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I'm going stir crazy here, 17 days til the season starts. Of course, my mom's in the hospital in NY now with vascular problems. I'm going there later this week, orsooner if it turns out she needs surgery, but I'm hopingsurgery won't be necessary. If anything keeps me out of the woods on opening day, thats gonna be it. On a brighter note, I've been working on getting permission to hunt some private property here through a friend of a friend, and I'm hopefully gonna find out tomorrow if I can hunt it. Wish my mom luck, and me too.

RI - sorry to hear about your mom , hopefully she gets better without surgery , and hope you can make it out for the opener

Im ready to go here in PA , im gonna shoot the 12 ga saturday , i got a new choke and i wanna see the difference in that , and try out those new winchester Xtended range shells with it.

I just entered a couple local turkey pools, and I'm feeling like I might have a decent chance if I can find time to get out and zero in on a good tom. Friday morning is a scouting day. Hopefully, I can locate something noteworthy. I haven't been able to scout as much as usual to this point, but I'll make up for lost time on Friday and maybe Sunday morning.

Last year on one of the farms we hunt, I'm pretty sure there was a really good bird with multiple beards that made it throught the spring - I was examining him at about 100 yards on 32x with my 22-250 while groundhog hunting last summer. Either he had some separatedstrands at the top, or he's got a thin second beard coming out near the main plug. I was rock solid and dialed in on him, and man, I'd have bet the farm that this guy has 2 beards. Hopefully I can get a few in the spotting scope on Friday to see what I'm really working with.

The areas that I hunt produce a lot of 8-10.5" beards and .75-1.125 spurs, which will get you close to 60 points. Finding anything bigger is a really tough task, but they're there, just not as plentiful as I'd like.

JH & DL - $5 entry on the Woodlands World turkey contest - good prize package, and all the entry money is paid out as well. If you're in or aroundUniontown, stop in and sign up. They don't take debit cards for the turkey contest[:@]

DL what turkey choke did you go with?

Quiksilver, i called in a turkey for my buddy last year and he got 3rd in the Woodlands pool. he got a free pair of rocky boots. we were kinda diappointed cause 1st was a brand new shotgun. but hey we'll take what we can get. hope to place higher this year

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all of ya'll still waitin on your seasons t open and im about done i got 2 tags left out of 5 .took my son out this mornin he missed he is only 9 so no biggy .

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Hey hey, just checking in. Just noticed that i got put ona team... sweet! Going out saturday morning bright and early, hopefully i will bag one right off the bat.

got 2 longbeards on the radar that should be easy kills and 2 more that i have to scout a little more yet. now i just have to decide which one of the four is bigger. those are all in PA. getting out wednesday morning to listen for gobbles here in WV. looking pretty good for me so far.