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Ours opens April 12th. But iI have to wait until April 30 (3rd season)

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Here in East Texas I have the month of April. Kansas I will be there the 10-13 and if I dont kill one I'll go back the end of May.

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Indiana opens April 23rd.(I think???pretty sure but will check)

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My first season is the April 14th. Cant wait too get out. I have 2 Illinois tags and a chance for a third still.Beard Busters is a good name.

Derek

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Have any of you guys been out scouting. I went out 2 weekends ago and saw 4 toms and 2 hens. All the toms had had atleast 9 inch beards.

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I havent had a chance to go out yet. Its finally starting to warm up and the snow is starting to meltso ill probably make it out this weekend.

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No time yet. To much work and no play...... I will get some in before season!
Wis- Great to see you found some longbeards.
Wyo- Good luck

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Hi guys, just checking in. Team name sounds great and the captain is a good choice. I've been very busy lately with work and family, work really gets in the way of the fun stuff.

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May 1st for mein NY -

My son is 12 - so we might try the youth hunt April 26-27 (not for this contest of course)

We have seen a lot of toms on the trail cams this winter - Here's one froma littl while back. I've pulled the cameras now - but was getting good pictures of this group of Toms every week.



Looking forward to it!
FH

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hey everyone i just got put on the team from the alt. list ill be hunting illinois iv already been scouting and have seen plenty of birds so it should be a good year

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Glad to have you on board bwhunter501. Everyone here seems like they have birds located. That is good for us!!!
Farmhunter, That is an awesome picture.

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Awesome pic! Good to have you bwhunter501!

I bought a 101st Airborne yesterday! Time to start tuning it now!

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Fred, Great bow. I shoot a Matthews switchbackxt. I think Bowtech is taking over here!!!lol

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Lets see some of your mounts. Here is my Merriams. This is one of my favorite poses.
My rio from my Kansas bowhunt is getting mounted in the flying position.

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Yeah my buddy has a Switchback xt. I wanted something with a lil more thump :D. My dad let me shoot his 82nd for a week and after that I had to have one, so in hopes for a little more forgiveness I went with the 101st after shooting a few other models.

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Thats a awesome mount!! I dont have a bird mounted yet but i hope ill get one that is "worthy" one of these days.

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anyone make avatars team?

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I could if my Mac hadn't crapped out on me. If you have the means to and want to that would be awesome! Looks like you have a pretty good one.

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Great idea. I know nothing about it but we should find someone.

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If you have chosen a team name (don't have too - is your call)- please add tot he very 1st post for your team check in.

The person who started this team thread just needs to edit.

Please do add your Team # to the title.

Thanks.....

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Great mount!!! Went out scouting twice this weekend. No turkeys have moved to our farm yet which is typical. Anyway I found 8 sheds on Friday and 3 more on Sunday. It was the most I have ever found. Ill try to get some pics when the wife gets home from work.

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Lucky!!! I havent found a single one yet this year and i have definatelly never found 8 in one session. Do any of them show much promise for next year?

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Wyo---Ya I know I feel lucky to find that many. LOL The biggest one I found both sidesof and should be real nice. It already is an 11 pointer with a split brow tine. Nice mass as well. I will try to get some pics up to show ya. I only found a couple that were real small like spikes or forks. Most of them were okay. Squirells(sp) or mice had gotten to a couple of them.

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Seen about 20 birds today in Pike County Indiana. Didn't have my Bino's or camera with me[8D]

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finally starting to see some turkeys around my house. had one strutting in the neighbors field today but by the time i figured out the 800x zoom on my camcorder he was back into the woods.now i only gotta wait 23 days until season starts. WAAAAAHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GO TEAM BEARD BUSTERZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ !!!

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Yep I'm trying to get everything together and buy all the last little things I need. I can't wait!

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Glad you guys are seeing some birds. Been pretty slow for me. Some close by but not on our property. They always seem to show up during season so I hope it works out that way again!

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TEAM #12 Beard Busterz
1 dog killer 1 60.375
2 ExtraDeadFred 1 60.5000
3 farm hunter 1 32
4 jasuz61
5 johnst43 1 51.25
6 MdDave
7 tkycaller CAPTAIN1 60.125 57.5
8 Tuco
9 wis_rifle_hunter
10 WYObowfisher
11 bwhunter501 1 62
11 TOTAL TEAM BIRDS TAKEN 6
Total Points 326.2500 326.2500 57.5
Team Rank 29.6591%

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!
10.

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Hey guys, I finally got off the couch after I crawled out of the bed I have been in the last three days!!! I have beeen sick, sick, sick.
Took a walk behind the house and found a nice gobbler print. No other sign but at least that made me feel a little better.

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Going to try and do some serious scouting next week, looks like the cold weather is gone for a while!

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Yea. Its warming up here too:DFinally!!!!!!

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Hey everyone. Check this thread out its about stickers for the contest...

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=2739131&mpage=2&key=&#274080 7

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Anyone going to be using a bow this year. I'm using my Hoyt Kobalt.

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Id like to use my bow its been so freaking cold thoughthis springI havent really had a chance to shoot much.

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I will be taking my BowTech Guardian and my Benelli SBE with me.

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Bowtech 101st for me.

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It is finally starting to dry up around here and I am going to try and get out scouting Wed. morning.

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I'm going out on wed. to put my blind out. I get of school early and my gramps is taking me out.

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Its been raining here all day but its supposed to get nice towards the middle of the week. Hopefully it will be nice saturday for the opener. When do the rest of your seasons open?

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I'm headed to Kansas (seasonstarted the 1st)tomorrow. I'll be there till sunday, wish me luck. Hopefully, sunday night I'll be posting pics of two birds.