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I'm not going to have a problem with anyone who wants to step up to the plate. I'm a rookie as well and I myself would be confident in handling the captain duties. However as I said earlier I know that I would struggle to keep up with it this year.

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I'm a rookie also. I would not have any problem with being captain during normal times. As I've said before, just not able. I will not have a any problem with anyone who steps up to the plate.

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agreed if ezbagr wants to step up, thats fine with me.

also, Shoo tum in daface is pretty kick ass!

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Well team, it looks as if we have a name. Let our name be known to all teams!

Kentucky season is still 3 weeks away. DANG IT! Anyone here already started or starting sooner?

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Welcome Rabbitman.

Im cool with anyone that wants to take the Capatin position.

Team name sounds good also.

Thnx JW, you are an animal, well done keeping this all going bud



jondoe my first hunt will be April 11th, hunting NC for a few days. Then Ihead for 5 other states, Im really anxious to get out and get some arrows in some birds with no ground blind, and all bow hunts.

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March 28 here in Tn, then to Va April 11.

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Well that's a good amount of votes for our name. I say we go with it.

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Anyone hunting yet? Ours starts this Saturday, but giving tons of rain.........just what i wanted!! lol

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beginning of may is when i go

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Our season in SD starts on April 11th. Only a couple weeks away!!!!

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I am here to share with my team what I saw on our farm today. While we were in search of a calf that had slipped our grips I saw not one, not two, not even three longbeards, but FOUR longbeards in our pasture field! While there were several other birds with them I can't help but think I am sitting on top of a hot spot come April 18th. Trust me, it will not get here soon enough with sightings like that.

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good luck jondoe

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My first hunt will be in NC opening day April 11th. Im heading down on the 9th to locate birds for a few days, and to film pre hunt stuff. Then back to MD for a week.

jondoe, sounds like you have a definate opportunity there, good luck.

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This is killing me! I watched two nice longbeards settle the score on who was boss yesterday afternoon in front of a few ladies. That was a first for me. Later I came back with the video camera in hopes of catching those birds back in the pasture field. I was disappointed that they had left, but was excited to see another gobbler with three hens feeding. I ended up with almost 15 minutes of footage. The last two or three minutes were of him strutting his stuff before entering the woods heading to roost.

Guys, I have a good feeling about this upcoming season!

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MAN! Your killing me! I haven't been able to get out and scout at all. All I've been able to do is watch the flock from a very long distance. Too far to tell what was what. But youth is this weekend and my buddy and I are taking his son out. Well be in my blind at sunrise Saturday morning.

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Leaving Thursday for NC to start my season. Will be there for 5 days. Then I head back to MD for the opener and off to 4 more states, cant wait, Im ready to get this party started.

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I can't wait to get this party started! Still have two weeks. I able to accompany my friend and his son this weekend for the youth hunt. Probably had something to do with needing my blind. Anyways, we had 8 hens fly down and scratch for a few minutes and then they headed off. Not much more than that. We only had 1 gobbler sound off once from neighboring property far off.

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Im just 3 Days away from oopening day here in South Dakota!!! Saw a nice group of gobblers the other night, I can barely take it anymore!!! Good Luck Everyone!

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Good luck! Still got 3 weks of slow,painful waiting here in NY...:(

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Leaving for NC in minutes, opening day is this Sat. Going to scout some fields on the 4 farms we have for birds and roost some tonight and tomorrow night. Game on!!

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Good luck!

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Anybody on team 22 got a bird on the ground yet????

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Well opening day finally arrived here in SD for me. Went out early Saturday morning, birds were gobbling from the roost nice and loud. I had 4 birds come in and stand 2 feet away from my blind, I unfortunately could not shoot out that side of the blind, I didnt have any of the windows open (im using a bow.) They gobbled like mad but never walked out in front. Had a few hang up just out of range. They must not have liked my set up. I had out two hen decoys. Might try something else next time. I have a B-Moble at home. Overall it was a great morning, lots of gobbling, and got to see a few more birds, and the Girlfriend got to go on her first hunting trip, all it was missing was an arrowed bird. Unfortuntely due to the holiday weekend and family commitments I was not able to get back out. Gonna give it another try tommorrow.

