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Soooo true, just great being out there. But now I gotta go back to workso I can get rested up.;) This hunting a few days in a row is hard work.:)Now I get to sleep in till 5:15 too instead of getting up at 3:45.

But I'll be back at it this weekend.

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It doesn't do us any good in this contest, but I finally got one(with a shotgun[&:])The birds in my area are not bowhunting turkeys.:D

I finally got a bird to come within range. This has been the tuffest year turkey hunting I and a lot of guys I know have had. I roosted a couple of birds last night. I heard the most gobbling ever with birds going to roost. They didn't quit till 8:45. So I was pumped for the morning. The closest one I roosted started gobbling at 5:20. He gobbled pretty good on the roost and then flew down the hill (I was on top of the hill, where he likes to strut). I called him back up, but he was one ridge over from me and would not budge. He would gobble every once in a while and then moved off.

I then went after 2 others that were gobbling down the ridge. By the time I got there they had moved off to the neighbors field. I could see them strutting in the field with 2 hens, one hen had a beard too. I watched them until they moved off into the woods.

I then went back up to get my dekes and move to another area. I figured I would give one more call to see if anything was in the area. Before I was was done the birds cut me off, and they were CLOSE, just over the rise of the hill. I sat down next to the closest tree, which was about half as wide as me.:)In a couple of seconds three jakes came running over the hill. With the weather supposed to be nasty tomorrow and that being my last day I figured I might as well end it. At 25 yards the lead jake went down in a heap and never even flopped.

He scores 31.625.

RE: the Great team 8 thread
 

Right on John! Nothin wrong with a jake!

My season starts Wednesday so hopefully I can score.

Hunting with a buddy all week, toms henned up bad.Gobbled like crazy on the roost then they had tight lips as soon as there feet hit the ground.

Oh well..... tis hunting.

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Congrats JM! It worked out for you, that is great! Awesome pics man.

Good luck lrhuntr, shoot one that scores about 200;)

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Thanks Kyle, I really liked how they turned out. Since there was nobody else around, I set the camera on a rock and positioned the turkey and started the timerthen ran overand got inposition.:)

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Man I can't even beat the timer when I'm a foot away posting a form pic[:@]:D

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Well I got good news and bad news.

Good news is that I killed one, bad news (atleast for the team) is that it fell to the bang-stik. [&:]

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=2677261&mpage=11

Would have killed it with the bow but my release loop broke this mornin' and I didn't have time to fix it. The bow was just not shooting well after that and I wasn't very confident with it.

I knew the birds where there and I wanted to get on em'. Plus they are calling for rain the next couple days so I fiqured I better just grab the gun and do it.

Hope all you guys are lucky enought to score with the bow. I would have loved to.

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Way to go Lance, I did the same thing last weekend. It was gonna be my last day so I caved in with the gun also.

Nice bird.

RE: the Great team 8 thread
 

Is everybody on our team done chasin em?

We didn't do so good.:(