Got a couple more pics

congrats guys! Thurs am can't get here soon enough

Nice job guys, Saturday can't come soon enough!
-Jake

Thursday can't get here quick enough!

I hope it works out for you on Thursday. Go get em!!!

Im so pumped for thursday! Switched my days off so i dont have to work thursday! Had to work a monday so hopefully its worth it lol

Go get em Tee!!!

Same to you!

Go roll some heads partner!!! Give em a dirt nap.

I hear ya, hopefully I can get my second bird this weekend. If I do I'm done in Mo. Gonna try and get my wife on a bird too this weekend.

T minus 21 hours! Probably wont sleep a wink tonight. Weather shifted so it looks like a decent morning, wind gusts to 15 but ive been out in more. Gotta run to wally world tonight as i cant seem to find my box call. Think it got lost or is buried in a box after the move. Today at work will probably drag but i hope not!

Hope it flies by for ya, I know its worse than a kid waiting to open presents on Christmas morning. Good luck Tee and smack one down.

So far its going along good!

I should be back out and at it Friday morning to fill tag number 2.
I still have never gotten a multi-bearded turkey or even a bearded hen.
But then again, I'll probably just shoot anything other than a jake or hen.

Heard one gobble this morning. Kind of kickin myself for not moving in on him. Only the first day!

Well, not a good start for me.. had a long beard come in Opening AM... held up a bit... I took the shot and must have rushed.. miss!!!! Ugh.. 1st miss in a few years and in about 15 birds... oh well... Went back this am.. had some going, but went over onto posted property where I can't go and didn't have time to play with them before work. Hoping to go out again in am w/ one of my daughters to give it another try..
Very disappointed in myself for the whiff... wasn't the largest bird, but definately a tom... sorry to disappoint. Give me some time ;)

Connected this AM with my 7 year old daughter with me!!! Her first time having any action. never made a peep on roost. gobbled sporadically on ground. Set up on him and got him coming.. hung up around 60 yards.. finally broke and leveled him at 35 yards.

22lb
1.25" spurs
10" beard
Your score is 22 + 12.5 + 12.5 + 20 = 67" />

I tagged out this weekend with two birds in Maryland. Father is still visiting for the weekend so I'll put up all the details later today!

Congrats on the birds.

I've seen nothing but hens all week. Be back out Wednesday. Hoping to tag out.

Congrats you guys! Ive been hopeless here. So wet in certain areas that the birds have stopped using those areas for now. Although i got permission to hunt a nee spot tomorow! Hoping to at least see one!

Good Luck Tee! I have faith.. I hope to get out to try to fill tag #2 later this week.
There was another gobbling good on the way out w/ my bird Sat. I'll let the spot rest after hunting it Thurs-Sat. Get back in there Wed...

Here is a pic of my 7 year old daughter, Grace, with my bird from this weekend. She has been a couple times before, but only heard them gobble on the roost.
This was her first experience with a bird coming in, and boy did he put on a show... She was very patient as this was a tough bird to call in and sat like a stone.. so proud. She went nuts after the shot!
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Congrats on a great bird. Great pic with your daughter!!!

I saw 6 birds Saturday morning. 3 hens, 2 Jakes and one nice gobbler with an 8 inch beard that my neighbor ended up shooting about 300 yards from my set up. Will be back out wednesday morning!
-Jake

I'll be back at it tomorrow and Thursday before the rain returns. Hoping to tag out.

Ill be out again tomorow morning before work.hoping this nice weather will get them moving to my area. Normally does around this time of year

had a few going this am... but they went down far on posted property... i'll try to get at em Saturday again.

Well last weekend for me. The birds here are giving me a fit. Seems like the gobbling lull has hit pretty hard. Going to give it a last hurrah and hopefully score on my second bird. Good luck to everyone else that's hunting.

Matchbook scored again with a WI bird. Roughly 20# and change, 7/8" spurs, and 9.5" beard.shot 8:15 am today. Pics and stuff will be up tomorrow or Sunday.

Way to go MB54 - I struck out on both my Season 3 and my Fort McCoy. But I am back out tomorrow. Had some family duties - glad I did them - but dangit its turkey season.

And I am gone now till May 27th. I have not had the time to load those photos of my MI hunt. The days are just flying by.

