Team 3 The Turkey Thugs
05-07-2011, 06:18 PM
#81
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Quality, KY
Posts: 135
Here are a couple of pics of my second bird. Stats were again:
21 lbs. 5oz.
9" beard
1-3/16" & 1-1/4" spurs
Your score is 21.3125 + 11.875 + 12.5 + 18 = 63.6875
21 lbs. 5oz.
9" beard
1-3/16" & 1-1/4" spurs
Your score is 21.3125 + 11.875 + 12.5 + 18 = 63.6875
Last edited by jondoe; 05-09-2011 at 05:52 AM.
05-07-2011, 07:04 PM
#82
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Illinois
Posts: 290
Congratulations JW and Jondoe on your kills. Nice birds! Jondoe, we will have it on record asap. My girlfriend is out of town and she does the posting for me. She will be back sometime Monday, I think.
Turkman
Turkman
05-09-2011, 05:54 AM
#85
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Quality, KY
Posts: 135
Guys I made a measurement error on my second bird. After showing the beard to a cousin this weekend I was questioned on the length of it actually being 10". My buddy that I went with measured it and I took his word. Well, he was an inch too long. The beard was 9" instead of 10". I have corrected the posted that I made and the score.
05-10-2011, 02:30 PM
#87
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Cortland NY USA
Posts: 129
Team 3 one from NY
Filled a tag on Friday, May 6th. Short and sweet hunt with Paul Walling . We roosted these gobblers on state land just south of Cortland in the town of Virgil. Went in the next morning, and were able to set up 125-150 yards from them. I was on point, while Paul set up 50 yards behind to handle calling chores. We were both running mouth calls that Paul had made himself (PD Turkey Calls). There was a pair of gobblers that gobbled well, and a group of birds that were located way down along the bank. Once they came off the roost, I never made another call, Paul literally roped this gobbler in, and right in front of me. The second gobbler was coming but had not crossed up onto the flat we were on. The gobbler put his head up, within range, and the Remington 11-87 roared. The gobbler was a very solid two year old, weighing in at 18.75 lbs, 8.5” beard, 7/8” & 13/16” spurs. At 5:50AM, the hunt was a quick one. Paul and I team tag quite often, and it has filled many tags. We continued on, in hopes of me repaying the favor for Paul. We were unable to raise a gobbler in the several places we spent time in.
NWTF Score= 52.6250
NWTF Score= 52.6250
Last edited by mookyj; 05-16-2011 at 01:09 PM.
05-11-2011, 12:59 PM
#88
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Cortland NY USA
Posts: 129
#2 from NY
Hunted the front of our property this morning under the advisement of my wife Lee, who spotted a big gobbler in the field next to our property the evening before. I roosted there that night, but could not raise a bird anywhere. This morning I set up in our north end, next to that same field. Lee had to be to work early, and would not be able to join me for the morning hunt. Beautiful sunny morning, and very quiet. So quiet you could hear insects burping. Not a gobble to be heard anywhere.
At 5:30am a hen cut and cackle a little bit on the roost. 5:50am, I spot two hens fly down to the opposite end of the field a few hundred yards away. Dead silent for the next hour. Several times, I nearly decided to pack it in, and just head into work. I made only a few calls using a PD mooky screamer 3 mouth call and a slate. 6:30am a hen scolds me, and we have a short argument, four volleys of conversation to be exact. Five minutes later, two hens appear 80 yards out, looking for me. Shortly after, a fan tail appears over the horizon, followed quickly by three more hens, with a sixth hen loitering out in the middle of the field by herself. Moments later the group closed the gap, and the girlfriends got their boyfriend in to some trouble. 6:40am I had the gobbler down.
Gobbler weighed 20.5 lbs, swung a 9.5” beard, and sported 1” spurs.
NWTF Score= 59.5000
At 5:30am a hen cut and cackle a little bit on the roost. 5:50am, I spot two hens fly down to the opposite end of the field a few hundred yards away. Dead silent for the next hour. Several times, I nearly decided to pack it in, and just head into work. I made only a few calls using a PD mooky screamer 3 mouth call and a slate. 6:30am a hen scolds me, and we have a short argument, four volleys of conversation to be exact. Five minutes later, two hens appear 80 yards out, looking for me. Shortly after, a fan tail appears over the horizon, followed quickly by three more hens, with a sixth hen loitering out in the middle of the field by herself. Moments later the group closed the gap, and the girlfriends got their boyfriend in to some trouble. 6:40am I had the gobbler down.
Gobbler weighed 20.5 lbs, swung a 9.5” beard, and sported 1” spurs.
NWTF Score= 59.5000
Last edited by mookyj; 05-16-2011 at 01:07 PM.
05-11-2011, 08:16 PM
#89
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Toronto Ontario Canada
Posts: 1,796
Hi Team.
I got out for my 1st hunt of the year on Monday. I had a good friend with me so I put him in my blind overlooking cut corn because he had never bagged a turkey before. Of course he goes and shoots my bird, he got a nice two yr old. I can't complain, he lets me hunt his marsh for ducks and deer. But now that he has a tom under his belt I won't be putting him in my spot anymore!
I still have till the end of the month. I got skunked last year so this year I will poke at any legal bird, I figure you can expect some points from me, even if it is only a jake.
Cheers
I got out for my 1st hunt of the year on Monday. I had a good friend with me so I put him in my blind overlooking cut corn because he had never bagged a turkey before. Of course he goes and shoots my bird, he got a nice two yr old. I can't complain, he lets me hunt his marsh for ducks and deer. But now that he has a tom under his belt I won't be putting him in my spot anymore!
I still have till the end of the month. I got skunked last year so this year I will poke at any legal bird, I figure you can expect some points from me, even if it is only a jake.
Cheers