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SD Gobbler sounds like a good time even though you didnt bag a bird. My NC was a blast, but no bird for the first time in a few years, the birds were acting real goofy. Lots of great video footage. Opening morning we heard multiple gobblers on the roost. We set up on what we thought were multiple birds in one location. We started working them and had them coming hard gobbling like crazy. We realized there were more than 2, than 3, then we saw the coming through the hardwoods. We had 5 birds gobbling in unison coming right for us and the deeks. Once they were within 30 yards I could see the first 2 were jakes, BUMMER!! They came right in on our deeks, 8 yards from me for 20 minutes some were strutting, all were responsing to calls gobbling at the same time, was very cool. The finally worked their way off when 2 hens came in to the whole ruckuss, one hen had a 5" + beard. I was considering shooting her because Ive been looking to get a bearded hento add tomy mounts, but, being we had so much action the first 45 minutes I decided I would wait. We did see more Jakes that morning and more hens but no longbeards. Sat afternoon was a blow out, 30mph winds, rain, and temps dropped like 20 degrees. Mon morning we had lots of birds gobbling on the roost. We set up on one, he got quiet as soon as he hit the ground, we waited an hour and decided to try and locate another bird, none were responding to locater calls at all. One of us did connect on a gobbler at 12 yards with a bow, he flew right into the deeks. We didnt seeANY strutting action in any of the fields the entire 5 days we were there, and we only saw a few birds in the fields the entire trip, very unlike my past NC trips. I think we were a few weeks early this year. Md season opener is this Sat, hopefully I can connect. Going out tonight to try and roost some birds for Sat morning. Thats all for now.

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Well team, our season opener is in the morning. The weather looks great and the birds were sounding off this morning. I will be out in full force in the morning hoping to put our team on the board. If tomorrow does not see me tagging a bird, the rest of the week sees me on vacation. I will be out each and every day that the good Lord allows me.

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Good luck jondoe, looking forward to seeing you put our first bird up. I went out last night to one of my MD properties and roosted 4 birds in my honey hole. If the turkey Gods cooperate hopefully 1 will want to play tomorrow morning for the MD opener. Good luck to everyone.

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Well team, the hotspot that I have been keeping you up to date on paid off this morning. Shot this nice two year old at 6:50a.m. 22.46 lbs., 9-1/2" beard, and 3/4" spurs on both legs.

NWTF score = 56.5

I will try to get a full story typed up later.

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Very nice jondoe! Congrats.

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Congrats!

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Nice bird!! Congrats

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Awesome!!Great Bird!!!!

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congrats on the good bird

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Thanks team. I am still after another one to fill my tags.

Has anyone seen hide or hair of our captain? He has not submitted my bird for our team score yet.

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Caught this onthe main turkey page - Adrian Hare = Your score is 22 + 7.5 + 7.5 + 20 = 57

and I will send him your team link so he can get the picture here

JW

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Thanks Dave, I've been so busy and then driving across the country for 8 hours slows up time. The Ontario season opens Monday, so I hope to use a Tag or so on its upcoming but we have to shoot a show for the first couple days so I'm not sure if I will tag one or not at the start.

Who is the team captain here on this team ?

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Ok guys, headin out tomorrow to get to my hunting spot and gonna start huntin thursday morning. Gonna be the third season huntin for me but the first season that I will be on my own. Just hoping to get a little action
and learning more about this infection of so called turkey hunting.
I will try to check in every day and post scores if needed.
Time for the Shootemindaface team to turn up the wick-good luck in the coming few days.

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good luck Ezbagr

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Adrian again -58.00

he is deep into guiding and he did say he will post pictures

Ah the life of a Pro-staffer!

JW

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Scored on this double bearded toad yesterday in the rain. Had to work hard for him but he eventually gave in. He would get to about 75 yards and hang up, then walk away gobbling to 150 or 200 yards, would come back to 75 yards thendo the same thing.After he did this a 3rd time I decided it was time to try put the tree ninja sneak on him and move up to where he was hanging up. Worked like a charm.Have some footage ofthe killI will try and post later. Weighed 22.5 lbs, 10.75" beard, 1 1/8" and 1" spurs.

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now thats a dandy !

here's mine, sorry I had no idea the beard would not show up.