JW

Well, my 2014 season is over. I hunted 7 days this spring in OK, IL, and WI. OK and IL were new properties that I have never hunted or stepped foot on. The WI property is the only one that I have hunted before. I filled 5 tags this spring and should have gone 6 for 6. The only tag I didn't fill was an IL tag on a 2 day hunt. I came really close though the last day 10 min. before our 1:00 deadline. I finally patterned the birds and knew that they were really henned up still. Only gobbles I heard on the ground both days were after 12:30. I did have their route figured out though and if I had 1 more day I'm sure I would have connected. Still can't complain though and can't wait to hit that property again next year. I'll also be guiding in OK, and possibly in IL and again so I'm hoping to extend my time in the woods and help get a few more turkeys killed. This season went by too fast imo. Here's the last bird of my season - a nice 3 yr old with a lot of red in his feathers - common to the turkeys in this area. Called him in from about a 1/4 mile for some excitement. His beard was only 9-5/8" but very thick - probably the thickest I've ever taken.

Congrats on a great bird. Well my season is done, good luck to everyone that is still after em.

Hunters Name: jmedenf
State the bird was harvested: OH
Date of Kill: 5/15/14
Time: 5:18 PM
Method of Take" Shotgun (Marlin Model 55 Goosegun 36")
Species: Eastern
Sex: Male
Lbs 14 Oz: 8
Rt Spur Length 1/4"
Lft Spur length 1/4"
No of Beards: 1
Length 4 7/8"

Your score is 14.5 + 2.5 + 2.5 + 9.75 = 29.25

More pics. Just a little jake.

Hey congratulations JM and congratulations to all those I have missed. Probably wondering where the heck I am.....well I have been hunting and hunting very hard. I have little to show for but worn out ole body. The weather has been horrendous.
But I do have one more and I need to get the other pictures loaded. I have 2 weeks left to hunt.
After a long 2 days - 22 lbs 10 0z pulled him back at me from 317 yards away. He entered this field I was sitting. I am glad I moved and I only moved as I was stone cold - the weather is nasty and I am wearing 4 layers and still cold. So I moved my setup to warm up.
Spurs 3/4 and 11/16 beard 9.5. Once I got him turned around it was a slow stroll until he saw the decoys. The wind was high and blowing. It did snow, hail, sleet, least it didn't thunder but then again lightning would have meant warm weather.
For the 1st time I did not get a bird at Fort McCoy nor a season 3 or 4 in zone 1 of WI. And here in zone 5 -man all I have been seeing or get to come in is jakes. I do hunt more than the averge guy so I do pass on them. I am retired! But certainly feelmy age today! Think this might be a run and gun day as it is just above freezing. It is mid month of May isn't it?

Out the door I go.
JW

Today is the last day here in Ohio. Already filled my tags, but may go out and try to call one in one last time this evening for a friend still trying for his first. Called one in for my younger brother Friday but he started putting at about 45 yards in thick brush and walked away. This was his first year turkey hunting.

Hunted the same spot Thursday when I shot the jake. He was my first afternoon bird. I walked in and sat down for less than ten minutes and he gobbled about 70 yards or so away. He came right to me. I should have waited another minute or so for him to come closer. Got a few pellets in the breast.

Anyone else on the team still hunting?

Didn't see or hear a single bird yesterday. Season done.

I did manage to call in a nice sized coyote to within about 20 yards and my friend I was calling for dropped her. Will post a pic later.

Nothing wrong with that JM... I have been out sporadically the last 2 weeks with very little luck. I have been crazy busy with work and coaching my 2 daughters different softball teams along with my older one's all star team.
we did manage to take a jake Sunday am with both of my daughters with me... That was a first... never have I had them both with me.
This bird and another gobbled very sporadically on roost... never made a peep when they hit the ground... waited with 2 inpatient kids for about half an hour and called everyone once and a while with no answer... trying to tell them we had to be patient to see if they would give away their location so we could adjust the set up from there... also told them that sometimes they come in silent. I thought for sure they were toms based upon the sound of gobbles and the silent treatment.
well about the time I said that I looked over to right and I see a red head coming up over the knob where I least expected them to.
we couldn't tell if a tom or jake at first. When he went behind a big tree we spun the gun to the right and got on him when he stepped out at about 20 yards... Jake... oh well, hunting with a 7 & 9 year old girl and having the poor weather and bad luck we have had this year, we let him have it... the girls had a blast.
16lb 6 oz
3.5" beard
1/4" spurs
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This won't count after reading the rules since I am not in the picture.

The coyote I called in for my neighbor Sunday attached.