i've got pics of my daughter's birds in the album on here under my profile. I still have trouble posting to this site... after all of these years.

I broke a 2 year drought with an awesome tom. 9 3/4" beard, 20+ lb 1 1/4 spurs! Felt good to sling him over my shoulder after so long.

I did okay last year ~ success rate at 87.5% for myself and 66.6666666% for those who I took out and that 1 or 33.333333333% decided not to shoot at the several opportunities I called in. Was his choice.

or in other words

I shot 7 birds for 8 tags I had. (Only 1 Jake and that was a mistake - he fooled me good!)
I called in birds for all 3 other hunters but only two took birds. One was a 23 lb 5 oz dandy and dangit - I missed for a double with that kid again - 2 years in a row andshe no longer gets 1st shot.....
JW

My past dreams


My bearded hen shot on my 20th anniversary of turkey hunting in Upper Mich. and the 3rd double beard tom I saw shot on my 10th year in WI.
I am going on 28 or 29 yrs......

I had three come in, all draggin beards. Took the first one that stopped. The other two ran 10 yards and stopped. Wish we could shoot more than one a day because i wouldve dumped one of them.

shot 3 nice toms and a huge jake that I thought was a tom last year... 20lb jake!

Well with close to 30 yrs experience chasing these birds I missed 3 times int he last 2 years while hunting with my daughter.

I get to dang excited! then I just blow a hole in the dirt. My 30 yr old kid on the other hand is 2 for 3. Oh and she don't get first shot this year.

She sent me a ringtone for my Iphone of a hen yelping and then shotgun blasts like 5 tto 7 in a row and then the tell Gobbling which she informed me "Hey ya missed ~ again!"
So no 1st shot for her.
Course it will be quite silent as I am using a bow with her this yr. She is back up.

And I expect for us to have the birds on the ground by 4/22 if not opening of 4/21!

JW

Nice birds!

Heres what im working on. Waiting for slate and sound boards!