I agree camokenney I am already thinking and planning for next turkey season.

That is a great offer..

The area I am in has the birds.. They just are not talking right now?? But they are there that is for sure. I saw where a tom left his dropping in the road when I was walking out from my blind yesterday. Maybe the moose kept him away? I do not know and will be heading out for another morning hunt as I worked last night..

Thats a heck of an offer Kenny. If we win this thing it would be cool to have a champion team hunt somewhere. The public I hunt is loaded with birds for the person that knows what they are doing and has 30k acres so plenty of room. I can point to the units that I know have birds just don't ask me to call for ya lol...still tryin to figure that out my self ;)

I saw nothing at my blind this morning.. I only saw a couple of hens when traveling to and from as the wind picked up with the rain. It is still overcast and I am hoping it will hurry up and break.. Anyways I will be back at it in the morning again.. Good Luck to everyone still out there hunting..

Phil, how are we looking? Have any other teams closed the gap?

Thanks for the offer CamoKenny. Of course, I was just joking. I'm just more frustrated with why my honeyhole isn't producing anymore. It's 400+ acres of private family land that has produced multiple doubles. It's always been hot with an occasional off day due to weather changes but it has been stone cold the past two years. My cousin, who controls most of the property, allows a few other people to hunt it but that's never had an impact before. Someone has the turkeys there lock-lipped. I'm not sure if it's poachers or coyotes. We hunted there the second day of the season and hunting pressure shouldn't have been so much that they were silent. I have found baiting piles in the fall (illegal here) and reported that but I'm not sure my cousin did anything about it. In the 30 years I've been hunting it I've never seen it as bad as the past two. Yet, we see lots of turkey in the fall. Wish I lived closer so I could put more time on the property and see who else is there or whatever. Oh well.

I am sorry to hear about you luck Talondale.. The birds here have been very tight lipped as well. But they do show themselves to me at times. So I know they are there and it keeps me going back for another try at them..

Right now swampbuster we are still in the lead in every aspect of it. But, that is still subject to change. I am thinking team 6 is behind us by around 80 score points right now on the best bird per hunter catagory and still handy to 200 score points behind on overall bird weight. I am still thinking we will be the winners. But as all know you can not count on it yet.. But like Talondale there is a lot that are having a hard time scoring any birds at all. The weather this year has messed a lot of hunters up..

I am also hoping to be able to score another bird for the team.. I have seen a few of them so hopefully it will come together soon for me. I still have until May 31 to get it done with..

Ok guys here is the run down on where we actually stand right now.. ( providing I did not make any errors.. )

Our Team.. Good ol number 5 ..
Best bird per hunter ( 7 birds ) 504.1875
Total score ( 19 birds ) 1204.25
Team # 6
Best bird per hunter ( 6 birds ) 424.325
Total score ( 14 birds ) 911.0875

Team # 1
Best bird per hunter ( 7 birds ) 417.25
Total score ( 14 birds ) 701.375

Team # 3
Best bird per hunter ( 6 birds ) 370.3125
Total score ( 10 birds ) 646.25


These are the top three teams that are following us.. I am expecting a team or 2 to add a few more birds as of yet.. But, we all know no one knows for sure.. I do believe we will be the winners this year though. I am guessing that a lot of seasons are winding down now. We may end up loosing the total score, but, I am predicting a best bird per hunter victory!! That is where this contest counts! Also if I can get another bird we could very easily take it all with us! Thanks guys It has and is very enjoyable to have each of you on the team!!

I did mess up a bit on Team # 3 so I corrected it.. I also messed up a bit on camokenny's bird #4 score which dropped the overall score by almost 2 and a 1/2 points. Sorry camokenny..

Thanks for updating us on what's going on Phil. Good luck to all who are still hunting

That is not a problem!! Whether we win this contest or not I am thinking we need to make sure we give a big thank you to camo for getting turkzilla for us!! That surely was a big boost to the team! Even though we can not say we have this thing won yet as any team can get a big bird and up grade their scores.. We can not even think about letting our guard down. So any members still hunting good Luck to you all! We will get this contest won!!

I will soon be getting home work here and heading back out for a few more hours. It is supposed to be overcast and light wind this morning and then more rain this afternoon. So hopefully the birds will be out to play this morning..