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Checkin in fellas, I may have a great spot lined up, I have asked and heard through my son its a go!! I just have to confirm it...

video is cool BHW, That scope should be the whip!

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yeah, so whats your guys' biggest turkeys, mine was an 11"beard on a 21lbs bird(forgot to measure spurs)

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Guys - just signing in.

Here is a picture from Tuesday of my farm in WV.

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hey glad to have ya! nice pic i hope you get one of those big gobblers!

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great pic, thanks for sharing. That would be a nice computer wallpaper

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Here's a pic I got yesterday at one of my spots (camera time is off)

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Howdy all,hope I am at the right spot, just signing up, hope to help make this the best team of all. By the way guys, those are some great pictures.
lost horn

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yup your in the right spot ill update your name to my list of people

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I live in SW MO, I am about an hour east of Springfield.

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I got this picture this week.

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Here' another

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nice birds, my family is in Cape county, my aunt owns property(60acres) just out of Marble Hill, you have me, my sister and her family, and my parents all looking at moveing to south MO in the next few years, infact my sister will be there in a month when her husband is discharged from the Air Force, whats the public land opportunities like over there? for everything not just turkey

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I love that "In your face" pic :)

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DTC those are two nice gobblers there, those buggers are wearing some nice paint brushes!! :D

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There is some good public land hunting if you can get away from the people. The government land gets hammered during turkey season. MO is the #1 state in non-resident turkey hunters. I know of some good public land that is bow hunting only and you can see alot of deer on it late in the season.

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sweet, how many birds are you allowed a year?

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We can kill 6 birds a year. 2 in the spring season, 2 in archery season, and 2 in the fall shotgun season.

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sweet, sounds like i need to get into archery, here in CA we are allowed4 birds, 3 in the spring one in the fall, witheither shotgun or bow

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IN NY it's 2 in the spring, no hens

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im only alouwed hens in the fall

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Alright Team 19 it is about time to get the ball rolling. After 11 inches of rain in MO we are finally getting some sunshine and warm weather. The birds are starting to gobble SOME. We don't start until April 21st here but I am leaving Sunday for FL. Hope to complete my slam with a nice osceola and then it's off to TX to hunt rios with my bow. That should tide me over until the youth season in MO. Good luck Team 19!!!!

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yeah i have 8 more days here in CA cant wait........

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I'll have to live thru you guys! Our season is so far away it's ridiculous

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I got up and listened this morning. It was pretty windy but heard 25-30 birds this morning. They are still wadded up and not gobbling alot yet. I leave in the morning for FL on a 3 day hunt. Hopefully I canpost a score for Team #19 when I get home. Good luck team!

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i hope you complete your slam with a nice big one!

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Thanks alot huntnteen. I am leaving in 15 minutes. I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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at least your getting out of the floods and snow DTC, my dad wants to know if you need a waterfowl stamp and steel shot cause everythings a wetland and your turkeys are now swamp-birds

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TEAM #19 Gobbling Thunder
1 AR 34 eight point 1 58.5
2 AUTiger
3 bhw 1 60.135
4 DTC 1 81.2500 60.0000 59.0000
5 hootnscoot 1 69.7500 63.5000 55.0000
6 huntnteen CAPTAIN 1 64.6250
7 mferman 1 78.7500 70.0500
8 PreacherTony
9 Theinespines3
10 wis_bow_huntr 1 51.0000
11 lost horn 1 64.25
12 turkeygirl2 1 50.5
12 TOTAL TEAM BIRDS TAKEN 9
Total Points 578.7600 578.7600 193.5500 114.0000 886.3100
Team Rank 48.2300%



Above listed is your current Team Number, Team Name, Captain, and all registered Team Members to date.
Both Arrowmaster and JW!will be collecting Team member’s Big Turkeys harvested as posted by your Team Captain from the Captains Post Scores here link.[/b]. [TEAM CAPTAINS USE THIS LINK TO POST SCORES http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=2707647
Team members MUST alert their Captain, once they have harvested a legal bird, by posting all birds shot on the Team Thread.
From Rules – (click on this link to read more – we are paraphrasing here http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=2557474)

1. Only turkeys legally harvested, according to that states regulations during that states 2008 Spring season can be entered

2. You must post a pictures of your turkey toprove authenticity ofthe killPicture of Beard – Beards if more than one AND Spurs can be included

3. Do write a short story and include when (date-time), where (state-county if known), and what weapon you used (a brief description of your hunt – a brief description of weapon used for the kill when you post a picture.

