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Way to go Rockby, now we're in business on Team 24!
I've heard one gobble a day in the past two weeks here. This weekend is the last of the season and I'm hoping to get another and one for my son. Our sesason ends next Friday, so they need to get to moving and gobbling or else I'm only gonna have enough for a couple sandwiches. I can't believe the first weekend of the season we were surrounding by gobbling and haven't seen or heard a thing for weeks. |
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dang sounds like something has got them scared or something that the same thing happen here untill i found out that they was some one else hunting in my hunting grounds and i had to run themoff my propertyand now i'm hunting somewhere else and see if i can get one if i can i'll be really happy to post it on here
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hey team, Sorry but I was unsuccessful opening day. I heard 7 different birds but i also heard two shots:(. I had a bird about 120 yds away but he was with a hen. it was kinda cool though, i would call and she would mimic me then the tom would gobble. This happened 8 times in a 20 min period. I was hoping to bring the hen in looking for a fight and the tom would follow.
I wont be able to go again til sunday morning...wish me luck! |
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good luck zmschilliin hope you get that stupid tom to come in close enuff to blast him lol if not go and move your blind closer to where he comes out in the field in the wood line and then wait for him to come out your way
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Gotter 'er done Team!
Couple of us Canadians went down to Southern Ohio for thier opener. Nasty, nasty weather! Very tough conditions but I shot a nice longbeard on Thurs morning. Now it's time for a couple of Ontario birds for the Team ;) |
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thats good whats the score on it and i'll post it on the score board
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Another crappy, windy, rainy weekend here in Kansas. [:@] Saw a couple hens, but that was it. It's supposed to rain all week, so hopefully that means nice weather this weekend! I've got an itchy release finger! :)
How did everyone else fair this weekend? vmartin -- How was the hunting in Manhattan? Hopefully better than here in SE Kansas! |
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the weather was terrible, bad wind, rain, hot and muggy. it was very hard hunting this weekend. i hardly ever found a tom that could be called in.
we ended up having to use prescouted patterns and off beat tactics and stalking to get our birds, but somehow we came through. in total we killed 3 rio grande turkeys and 6 eastern turkeys. one tom weighed 25.5 pounds, another weighed 23 pounds, both had 1.25" spurs and 10 inch beards. one of the toms, his beard was unique as it wasthick as a broomand split in 2 directions. i hope the weather is good this next weekend. |
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congrats vmartin on your turkeys i went out yesturday and had a cuple of good size toms take and gobble at my call and then a hen came out and then thats when the figt broke out between them and then i watched and see if they will come my way or the other way well to puta long story short they went the other way afther fighting for about 2 hours on and off and then some one came in and scard them off so i gave up and came home and tried this morring and see if i can get them to come back out in to the field
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i like to watch them fighting dh1984, some times it is pretty comical to watch thier matrix kicks and stuff. friday was the one good morning for us and we watched one big tom fight 9 jakes away from a bunch of hens. the big tom breed atleast 4 hens in front of us, this went on from fly down untill 11:00. then things got too hot and the turkeys started to hide under trees to stay cool.
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yea i know its really comical to watch them fight but i wish i can take and got atleast one of them this morring but i'll get him one day when i go out again
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Hey were's all the scores Team! ;)Been busy but managed to upgrade my score with my second bird. First in Ontario. Posted it up already Captain. Pic included this time. :D
Now I have to shoot a real dandy to top 64.85! One more tag to go...........  |
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oh ok sounds good butdang thats somereallynice turkeys you goti been tring but not had any luck on getting one but give me time i think i got a week left and i'll try any thing to get one lol
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well thanks Captain. I was beginning to think no one on my Team cared about me :)At least one response ;)
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lol, you know we love you ontelk.i am still trying to recover from another weekend of hunting.
congrats on the turkeys! |
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Nice birds OntElk! I'm glad someone is having better luck than me. The only birds I've been seeing besides my decoys are the ones I see on my way to work in the mornings and those have been pretty scarce lately. I'm blaming it on the rain.
Went out Sunday afternoon to hunt a couple new spots and surprise surprise....it rained. Just a little bit, but it still rained.Then it cleared off to be nice and sunny late in the afternoon. Still didn't see anything though. :( I'm beginning to think my hunting buddy is bad luck.....(but don't tell him that!) :) |
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lol we all care about you ontelk this is a team thats care for every one on their team. same here kshunterchickin been blaming it on the rain every since i got a cold on the seacond day of turkey season
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lol. Thanks all!
I have to eat crow however because I missed congratulating other team members. I checked the standing and I see there is 4 other birds from our team been killed. CONGRATS! I imagine it is somewhere back in the 24 pages of responses but I'll just throw out a "good job" to whoever tagged so far. Go get 'em team. |
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I haven't checked up in a while guys. My season ended on the 1st and I have to say that while it wasn't a dissappointment, I was a little let down. Started strong with the bird the first Saturday, but after the first weekend we didn't really see or hear much. To top it off, I pulled up about 6:30pm past the house to the area I hunt in to check and make sure anyone wasn't hiding up there, and there were five jakes standing less than 30yds from the truck. They didn't even bother to run, they just stood there for a minute or so and walked away slowly. What a whopper of a way to end a season. But, all isn't lost, at least now we can pull out the Honda motorcycles and the four wheeler and ride the roads, trails and woods without worrying about scaring away any game.
Here's hoping we come out on top......I'll drink one for the team!! |
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Well....I still don't have any pictures to post. :( But, we do have a good story to tell.
