This will be my fourth season & got my only 2 birds to date in my second season a 22lb. tom and a 13lb. jake...looking to get 2 more this season!!!!!![:-] Brampton Mike [8D]

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This is 3rd year, got first bird 6th week 2nd form last day out of a tree.
21 pds, 1 1/4 spurrs, 11 inch beard

I've spent 21 glorious springs in the turkey woods. In those years I've taken about 109 hunting trips to 33 different states, and usually hunt about 65-70 days per year in 8-10 states. Killed my first bird back in '83 (1st year) during an intense thunderstorm, and wrote a story about it for Outdoor Life that was published in Oct of '87.

i started in 2000, and my first turkey was
weight 22 1/2#
triple beard 10 1/2, 8 1/2, 7 1/2
spurs 1 1/8, 1 1/8

heres a pix of the beards

this will be my 3rd year and nothing to show for it yet.......

this year will be year number 6....my first bird was last year.....i had chances at turkeys every year.....but never took a shot....always had an excuse...thought it was too far..or to thick or something.....but in reality i now know a 12ga will do alot more then i thought...but i was young and learning......i dont regret not taking shots...i could wounded or missed them birds so im glad i didnt.....last spring i went hunting the second day myself...dad worked and i was finally 16 adn could hunt myself...it was my first time hunting alone...i went behind the house to where i scouted birds for a long time all by myself....8am i was tagging my first turkey...9 inch beard and 3/4 inch spurs....not huge but i think its a very respectable first turkey...and i did it all myself..from scouting to the hunt and the calling......noone helped me.....then i got my second this fall......a hen......all alone again....i was small game hunting mainly pheasants but looking for turkeys as well....she flushed high in the tree tops and i shot..first shot was a ligh 1 1.8th ounce load...second was a steel 2 3/4 inch mag.....she dropped out of the sky.....this year i just want to do some calling......hopefully call dad in a bird.....thats the funnest part......

I have been chasing turkeys now for 10 years now. I went 4 years before getting one, but when I did I was hooked. My biggest bird to date is 21lbs 11" beard 1-1/4" spurs taken in SE Ohio.

This is either my 8th or 9th year huntin turkeys...and I've only gotten 1. Took me awhile to do it, but hearing those gobbles for the first time had me hooked...

Anyways, I'm gonna go cry now because I feel really old...

I believe this is my 24th year though I only went once or twice that first year..The next year I was able to bag my first turkey a small jake that today I'm still as proud of as the biggest gobbler I've ever taken!!That first tom is something special.....
Boy have times changed and somehow I've gotten fatter!!!