I am quite sure that this bear is staying in the area. I have seen an old pile of his/her droppings while walking in along side of the old dirt road. As a general rule bears do not mess with people and I am hopeful this will be the case. I am hoping the it does not bother my blind as well. Last year in a different area a bear was in my blind one night/day that I was not there. He did some small amount of damage but nothing I could not repair.. If he shows himself to me I will pack up out of there. But, for now I want to give those birds a try..

Well team I hope this don't let you down after the last one but here is another bird for the board. 2nd bird from Nebraska, eastern with shotgun.
Went down this weekend to take my friends son out and we doubled this morning at 6:50am. I was not planning on taking a bird just had my gun for back up if needed. Wanted to save my remaining tags for out west to shoot merriams. set up on these birds yesterday only to have 80 cow calf pairs mess us up so we moved locations on the birds and had the farmer checking cows mess that up also. So back at it this morning with a new set up and plan. Put out a hen and strutting decoy just over the hill from the roost. they started gobbling so I announced our location to them then went silent for the next 30 min or so. After they finally flew done they landed on the back side of the hill and went north all the way around the hill. once they got site of the fake strutter they ran in and put a good show on for us till I had the young man with me shot his first ever gobbler. I had not even picked my gun up yet but after the remaining bird decided to start stomping on the down bird I went ahead and filled my 2nd neb tag.
SE Neb.
eastern
shotgun
6:50am
22 lbs
10 1/4" beard
right spur 1 3/16"
left spur 1 1/16"
One tag left for a merriams this next weekend.

Congrats again camokenny! Nice turkey and story as well! I am getting ready to post it for you..

camokenny's turkey!! You guys just keep on slamming them while the rest of us are finding the hunting harder this year.. keep up the great work!






Your score is 22 + 11.872 + 10.625 + 20.5 = 64.997

Good Luck to everyone that is out there still hunting!

Some of those other teams has some big guns still trying to up their team scores and hopefully we will stay in the lead and become the 2014 HNI Champs.. Then we all will get to try and stay in the lead to be champs again! That would be great if we can hang on to the lead until this contest is over!! I will be trying every chance I can get out there this week to at least add another bird to our team scores..

Our team has been doing great this year with 18 birds tagged so far! That is really super with the bird count being down in most areas.. So before i forget thank you all for being a team member whether you happened to get a bird or not.. just being out there enjoying the great outdoors is the best part of it! Again good luck to all that is still hunting as well..

Congrats camokenny! Good luck when you get after those merriams

Well, Iowa's season has officially closed. Even though I had tagged out over a week ago I was wanting to get my little brother on a turkey. My dad took him out yesterday for the final morning of season and they were unable to put one down. He still had a blast this year. As did I, it was a great spring for me. Sad that it's over, but the countdown to spring 2015 has begun for me! Good luck to those still hunting, and hopefully we will all be on the same team in 2015.

I am sorry to hear about your little brother's luck jepcho! Hopefully next year he will get on to a nice one.. I as well hope we can keep our team next year! We have a great team right now and I am sure it will be getting tight as the other teams do some more scoring.. Right now I am thinking we are still in the lead! That lead is on everything right now! I hope we can hang on to it!

I went out this morning and just got home around a 1/2 hour ago..
I did not see a bird from my blind how ever they are surely there.. I never saw the bear either so I am ok with that one. I did see a big porcupine, a rabbit, and 3 moose.. On the drive home I saw a total of 6 hens and a bird I am thinking was a tom but to far away to say for sure. The minute I saw it, it ran into the woods..

Anyways at my blind with my decoys out and all. It is raining and foggy and I hear something moving threw the bushes. I look around from inside my blind and see nothing. Now I am getting nervous and wondering if it was that big bear or not. A few minutes later I hear this groaning sound and thought here comes that bear. I look out my blind and 3 moose are walking just in the woods straight across from me.. LOL That was a relief! So my decoys and moose like each other or something.. Anyways here is a pic off my cell phone of 3 moose and my decoys.. lol It was a wet but great time out hunting for those big birds!

Hunted several miles and several hundred feet elevation changes and just couldn't buy a gobble. Our season ended Saturday and I have to eat tag soup. This is the second year running I haven't got a bird. I've lost some prime hunting areas due to owners dying and my BEST location just has been stone cold the past two years. Someone else must be hunting this area as we haven't heard a bird the past two years though we see plenty in the fall. So my ace in the hole has been a dud. I'm working on getting some new land for next year though (something in the flatlands so I don't have to work so hard LOL). These mountain birds are tough. Maybe I should go out and hunt with Camokenny? :)

Good luck to the rest of you guys still going at it.

I will be more then willing to host any one of this teams members on a hunt with me in any of the states that I hunt. Always willing to take a fellow turkey hunter out with me.
ITS NEVER TO EARLY TO START PLANNING FOR NEXT SPRING.