This will be my first turkey season. I've read and watched all I can, so I'm just trying to sit tight until spring comes around. I'll be up at the Eastern Outdoor & Sportsman Show for a few turkey hunting seminars and to check out gear, and I'm sure I'll learn a few tricks there.

I've got the usual camo clothing (using Advantage Timber) and a blind, and I have an old 870 Wingmaster that my grandpa gave me. He bought it about 30 years ago and never even assembled it. It got a coat of oil and was left in the closet until I started talking about turkeys last year. I ordered a Remington replacement barrel, 26" vented with RemChoke/LC, and a three-piece camo sleeve set for the stock, pump, and barrel, but it hasn't arrived yet.

As far as a bit about myself, I'm a 24-year-old print shop supervisor, married five years to my high school sweetheart. We live in Northern Virginia with our male lab mutt Diamond, and no kids. I'll be hunting public land in southwest Virginia as soon as the season starts, so I'm hoping, with some luck, that I'll bag one before the pressure builds up.

I'm also into whitetail hunting, but this was my first (and unsuccesful season). I worked a lot of overtime and came down with the flu during gun season, so that pretty much wrecked any hopes of making a harvest. But just being in the woods among the critters is what truly makes it all so memorable, so I'm looking toward and planning for next fall. I was lucky enough to secure about 50 acres of good private land in northeastern Maryland for the next deer season, so I'm just counting down the days.

I also do a little squirrel hunting with Diamond and my Rem 514. He has no pedigree or training, but his instinct is strong. He'll run them up a tree and bark like crazy, and that's good enough for me. He's generally good at retrieval, but sometimes he gets so excited that he runs back to me. We need to work on that.

Well, that's about it for me. I wish all of Team 5 the best of luck this spring! Let's make 'em holler!