I'm following another post, a guy asked what state his team will be hunting in, I'm curious as to what state we'll be hunting also....I'll be in Virginia.

I'm also in Virginia.

Maryland.

I'll be in Rhode Island. I may have a chance to hunt some good private land in Connecticuit this year too.

I'm up state NY, catskills.

I'll be hunting in the mountains of western NC.

Hey, how long has everyone been hunting the spring bird?Myself I've been at it around 12 years but the first 4 went birdless.Since then I have about 26 gobblers to my name(that includes fall birds also).Last year my first bird was one of my best,21 lbs 11'' beard and double spurs 1 1/4'',5/8 & 1 1/16,5/8
My wepon of choice is Remington 870 3'' 21 '' barrel with a hastings extented ported x-full choke,custom painted camo job and last year I put a millet red dot scope on,shooting Winchester HV 3'' 1 3/4 oz #5's
I'm 40 years old with two great chrildren(well most of the time you know how small one's can be 2.5 year's and 5.5 year's old)My wife is the greatest for putting up with all my hunting and fishing(although by the end of May I'm walking a mighty fine line between marriage and divorce)but I'm sure I'm not the only one!I live in the catskill mts. of NY(delaware cty).I love to hunt(the spring bird being # 1)also deer,and duck.And lets not forget the fishing mostly fly fishing here in the catskills and salt water flyfishing on Long Island(striped bass) and the best fishing would be Bonefish in the Bahammas or Giant Tuna fishing off of Cape Cod.
So let's hear from our other team mates, tell us a little about yourselves

Nice havin' some teammates heading into the spring.
I'll be hunting here in Iowa, with a possibility of going to
South Dakota or Nebraska.

This will be my first turkey season. I've read and watched all I can, so I'm just trying to sit tight until spring comes around. I'll be up at the Eastern Outdoor & Sportsman Show for a few turkey hunting seminars and to check out gear, and I'm sure I'll learn a few tricks there.

I've got the usual camo clothing (using Advantage Timber) and a blind, and I have an old 870 Wingmaster that my grandpa gave me. He bought it about 30 years ago and never even assembled it. It got a coat of oil and was left in the closet until I started talking about turkeys last year. I ordered a Remington replacement barrel, 26" vented with RemChoke/LC, and a three-piece camo sleeve set for the stock, pump, and barrel, but it hasn't arrived yet.

As far as a bit about myself, I'm a 24-year-old print shop supervisor, married five years to my high school sweetheart. We live in Northern Virginia with our male lab mutt Diamond, and no kids. I'll be hunting public land in southwest Virginia as soon as the season starts, so I'm hoping, with some luck, that I'll bag one before the pressure builds up.

I'm also into whitetail hunting, but this was my first (and unsuccesful season). I worked a lot of overtime and came down with the flu during gun season, so that pretty much wrecked any hopes of making a harvest. But just being in the woods among the critters is what truly makes it all so memorable, so I'm looking toward and planning for next fall. I was lucky enough to secure about 50 acres of good private land in northeastern Maryland for the next deer season, so I'm just counting down the days.

I also do a little squirrel hunting with Diamond and my Rem 514. He has no pedigree or training, but his instinct is strong. He'll run them up a tree and bark like crazy, and that's good enough for me. He's generally good at retrieval, but sometimes he gets so excited that he runs back to me. We need to work on that.

Well, that's about it for me. I wish all of Team 5 the best of luck this spring! Let's make 'em holler!

Sounds like we've got a good squad of knowledgeable and dedicated hunters. I in Va, South Western Mountain region, I usually take some vacation time to travel south eastern VA to hunt the farmlands, and have had extremely good luck since I've started that hunt 4 years ago. I'm 28, last year was probably my best in the woods, I killed two gobblers over 22lbs, both with 10+" beards, and doubled up on BOTH of those hunts with another hunter, my dad being the first one, and a good friend the second. I say doubled up, we took two birds on the same hunt similtaneously. It was pretty cool. Spring gobbler huntin means more to me than any other hunting, bar none. My dad don't deer hunt, so it's a time that he and I have spent alot of quality time together, and we've both realized that working a turkey into 50 yards and not getting a shot is just as fun as calling one into 20 yards and taking it.

Aught Six....what part of SW Va will you be hunting?? you mentioned this is your first year out?? maybe we can get up together and do a hunt?? Holler back at me.