Here's how it went down. I couldn't have done a better job retelling it. Mind you....once again, it rained. I think I'm just going to have to get used to turkey hunting in the rain.  ORIGINAL: BetterBirddogs Went out on Sunday early afternoon to a new spot that looks awesome. We're walking in and we spook a hen off the field. We keep going and get setup. (girlfriend want to set up right where we spooked the hen, that's important in a second) So we continue on down the corner of the field. We get set up and wait about 20 minutes and I call a little bit. A hen comes out about 300 yards to our west (left cuz we're facing NW). We then look up and there are some hens coming into the field about 400 yards on the other side of it. Then Rhonda looks NE and sees a big tom strutting (came out right where she wanted to sit ofcourse). He struts his way across the corn to the hens and then hes hung up. He struts in the same place for 2 hours so we decide to put the sneak on him. We abandoned ship and headed west down through a creek. We stopped to check on our boy periodically and he's still just strutting away in the same spot. We get all the way around and we start our way north on the last leg of the stalk and I crawl out the edge to get a visual. Well he's moved and he's strutting right to us!. I get Rhonda set up with the gun and the wait is on. After about 20 minutes and no turkeys moving through the trees we were in I decided to poke my head and get a look. Well we had a hen about 10 yards left of us and she putts and goes back out into the open. I continue to get to my knees to get a look and there's our boy about 20 yards away strutting facing away from us. How perfect right? Well I cluck at him a couple times and he gobbles instantly. I have Rhonda crawl up to me and I stand her up slowly behind this huge tree and tell her to get ready. I am on my knees next to her and she is set up. I cluck at him and he turns and struts straight into our laps. She tells me she's gonna wait for him to turn and then he does just like I scripted it. She's on him and she shoots! Clean miss at 20 yards.[:@] She hands the gun to me and I crawl out the edge and there he is at about 45 yards. Long shot with a 20 guage but I let one fly and he and he haram take off and go into the trees. Great hunt though. She cried all the way back to the blind. She is spoiled by success and has never missed to date. She'll get one. Sigh.....there is always next weekend. |
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dang thats not good kshunterchick but they are always next week to get one i went out on the last day and took a shot at oneand missed as useal but hey i had that came in and it didn't rain and i didn't get sick lol
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Howdy Team !
Finally checking in.... First of all, CONGRATS to all the other Team members who was lucky enough to score. I was lucky enough to give this bird a dirt nap this morning. Scott       |
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You are right dh1984, there is always next weekends, but the next weekends are quickly running out! Season ends here on May 31st. Is anyone else on our team still hunting?? I know vmartin is because he is in Kansas too.
After working Saturday morning and doing the family thing for a graduation in the afternoon, I'll be back at in on Sunday morning. I'm on a mission now to shoot that stinking tom I missed last week! |
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i am still out there kshunterchick. i am done guiding now and i am ready to go after my own 2 toms. so far we have killed 37 toms this year. i won't able to hunt this next weekend so i will be doing my hunting on the last weekend.
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This is what I have to date
-Team 24-------- 1-Beezer-1-1-59.0000----- 2-dh1984-------- 3-firekilla85-------- 4-kshunterchick-------- 5-lost horn-------- 6-OntElk-1-2-64.8500-58.0000---- 7-remingtonshooter1-------- 8-Rockby-1-1-66.4375----- 9-vmartin-1-2-70.1250-68.0000---- 10-wapitiScott-------- 11-zmschillin-------- -Total-4-6-Total 11 man 260.4125- Total all birds-386.4125 |
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Howdy gang.... just letting you all know that I killed a bird last friday....
Weighed 18 lbs., a 10 1/2 " beard and both spurs were only 3/4 " long. A beautiful Merriams. Scott Btw, I'd post pics, but everytime I try post them on this site I get nothing but grief and frustration...says my files are"too large" to download onto this place. Dang it !!![:@][:@] |
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Awesome Scott! I'm gonna take advantage of the long weekend and get me one if not two!
Good luck vmartin......sounds like you have your work cut out for you on the last weekend. Sounds as if you have had a very successful time guiding hunts though! |
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i am sorry jw. i didn't kill that tom that i was refering to earlier. that was one that someone killed while hunting with me. i will do all of my ownhunting on the last weekend of the season.
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vmartin - you had two birds listed - PM me with the correct score if any.
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well I didn't increase the score of my biggest bird . Instead I actually walked away from a longbeard to go kill a jake. :DWell a little more to it than that but in essence that's what happened. I had to go to the washroom real bad and so I left the gobbler. The night before I had an encounter with the jake on the roadside. He flew up into a pine tree right at the road edge on a front lawn. I tried to bust him over into the bush so I could hunt him the next morning if need be. Instead he turned and flew back across the road to another yard and then gobbled away at us. I told my buddy that I knew where he would eventually end up later in the morning and I might just have to go kill his arse for being so cheaky to us :D
8:50am he was 20 yds and got his payback.  |
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nice job team i been away for a while i got a new horse and i had to care for her and had to put up over 800 bales of hay in the barn to feed her and my other three horses this winter but congrats on the birds i'll try to keep check on here from time to time if i can
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i shot my bird this weekend, i will have to upload photos when i get home tonight.
this weekend was pretty good. i ended up killing my tom after spotting approx. 12 toms out in a corn field in 3 different groups. it was a hot day so they sat on the edge of the river in the shade. my buddy and i snuck a long ways through the river to come up out of the river right next to one group. eastern turkey 23 pounds 1-5/8", and 1-1/2" spur 12" beard length. total score: 67.5 |
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congrats martinok i'll take and post it
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congrats vmartin! i however wasn't as lucky as you this weekend. we saw some toms, but none were interested in our hens and never came in. very disappointing. better luck next year i guess! :)
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wapitiscott use photobucket if you have too. Make sure the pics get posted. we want to make sure we get your bird scored. The total is 54. Thanks
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