Team 8 Longbeard Mafia
05-08-2011, 05:48 PM
#131
Spike
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: S.W. Virginia
Posts: 94
Well folks my season is over.
And I didn't score any birds. But that is how it goes.
If it wasn't the heavy rain and/or high winds it was the flooding making it near impossible to go hunting.
On the few day I did hunt I had a good time other than 2 when I didn't here no one gobble or see any birds.
The turkeys in the areas I hunt need a brake from this terrible nesting weather. The population is just getting lower and lower.
I went to MDC website and compare the number for the last 8 years I think and there was one common theme every year less bird being harvested and the jake percentage went from around 35% to 10-15% in counties I hunt. That tells me the hatch has been just awful!
But I am not giving up!!! I will be out there next year and hope the weather doesn't give us what we got this.
I would like to thank Nauticstar for stepping up and taking the team caption spot when I was/am unable to be on here very much due helping family and friends escape the flood waters. Which are now going down thank goodness. But now the clean up begins!!!
For those still hunting get after them!!! We need to try and take this thing!!!!
If your season is still in reply as to when your season closes so we can root you on!!!
And I didn't score any birds. But that is how it goes.
If it wasn't the heavy rain and/or high winds it was the flooding making it near impossible to go hunting.
On the few day I did hunt I had a good time other than 2 when I didn't here no one gobble or see any birds.
The turkeys in the areas I hunt need a brake from this terrible nesting weather. The population is just getting lower and lower.
I went to MDC website and compare the number for the last 8 years I think and there was one common theme every year less bird being harvested and the jake percentage went from around 35% to 10-15% in counties I hunt. That tells me the hatch has been just awful!
But I am not giving up!!! I will be out there next year and hope the weather doesn't give us what we got this.
I would like to thank Nauticstar for stepping up and taking the team caption spot when I was/am unable to be on here very much due helping family and friends escape the flood waters. Which are now going down thank goodness. But now the clean up begins!!!
For those still hunting get after them!!! We need to try and take this thing!!!!
If your season is still in reply as to when your season closes so we can root you on!!!
05-09-2011, 03:19 AM
#132
Spike
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: South Alabama or LA
Posts: 98
That is a great attitude to have Steve. Family and friends always come first. You can hunt turkeys the rest of your life. You are a good man! Keep your head up and we will all get after them next season. Maybe the waters will recede enough for the hens to have a successful nest. Take care. Best....
05-14-2011, 04:55 PM
#133
Spike
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: S.W. Virginia
Posts: 94
Well, I hate to come here and say it team 8,but alas I've been skunked again and thats two seasons running. I'm not happy about it at all,but it's been tough hunting here for everybody from what Ive heard. We had a really hard winter year before last which I feel took a large toll on the birds not to mention there's so much food in the woods still from a bumber crop the birds are spread out. Winter before last we had at least 12 inches of hard frozen snow on the ground where I hunt for about 6 weeks straight and I think we lost alot of birds. Better luck next year I guess.
05-15-2011, 06:49 PM
#134
Spike
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: South Alabama or LA
Posts: 98
Well, I hate to come here and say it team 8,but alas I've been skunked again and thats two seasons running. I'm not happy about it at all,but it's been tough hunting here for everybody from what Ive heard. We had a really hard winter year before last which I feel took a large toll on the birds not to mention there's so much food in the woods still from a bumber crop the birds are spread out. Winter before last we had at least 12 inches of hard frozen snow on the ground where I hunt for about 6 weeks straight and I think we lost alot of birds. Better luck next year I guess.
05-24-2011, 01:48 PM
#136
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: SW Iowa
Posts: 479
Sorry team I have not been on in a long time but I do have 2 birds to register and post pics. Both birds taken in Iowa with my TK 2000. I am headed to neb for the last 5 days of the season there so I will have birds to register next week. I have 3 tags for there so we will see how things go. With being sick and work I have not been able to get on a pc till now so I will try to get pics and scores up.
05-24-2011, 02:50 PM
#137
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: SW Iowa
Posts: 479
Bird #1 Eastern - Iowa
24 1/2 lbs
10 1/2" beard
7/8" r spur
7/8" L spur
Taken with my tk2000 muzzleloader
NWTF SCORE 63
Bird # 2 Eastern - Iowa
25 1/2 lbs
11" beard
1 5/16" R spur
1 5/16 L spur
Taken with my tk2000 muzzleloader
NWTF SCORE 73.75
Having trouble getting the pics uploaded but will keep trying.
24 1/2 lbs
10 1/2" beard
7/8" r spur
7/8" L spur
Taken with my tk2000 muzzleloader
NWTF SCORE 63
Bird # 2 Eastern - Iowa
25 1/2 lbs
11" beard
1 5/16" R spur
1 5/16 L spur
Taken with my tk2000 muzzleloader
NWTF SCORE 73.75
Having trouble getting the pics uploaded but will keep trying.
Last edited by JW; 06-20-2011 at 02:36 PM.
05-26-2011, 08:22 AM
#139
Spike
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: South Alabama or LA
Posts: 98
05-30-2011, 09:55 AM
#140
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: SW Iowa
Posts: 479
Well team 3 more to add to the list.
Merriams out of neb.
Bird #1
22lbs
9" beard
1" r spur
3/4" L spur
NWTF 57.5
Merriams
Bird #2
19lbs
8 1/2" beard
3/4" r spur
1" L spur
NWTF 53.5
I will email the pics to u captian as this pc will not upload for some reason.
Merriams
Bird #3
19.5lbs
9 1/2" beard
1" R spur
1" L spur
NWTF 58.5
Merriams out of neb.
Bird #1
22lbs
9" beard
1" r spur
3/4" L spur
NWTF 57.5
Merriams
Bird #2
19lbs
8 1/2" beard
3/4" r spur
1" L spur
NWTF 53.5
I will email the pics to u captian as this pc will not upload for some reason.
Merriams
Bird #3
19.5lbs
9 1/2" beard
1" R spur
1" L spur
NWTF 58.5
Last edited by JW; 06-20-2011 at 02:45 PM.