4. Make sure in your article to include, weight (pounds and ounces), length of beard(s) (longest strand measured from base of the beard to the tip of the longest strand) Note all fractions need to be in decimal form - Conversion table and how to measure spurs can be found on this – click here 2008 HNI rules page 2 http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=2557474&mpage=2&key=

Multiple bearded birds add all beard measurements together (must see beards in picture)
WRITE DOWN ALL DATA FROM ABOVE – USE IT IN POINT 8 BELOW

5. If you need help posting a picture ask a team mate or ask us. We are here to help.

6. If you aren't able to score your quarry for whatever reason, identify if your bird as a Hen, Bearded Hen, Jake, or Tom, and you can use this tableif you're unable to score:
Hens 10 points, Bearded Hens 15 points, Jakes 20 points, Gobblers 30 points ( difference between Gobbler or Jake will be made based on a clear picture of the tail fan extended as if in strut – tail attached to the bird)

7. Only one legal bird per registered Team member can be used for the Team’s total points. If you shoot more than one bird do alert your captain -do post according to above However – Your Team Total Score is based from each Team Member’s biggest bird – not the average.
THIS IS THE TEAM CAPTAIN’S RESPONSIBILITY!

8. THE OFFICIAL HNI TURKEY SCORING CALCULATOR
JUST CLINK ON THE LINK BELOW
http://www.nwtf.org/all_about_turkeys/turkey_score.html

9. IF YOU NEED HELP, SEE SOMETHING WRONG OR AN ERROR CONTACT US! Arrowmaster - JW!

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Hey guys..did I get replaced or no? Sorry I've been swamped with college......but I'm here if I haven't been replaced! Driving to school this AM, saw a bird strutting...I cannot wait for May!

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Ok, I see I got replaced...[:-]

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Turkey Girl i will talk to Arrow and JW and see what we can do with you, you may still be on our team and you may be placed on a different one

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Hunteen and fellow Team 19 members.......please welcome turkeygirl2

We did not replace anybody but really added all those who asked after teams where drawn.....

Coming in at this time will work well - and if others who signed but never logged in come back to - hey join the fun. We tried to dole out new team members to even out all team rosters. If some of those do come back - my not be on the same team - but will get a team.....

JW

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ok thank you JW and welcome TurkeyGirl, so tell us a bit about yourself where do you live and hunt, how many birds have you gotten and what is your biggest so far?

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Landed the property I was looking to hunt. There are birds there so all should be good. I will most likely let my son take his first.

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thats fine AR im going out saturday but my first priority is it will be my friends first turkey hunt so i want him to get one, im pretty much the guide/caller for him, then i start working for myself and my brother-in-law, but i have a peice of property where it will be me picking out the bird i want, there are a couple multi-beard HUGE birds there so i will be holding out for one of them, unless a monster gobbler walks in front of me like it did last year

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Thanks and I apologize again for being a slacker,lol. Well about myself...I have a Bachelor's degree in outdoor education/camp admin, then went back to school this past fall for a 2 year nursing program, which is why I wasn't on here...it's crazy crazy busy. I've been hunting for almost 10 years, will be this fall. I hunt deer with shotgun and bow, turkeys with shotgun, and smallgame. I have about 10 turkeys to my name, and I'd say I'm even more passionate about hunting them than I am deer...I think part of it is turkeys can play mind games with you,lol. I had about 3-4 years where the turkey population kind of decreased and I was not putting a tag on a bird for those years, then last spring, the ice broke and I put a tag on a nice spring jake and then put my fall tag on a tasty youngster from the spring brood.

My biggest bird....a 20 lb gobbler with 8.5" beard and 1 1/4 inch and 3/4 inch spurs. I've tagged more jakesthan anything, but it's alright, love to eat turkey!Missed a big bird last spring, but hoping he's still around this year. I know a few spots on state land alsowhere there are turkeys thatI need to scout out more. Season starts May 1, but because of school, I miss the first 2 days[:o];)I can't wait though, being in the woods in the spring mornings is like church for me:D

Good luck everyone, and I'll be more active in here! Keep after those birds and enjoy the whole hunt. I've got to go study;)but I'll see if I can post some bird photos in the main forum later.

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i hope DTC sows up with a nice bird! his hunt is up and he should be going back to the lake that used to be MO

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well im heading out in the morning, it sounds like my dad is takeing my friend out and going to call for him which means that ill be calling for me and my bro-in-law so what i do is if i get a shot i take it, if he gets a shot he takes it, so theres a chance ill be posting a bird for us tomorrow

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Good luck to anyone who's hunting right now! I got my order in yesterday and my new Mossberg is now dressed ina black Butler Creek Ultra padded sling and a black TruGlo 30mm Red Dot. Just got get it sighted in.

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well i am back, my mom got a nice gobbler and she was the only one who got a bird on place, but im heading out tomorrow so we can hopefully have a score up tomorrow