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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Good luck lrhuntr, shoot one that scores about 200

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.

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

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.

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.

Is everybody on our team done chasin em?

We didn't do so good.