nice bird and pics bullshooter. Congrats!!

Finally, heres the pics from my trip to WY and SD. The double was from my 1st day in WY. The single is my SD bird.

SD

Georgous tail fans drhntr178. Nice birds

Those are some really great pics. Some of you guys have had fantastic seasons!

Just returned from Wisconsin. I started out the first morning with blind, decoys, and bow only to have a huge gobbler strutting at about 80 yards but he and his hens didn't want anything to do with me. I switched later in the morning to the gun and went to the run n' gun approach which I enjoy. I got two gobblers to respond at noon and traded calls with them and then played it silent. They didn't move from their position on the opposite hillside so I figured they might have hens with them. I circled downhill to a different position along an old logging road and called again. Wouldn't you know it...they gobbled where I'd been 10 minutes before. I switched to soft clucks and purrs.A few minutes later down the road they came single file. Caught me with the gun down and were at full alert when I slowly raised the gun and knocked the lead bird down. He had a good beard at 10", one spur at 15/16", and the other was worn off at .5" but he only weighed 19.5 lbs. Strange as a bird with that size beard from that area is normally around 22 to 23 lbs. Anyway, one down and one hunt in Minnesota this next weekend to go. We had a great time camping/hunting and one of the guys, Kevin, got his first bird as well. Here are stats from NWTF calc and some pix from the hunt. Do I need to post this somewhere else as part of contest??

Your score is 19.5 + 9.375 + 5 + 20 = 53.875

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x249/ironranger1961/wisconsinGobbler.jpg

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x249/ironranger1961/Spur2WI2007.jpg

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x249/ironranger1961/Spur1WI2007.jpg

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x249/ironranger1961/BeardWI2007.jpg

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x249/ironranger1961/WIhuntLandscape.jpg

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x249/ironranger1961/TheCrew.jpg

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x249/ironranger1961/DeadmanCanyon1.jpg

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x249/ironranger1961/Jeff-ValleyView.jpg

nice bird ironranger, where abouts in Wisconsin were you hunting? Congrats!!

ironranger, I'll take care of getting your bird stats posted for you. Good luck on your MN hunt. I'm gonna try to hit the PA woods tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday.

Thanx PABirdhunter and good luck this weekend if you make it out!!

Zubba, we've been hunting around Sparta, WI for about 15 years now. It's about 20 miles east of LaCrosse. Pretty country...

Here is how our scoring is shaping up at this point:

Rick James - 67.25
270 Win - 62.5
Bullshooter - 64.875 and 64.1875
gri22ly - 75.625 and 63.4375
Tarheel Turkey - 62.25
deerdust - 58.5
Bluegunner - 58.8125 and 65 and 76
pabirdhunter
Joe A - 51.375
drhntr178 - 77.565 and 41.5 and 51
SuperStrutter - 58.5
HoytUltratec
Swamp Rooster
gobblegetterNY
Tedrow - 63 and 63.9375
Bloominghunter2
takedownfreak123
RIStrutStopper - 26
longbeardbuster - 65.5 and 57.5 and 47.875
Southernstrut56 - 52.25 and 59.1875
zubba - 33.25
SwampCollie
ironranger 53.875