RE: Team 3 - Just Chasin Tail
 

This is an official "Putt Bomb." From now on, every sound you make on a call will sound like a warning Putt to every turkey around you. Since Buckeye called you guys the "favorite" you got bombed first. Sorry boys... I can't even get all my team members on board, I have to try new tactics.:D:D:D

RE: Team 3 Turkey Contest
 

Sorry guys. I have been out on buisness justgot back last week. things are crazy. work, selling my house, finding a new one. List goes on. I like the name. sorry it took so long. I will be here more often.

RE: Team 3 Turkey Contest
 

Is it April 14th yet?

RE: Team 3 Turkey Contest
 

Hey guys, figured that I would check in. My new BowTech 82nd Airborne should be in sometime this coming week but I won't be picking it up until next Monday. I can't wait to get her and hit the woods.

Last evening I looked out my bay window and saw two large bodied deer standing in a green field off the edge of our side yards (appeared to both be bucks), so this evening I decided to keep and eye out for them. Well, they didn't show up but a group of turkeys walked, two long beards and four jakes. These birds weren't as big as the one I have on my wall, and I am sure that I could find better birds around here, but they are a good option if my usual hot spots are slow. They appeared to have 6"-8" beards but they did have some big bodies! Yelp, yelp, yelp.....gobble gobble gobble :D

RE: Team 3 Turkey Contest
 

good deal BM. when the season opens you are our ringer:D

RE: Team 3 Turkey Contest
 

I watch a Tom in KY this morning for 15 mins, he was a strutting and gobbling:D

I heard them Gobble all morning[8D]

RE: Team 3 Turkey Contest
 

Awwww come on Frank, don't do that to me. We all know what happens when I post big buck pics before season starts and people start telling me that its "my year":eek: :D

RE: Team 3 Turkey Contest
 

Well it has to be you year some year right;) I have faith in ya.:) By the way is April 26th here yet. Also I am going to Wyoming this year on my first ever Merriam turkey hunt. I am jacked.[8D]

RE: Team 3 Turkey Contest
 

We'll we are on the board!

RE: Team 3 Turkey Contest
 

Congrats Scott, great bird, beautiful picture, and way to put us on the board!!!:)

Well guys, this morning my sisters boyfriend wanted me to go with him to look for some spots for his younger brother, him, and I to do some turkey hunting this year and to say that we got in to the birds would be an understatement. We started the morning off on his property. We parked on a gas line that runs across the top of a ridge which is lined in hardwoods. We parked the truck, rolled down the windows, and we were going to try an owl hoot to see if we could hear any birds but before we could even get the windows the whole way down the woods lit up. Two gobblers were going nuts about 100 yards straight down the hill from us. We listened for awhile when another bird lit up on the other side of the ridge from these birds, then another bird gobbled back the ridge behind us a few hundred yards, then a very faint, very very deep gobble came out from the bottom on the ridge about 200 yards below the first two that we heard. We sat there just listening to these 5 birds going crazy when I heard leaves crunching about 60 yards to the side of the truck when a group of 4 longbeards started walking across the ridge towards these birds from in front of us. 9 different birds from what we could tell. We were pumped. Next, we headed to another section of property that we have permission to hunt. We got out of the truck and crow called down into a valley of pine trees but didn't get an answer so we went to the other side of the hill and let out a crow call and we heard several birds gobble from the field below us. We moved around a bit and could see a bird strutting in the field. I watched the bird with my binos as my buddy let out another crow call and we heard gobbles, but it wasn't that bird. At this point we decided to sneek out the ridge to get a better look into this little field. Well, we get there and see 5 longbeards in full strut with one being an absolute monster. At this point we were probablly around 400 yards away so I couldn't see his beard, but he is definetly by far the largest bodied bird that I have ever seen. The 3 gobblers he was with all had full fans so they weren't jakes, and he was nearly twice their size. If I had to guess, I would say he was an upper 20lb bird, maybe 28 or 29 pounds! We kept our eyes on them and noticed that they had two hens with them, at this point we look out the ridge that we are on to our left and notice a hen walking up a fourwheeler trail, while watching her my buddy says "whats the black spot up and to the right of her in the brush?" Sure enough, another longbeard is on a bench on the hill in full strut. We decided to back out and just let them be and when we get back to the truck, we hear the valley of pines that we tried a crow call in come alive with atleast three more birds gobbling.
The last spot we checked was a piece of SGL's. We pull in and just glass the back end of a clover field and there are about 20 birds in the back corner with a few strutters in the mix (a bunch of hens though). We stopped back at his new house and when we pulled in there were two more gobblers about 100 yards behind his back yard gobbling. I get home and have the 3 gobblers from my property strutting in my back yard.

Today was a day for the books, and if it is any inclination on how season is going to go then I am PUMPED! I had to have heard over 500 gobbles this morning and saw over a dozen longbeards strutting!