Yep, Turkey mode brotha. I was outta town tonight, took part in my very first calling contest and got completely star struck, then choked it big time on stage! haha I'm so dang pissed at myself. I've practiced non stop for the past week, pickin out the best diaphrams for each call, had em dad gum perfect man, then I blew it. The first person I saw when I got there was Doug Benefield, former world champion.......he was on letterman gobbling with preston pittman (youtube it, its awesome). Then low and behold here comes the legend himself, Eddie Salter. I shook Eddie's hand and was like a kid in a candy store. Then I heard somebody say "Hey Sadler", I looked over my shoulder and there was Sadler McGraw, 2009 Grand National Champ. The whole woodhaven Sting team was there. It was awesome man, but I sure wish I could've called like I do when I'm alone and relaxed, haha. Anyways, I'm thinkin about entering one this saturday at the bass proshop. Now that i got my first time jitters out of the way maybe I'll be able to concentrate and cut loose like I know I can. It was a hell of an experience just being around all those champions, really exciting!

Here is a picture from last Saturday. When you look at this picture it is hard to beleive that we got to 78 today.

Here's another picture from a different place I have.

After reading threw your team thread you are still missing paintbrush.

Please try to e-mail and Private Message one more time - the e-mail thingy was down here for a bit.

If he don't check in soon - we will replace.

Dave...JW

Hey everybody
First off, let me apoligize for being so darn late in getting registerd with the team! My computer crashed a few weeks back and it's taken me quite some time to get things back up since I'm not very computer savy! I'm glad JW emailed me to wake me up about this. Anyway, please excuse me for being so late, but I am here and ready to help win this thing! I promise to be much more involved with the team now!
I'll be hunting this year in Kansas, South Dakota, my home state of MN. and either Wisconsin or Nebraska. 1st hunt starts down in Kansas starting April 11th. I can wait to get at them!
Everthing that has been done so far about this team is just fine by me. Now lets go out and hand every other team a good whooping!

Bill

Ok guys, I just got done going thru all the posts on our thread and will pony up some of my stuff. I am a self taught turkey hunter that is still learning. I've been chasing these grand birds going on 22 years now. By far and away my favorite type of hunting bar none! My best bird to date is a SD. Merriams that went 23lbs 11 1/4" beard and 1 1/4" hooks. Took him 5 years back. I have one slam under my belt with a bunch of Easterns, Merriams, 2 Rios and 1 Osceola to date. Next year I hope to either do a grand slam in 1 year or go down to Mexico to get a Goulds. My main gun is a Browning Gold 3" .12 ga.with aPure gold .670 choke,shooting Hevi 13 2 oz. #6's. She is topped with a Leupold 1x4 scope. I also use a T/C Encore with both a .12 and .20 gauge barrels. I took one bird 2 years back with my Knight TK2000 muzzelloader.
I'll post a few pics tomorrow.

Alright, we're all here! Good to have ya paintbrush, impressive turkey resume as well!

I have been watching a group of 15 hens for about the last week in our alfalfa field and this morning 3 gobblers were following them. They wouldn't get any closer than about 50-75 yards. I took a trail cam over there to see if they are worthy of chasing. I am sure those 15 hens will make them an interesting hunt.

Calling for rain showers the first two days of the season! Excellent news. I know the fools on the neighboring hunting club wont get out in the rain, so I don't have to worry about them trying to call and sounding like a dying chicken. Birds should hit the fields those first two days, hopefully I can give a couple a bad headache.

Welcome Paint!!

Who is gonna "get this party started"? Our(my) season starts April 22nd. Been having 4-5 toms in the neighbors yard everyday for a few days now, which is about a 40 yard shot,lol.
dandbuck