Season starts tomorrow. Got a few located. Temps are real warm which might make them shut down a bit. Hoping to get one in early and put him down before the heat gets unbearable.

Good luck on your hunt today and the rest of your season. How long is the season in Pa.?
Ray

4 weeks long.

Well, headed out at 3;30 am today for my last day of the season. Wind rain no gobbles. Finally at 9 i heard one gobble and could tell it was down in the corner of the feild. So with the nasty weather decided to try and slide down thru the pines to get on em. Crawled thru some thick wet crap for a couple hundred yards and got real close, couldn't hardly see anything and was tryin to get over to a little hole when i heard one start alarm putting. ducked down and spotted a red head!! Not much room to shoot, im soppen wet, its the last day and they're about to take off so wasnt gonna wait around to size him up. I shot and smoked him, ran out into the feild to see about 20 birds scatter. There's at least 3 nice toms on the prop, so now im pretty happy. Got up to the bird and MAN........was i dissapointed!!! Out of all the good birds out there i had to line up the smallest jake of the bunch!!! But he will taste a lot better than my tag and a few points for the team is better than none i guess.

here is his sorry numbers
eastern
13.75 lbs
4 in beard
.25 in spurs (just bumps really)

had the boy hold him so he looks bigger :s4:







think Jrbsr is kinda busy so i'll post the score. Thanks guys and good luck!!

please welcome your new team member matchbook 454. Captain please pm him.

Tough week hunting Public for a total of 1 Tom. Positive is, it will take a real big Tom to upgrade.
Kansas Eastern 24# 13oz, Rt Spur 1", Lt Spur 1 1/8, Beard 10 1/2". Total of 67.0625.
Picture of myself with my Buddies 15 year old son, who hunted with me. I still have some tags left, so we'll see how that goes.

Nice work Iowajaybird!!!!! Great bird!!!

Good job to both of you guys. Good to see the points going on the board. Iowa Jaybird, I do most of my hunting on public land, which makes a bird like yours that much sweeter. Good luck on your future hunts.
Ray

I'm checking in. Here are 2 birds I have down already this year. I will need some time for pics of beard/spurs with a ruler though but will get them unless I get a bigger bird this weekend!!! 1st bird shot 2nd season Carrol cty., IL 1st day out 7:40 a.m. 22.5 lbs, 7/8"x7/8" spurs, 11" beard. 2nd bird 4th season Carrol cty., IL 2nd day of hunt - 18.5 lbs, 3/4"x3/4" spurs and 9.5" beard. Pics and stories have been posted on seperate threads but here are some more pics.
Bird#1 NWTF score 62


Bird#2 NWTF score 52.5

Matchbook, they are keeping track of totals for teams also, so enter all your kills. Good season. Keep it up.