Guys, it looks like I'll be delaying my trip to Florida for at least a week. Myhuntin' buddygot sick late last night so we decided to see where we stood in a few days.This may be a blessing in disguise as hopefully the crowds will be a little less as the season progresses.

On another note...I was scoutingon the property that I'll be hunting this year and I came across an absolute monster of a turkey. This thing has a beard that is definitely longer than the tom I got last year. Thickest beard I've ever seen on a turkey. And long too! I haven't gotten a good luck at his hooks but I'm guessing that they're respectable as well.

I'm guessing that this could be the bird that I was trying to squeeze in last year on closing day and couldn't seal the deal before shooting hour closed and ended the season. I went this afternoon on a little snooping mission and saw one tom and a hen. The others weren't there.I'm guessing they were in the woods that were near. Anyway, I can't wait until the season starts here. Good luck guys!

Again, I'll be onlinefor a few more days so if/when y'all get a bird let me know! Simp

Simp, sorry your hunt is delayed. I'm going out Saturday to listen for gobbles. Haven't been hearing them, so hopefully Sat. is the day.

I heading out in just over 5 hrs. Wish me luck. Primarily I am calling for the landowner. If given a chance at two birds, I'll get to shoot too. We'll see...

Sorry about the delay Simp. You'll make it! My daddy always said that if I was tired of waiting, I should just wait faster. So, Simp, ...wait faster!

Here is my bird form 2 years ago. 21 lbs 10" beard

Nice bird Zach! We need a few like this for the contest. I took my son with me this morning to put another peice of the puzzle together in trying to pattern these birds and at flydown there were 3 tomsgobbling that I saw and at least 1 more, maybe two, that I couldn't see that was gobbling. They put on quite a show!

I'll be there tonight at fly up and again in the morning at fly down to see if I can figure them out just a little more. Again, nice bird! Simp

Hey guys!
Good to be on team 7
I am Lynne 44 female I hunt Colorado! I am living in Texasfor a short time and I may hunt Texas but I always hunt Colorado. I will post a picture of last years Gobbler soon.

Good luck to all!

Well, I called one in for the landowner today. Now that means I can add one for the team. I always try to help him first, since he is so gracious to let me come out to his place. He's 75 years old and couldn't hear one without some help. He's a saint in our church, a blessing to our community, and hero of mine.

The hunt went like this:
1.) Set up: B-mobile, she-mobile, and three more hens
2.) hoot....nothing
3.) hoot again.....nothing
4.) tree yelp....nothing
5.)Fly down cackle....nothing
6.) Yelp--- Thundering Gobble.
7.) Yelp again....Gobble
8.) wait
9.)Yelp....Gobble
10.) Wait--- Hen yelps
11.) Yelp--- Gobble
12.) I see a jake 250 yards down the field
13.) takes him 5-10 min to cautiously come in
14.) 2 more jakes come out.
15.) They start to leave.... I yelp---ABOUT FACE/FORWARD MARCH
16.) They scratch the chufas for 15 minutes.
17.) They stretch up looking to our left
18.) I hear the spit and drum
19.) Gobbler in full strut runs from my left to B-mobile, knocks him down, and then commences to raping that poor decoy. We had to kill that bird.

By the way, I got the whole thing on video.

Now it's my turn!

nice bird, zmchillin. Thanks for sharing.
Simp, I'm glad you got to go this morning.

went out looking for shed this afternoon but found nothing and saw nothing. I did see a few scratchings in the woods. And I wanled around onf our small 1/2 acre fields and found 16 tail feathers, i dint know what they came from but they were not there a few days ago. Also my grandpa has seen 13 birds in different spots around the area the past few days!

Oops! I saw in your profile where your name was ''Susan Decker"Sorry about that Lynne!