Team 1 turknado
 

Welcome back returning Champs. Here is your team thread. Check in here.

1. JW
2. turkman1
3. daveco
4. JoeA
5. firelt72
6. bald9eagle
7. DTC
8. jmedenf
9. RIStrutStopper
10. ManofTheFall
11. BB Outdoors
12. BIG DONNIE BRASCO

Back again to repeat baby!!!

This is gonna be fun!

I'm getting fired up! :kt: Good luck to all, but especially Team 1 Turknado

I'm taking a buddy on his first spring turkey hunt. I loaned him a box call to practice with and the next thing I know, he went a picked up a slate call, mouth calls and a ghillie suit. Hopefully I can welcome him to the fraternity of fan-addicted, spring fevered fools. He's pheasant, duck, grouse busting machine.

Any takers for captain this year?

Hey DTC, more turkey porn please!

I will try to get some more pics up soon. One of those birds has 3 beards.

Sweet three beards!!!! I am pumped- Too bad we start so late 4/20 this year!

Can't wait until the season starts! Hopefully we'll take Team Turknado to the top of the board again!

We open 4/18 here but I have a few trips lined up for my son (DTC Jr)
We leave for FL to try and complete his grand slam 3/12, got to TX to chase rios 3/26 and trying to work a quick trip to KS 4/2 before the youth season in MO opens on 4/9. I love chasing spring turkeys!!

I am back. Lets do it again. That would be so sweet

Turkman

Checking in. Ready to do it again.

Here and ready to go. I have some new strategies this year. Hoping they will pay off!!!!!

I am here and surely will hunt. However I lost some fire as I lost my buddy whom I met here doing this contest. I'll be thinking a lot of him as I am in the field.

I have one new strategy and that is using a layout blind. I have one area that I consistently see big ole tom use. Every move I make they seem to out guess me. So I am going to lay in their travel path. Might place one hen decoy.

I am getting ready as I teach turkey hunting to 1st time hunters in the State of WI. Sit in my class a half day and you go out hunting with a mentor for a free half day hunt. This is my third year teaching this. I also teach a learn to pheasant hunt program as well as Hunter Education. Been teaching hunter safety 20 plus years now.

So be safe out there....

JW

Ps Dane I know you can read this out there somewhere. We'll be seeing each other soon enough!

Forgot I was on the winning team! Here!

Where y'all hunting this season? Which sub-species?
Me: Big Island, Rio Grande

Ohio, eastern.

Easterns in South-western Ohio.

Easterns in RI and CT.

Eastern

Good to see the band coming back together!
2016 Reunion Tour Turknado The Reckoning!

MI & WI with a ton of Easterns

i have already found a double or triple bearder and 3 others with 20 oz coke bottle beards dangling from their chest!

Hey Arrow I might need to cash in at 160 bucks....ha!

Oh and I have a new super secret method I am going to try......

JW

I have a new place to hunt Easters in IL. A lot of turks a lot of hard wood trees and good fields. I saw 55 turkey and 6 long beards.

Well I certainly don't want to jinx us but no returning Champ team was ever a 2pete!

So we will be the first.....

Dave.....JW

My shot shell case has an empty space. 😜 And that's all I'm posting for now.

Well team, I am gonna kick things off this weekend with my son and Team 2. We are headed to FL to try and complete his grand slam. I took him a few years back and he missed. I hope things work out a lot better this time.

Early season result...I found this guy Fri AM gobbling his head off behind me. He'd respond to soft calls, but I couldn't turn him from going downhill to his hens. Sat AM, I snuck in below him, to the side of a likely path of travel. At 6:15 he sounded off and kinda stayed in place. He then moved to my left, and came down slope angling to cross a fire road. I moved down and got in front of him. He gobbled the whole time, and I could hear the hens. He kept angling towards the road, and I paralleled him. I'm sure he heard me, and went silent.
Then another hunter drove past and slowed down when he saw me 15yds off the road in the grass. I waved him past, and the gobbler moved back from the road. I moved up 10 more yds, between him and the girls. I sat/kneeled between 2 likely paths he'd take. He gobbled once, close but the grass clumps were 2-3' tall making it hard to see him. I saw grass move and he stepped into view at 26yds, right in my line of fire. I moved the barrel 1" left and Boom!
The whole thing lasted 45mins and it was an awesome hunt. He was an average 2yo for our area; 14.25#, 6.75" beard, and .75" spurs.

That's a great way to start things Joe, congrats!

That great Joe Frist one down
If every one get one we may one this.

Turkman

I know I've said it before Joe but you make me jealous...

FYI...Saw flock of 14 birds Sunday morning with a lone strutter. First time I can remember seeing one strutting in north Alabama that early in March.

Congrats Joe!!!!!

Has anyone stepped up as team captain?

Joe, congrats on your turkey. I scored your bird and put it on the score thread. It scored 42.75. You can post your pic on the picture post.

Way to start us off Joe!

Who was our team captain last year?

Sorry I am old and forgetful.

And so I went back to check the Archives........Joe you where captain. You did an outstanding job and have my vote for this yr!

Lead on son!

JW

Not that it helps our team but DTC Jr finished his slam this weekend.

need a captain picked soon... :)

I'll assume the duty of captain. If anyone else wants to take it over...make your case. :poke:

Need check-ins from daveco and BB Outdoors.

Joe - I can get e-mails so I sent an email asking them to either come check in or tell us so we can replace..

DAve

Sorry guys. Let the team down.

Had a good day yesterday. Set up on a tom we roosted the day before. We had a near perfect set up in some recently thinned pines. We placed a Montana Decoy hen and jake about 20 yards below us in a little saddle. The bird hit the ground 100+ yards from us and promptly started answering calls. He strutted up on top on the little hill on the other side of the saddle about 80 yards away. The moment he caught a glimpse of the bright red head on the jake he dropped strut and wandered off. It would have been over in less than an hour.

I got on a second bird around 9 by myself. I stopped and made a call from the truck. He answered and the hunt was on. I walked 10 yards from the truck and he was standing 150 yards on the road bed looking at me when I rounded a curve. I eased back and he left the road. I got him to gobble again so I knew he wasn't too spooked. I walked away and called without answer. When I eased back to the curve and peaked down he was back on the road. I ducked down and tried calling him in. He wouldn't answer. Looking back he had left again. I walked to where he had been and he answered about 40 yards away! We talked to each other for an hour. He mostly drumming and me mostly clucking and scratching. When he wouldn't break I slid down the road to get him to think I was leaving. He wouldn't answer and I couldn't hear drumming. Imagine the surprise on both our faces when he popped over the edge of the opposite side of the roadbed I was on! FYI...you can not shoulder your gun faster than a turkey can duck and run. Needless to say he got a couple of warning shots as he flew away unharmed.

Keep at it. It still sounds like a great experience. Several years ago I got a trio of decoys; hen, jake and tom. Of the few turkeys I've shot coming in to a decoy set up, I only had the hen out.
For me, the best place for the jake or gobbler decoy is in the closet.