hey guys here is a story for ya, so i woke up at about 7:00 am shot a few arrows then headed to school. we own about 300 acres here in MN, so i was driving down the road and right by a 40 acre piece we have down the road a ways i saw the biggest Turkey ive ever seen in my life! There it was in the middle of the black top road in full strut...i accually had to stop he wouldnt move. i could clearly see 3 beards and super long spurs..i was in aww..hopefully that big guy is still around come april 29th! i just hope no one hit him...thought id share that with you all.

Kyle

Hey good for you!

Now add him to your bag!

for me it is T-minus 2 days.....then I hunt 2 states before my home state!

JW

Good Luck JW!

I've got 5 days before we head out to the Black Hills and I'm really getting the itch!

Sounds like MNfowlplay and I will be hunting the same season here in MN.

good luck to you Borch!...Hunt safe......and do save those wings.....rmember I am still wiling to make every body calls for Team 2!

And my deal still stands....send me a apir of wings and I make the best call I can and keep the other....that's it!

If ya don't want yor wings...I pay for postage...when I get them......and even toss in a call!

JW

just went and bought my gun for this season i got a mossburg 500 combo shoots a really good pattern with the full choke in it seemed like a good deal came with the 2 barrelsa scope 3 chokes the ni bought some reminton number 4 shot and fiber optic sights seen them every day 3 toms and alot fo kaes beihnd my house and 1 bearded hen

TEam #2 - we are obn the board again..

Just shot a Tennessee Tom and it is a good un!

NWTF score
Your score is 21.9375 + 10 + 11.25 + 37.75 = 80.9375

21.15 lbs
2 beards - 9 1/9" & 9 3/4"
sprus rt 1" lft 1/ 1/8"

My best ever!

JW

AWESOME JW. Way to go. All this talk is getting me going and I have to wait unil May 10th. OUCH!!!!!! Good luck everyone.

WOW JW!

That's a good one! Congrats on such a fine bird.

So is he on his way to the taxidermist?

nice one jw thats pritty big

What makes him big in score was the double beard added to nice spurs!

This is how I got him - used my own secret weapon! These birds have been pressured hard for since TN opened!

Okay here is the real story.

The have been 2 mature birds taken off this 106 Tennessee acres......
Got out there about 5:30 am as I had a hike up these hills.....I got to the field I last finsihed on 3 years ago and set-up my double bull blind. I wedged in between two cedars....
Time was 5:40 AM....
Place Henrietta - a bobble head decoy 10 paces from blind slightly to the left......Placed Vira my full bodied hen right on the ground facing slightly towards the blind and 8 paces out....then placed my secret weapon.....name is Bruce...a rubber jake decoy that I folded his tail inot his body cavity.....and then placed an old real tail fan so he looked like he was about to mate that full bodied hen....

Hunkered in my blind.....

At 6:10 AM had ahen talk to me as I over looked this field....she came out of no where and I really ticked her off....she catawalled all the way into Bruce and his Harem!....Stood there 5 minutes or soe and purred....couldn't figure out what was wrong....the real hen then walked to my left about 10 to 15 yards away and started yelping...I yelped back each tme she yelped just to pass the time....I did hear gobbles inthe morning and counted 6 brds....I did hear shot - 3 seperate time one was a double shot.....then all of a sudden behind I hear a gobble that could not have been more than 40 yards.....the real hen really started yelping and so did I
When she shut-up - I shut-up!
Lo and behold I am looking where the hen is calling from but can nt see her! And then I see the top of a full symetrical fan!! That is it one Gobble - I could not see behind me...he must have strutted his way in.....so I yelped a few more times on the Mike Kensigner Signature box call as it was new......when I saw that fan he was less the 25 yards now but it was too thick to see him good.....and then here he comes......8 paces out from my blind and totally focused on Bruce my synthectic strutting decoy.....I got most of this on my video camera!
Well the bird looked good and I was going to see what he would do with Bruce cause he looked mad!...But when I was filming him I saw his spur.....put the camera down and got the gunup as the spur I saw was pointed - was nice....Whacked him at 8 paces from where I sat!

You can see the score above.....and I didn;t know it was a double bearded bird until I walked back to weigh him....all I looked at was the spurs and they are gooduns!
At least a 3 to 4 year old bird.....
Was a great but short hunt as my plan of making Bruce t add to Henrietta and Vira all came together.....and then that new box call! WOW!

That is my sotry and I am sticking to it!

JW