Just two more weeks!!!

Ok I'm here! A little bit about what my season will be like. I'll be hunting Iowa and Missouri this year. Both seasons open April 16th. I'll be down in Southern Iowa hunting that first week, in both states actually. Then 2 weeks later I'll go down for the final weekend of Missouri's season. I am also hunting Iowa's 4th season which begins May 2nd and runs through the 20th. I have all my licenses ready to go, so I can kill a max of 4 toms this spring. 2 in Iowa and 2 in Missouri. I'll also be helping my wife, dad, and a couple of good buddies of mine, fill their Iowa tags. Glad to be on Team 3! Good luck to everyone and I should be on here more regularly again now.

Hey Guys! just got back from the cabin and look what i came across!! less than a mile from the cabin too!

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GREAT Pic, looks like you have them in your area.

i went out this morning for some scouting and wow they were fired up this morning. heard 8 different gobblers and a hen cuttin up a storm. man i cant wait for the end of april

Awesome, but now you can't use the excuse: There's now turkeys in my area!!![8D]

hey boys, i am happy to be aboard the GraveDiggers. here's a sample of what i hope to repeat this year!

Whatsup fellas- went out shedhunting all day yesterday, and took the diaphragms and the digital cam with me.

I didn't start calling until about noon when was taking a drink break and heard a gobbler shock at a passing crow. He was awfully far away, so I figured I'd challenge myself to draw him in off the ridge top. No response at all to some soft yelping, but I started a pretty aggressive fighting purring/clucking sequence, and he was hammering. Within 15 minutes, he was within 100 yards, and I was positioned behind a blind to snap a few pics. I turned the camera on, and was dead still.

I heard something in the brush behind me, crunch crunch crunch - and it was getting closer... and closer... and closer.... PFFFFFFFTTTTTTT -v-v-vvvvvvvvvvvv. Oh man.

I turned my head around as slow as I could, and there was a beast of a tom strutting behind at no more than 25 yards in the wide open woods. (Keep in mind that I'm wearing blue jeans, no face mask, and he's on the BACK side of me) - there was nothing to hide behind. I tried to creep the camera around, but he totally busted me. Putt! Putt! Off the ridge he went.

When he busted, the other bird (the one that I was calling to) also shut up and got outta dodge.

So, I never got any pictures at all. I can't believe that big bird strolled right in behind me - totally silent.

Man, if it was turkey season, he was toast. LOL

Found one nice shed - a huge fork - 19" main beam on it! LOL If his other side matched, he'd have had to have been the biggest forkhorn I've ever seen.

By the way - nice pics HT. Looks like you've got gaggles of hens in there, so you'll have to modify your calling to draw in the hens until they're all nested and the toms are alone. I saw a couple good flocks yesterday in my travels, but nothing quite like that.

Hoytteen, Nice pics man! I dont think you'll have any trouble finding a few birds once season opens. And cool story quiksilver, hopefully they come in that easy when you got a gun pointed at them.

Got one fellas! hes no boss but I don't care. This is the first bird I've called in and killed. I've always had someone else calling for me before. And it was public land. 15lbs 6" beard 3/8 & 1/2" spurs. I need to check the rules before I enter him. Is it first 2 birds or best 2? I'm hunting private land in a couple of weeks.
EDIT: OK, I checked the rules. I can post the score of this bird and count it towards our team total. Then if I get a bigger bird later that one will cancel this one out. The rules said post them as you get them so Hoytteen my score for this bird is 35.9375. Please see that the proper authorities are informed!