2026 Spring Turkey Contest
 

Just for fun. No teams, you are on your own. Post as many legal birds as you want.
Please add, State harvested, weapon used, distance of shot, then specie, weight, length of spurs, length of beard. And post pictures. Also any thing you may have learned. Include calls used.

Help thers take others on your hunt.

I'll score and add that to your post at some point using NWTF Rules like past events.l


SO
Bocajnala
RPD63
Phil from Maine
DTC


The Prize.
Just HNI "Bragging" rites. Lol


Good luck
JW

Good stuff JW. Count me in.

- Jake

I'll be hunting ohio and PA but only have a couple days.

-jake

Just post Jake.
I'll be hunting Michigan and Wisconsin
Also hunting with a member from here that I've never met face to face. DTC.
Looking forward to that.

JW

Haven’t had much luck down here in Florida but have a pretty good draw hunt starting next week

What the heck I’m in but, our season doesn’t open until May. We are almost always the last ones to head out there.. I have always enjoyed the contests in the past..

Well Phil. You and I are in the same boat. I get Michigan soon in mid April. But the last 3 weeks of May for me. All the dumb ones are gone by that time in my zone of Wisc! :)

JW

Yes and I have seen some nice ones in the fields strutting up a storm right now. When our season opens up they will have disappeared looking for other hens. But I know when those horse tails start growing in the hardwoods the turkeys won’t be far away. They seem to draw the hens in to feed on them..

Finally got to pull the trigger in Florida. I’ll get the stats up

Florida
Osceola
20 gauge shotgun..TSS
20 foot shot
15 lbs
8” beard
zero spurs… completely smooth.
ceramic pot call… my design.

The birds we shoot in this particular area of the WMA are always light in weight. I ended up being about 100 yds from the roost… closer than I like. Two days before the hunt he was roosted deeper in the creek bottom so I was quite surprised when he gobbled that close.

Ray

I'm early may also

-jake