Strut10 Posted April 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2007 Still working on getting you all an alternate. Having problems getting people to PM me back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iabow Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 How's everyone doing? Been hearing mixed reports up here. I go back to the doctor on the 30th to get some x-rays taken. I've been putting some presure on my foot, so I'm optimistic that I might be able to sneak a day or two in hunting. My dad said he would help me out, setting up and all, just have to talk my mom into letting him lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michiganbowhunter_SQ2 Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 sorry to hear about your injury...as for hutning here, the season just started a few days ago, and it has been raining. but i didn't plan on hunting until this weekend, but my plans have been spoiled, my plans are to hunt up in the Upper peninsula on the farm i deer hunt...but that will have to wait until next week or the week after (a 7 hour drive) but i will be spending almost a week up there, and will hopefully be able to make it back up at least one more time before the end of the season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosse Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Any body on the team still chasin em. Havent heard anything in a while Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoyt_hunter Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 what's up guys. How are the turkeys treatin ya? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deerslayer10 Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Hey guys i finally got one last weekend just been busy repainting the house and aint had time to post pictures or nuttin but i will get the pictures on in a couple of days but the bird wieghted 20 pounds 10.5 inch beard and 1 and a quater spurs ...good luck to the rest of the team... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michiganbowhunter_SQ2 Posted May 4, 2007 Report Share Posted May 4, 2007 good job deerslayer...sounds like a good bird, Congrats!! can't wait to see the pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iabow Posted May 4, 2007 Report Share Posted May 4, 2007 Congrats on the bird!!! Good to hear you guys are still having fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestKyTeacher Posted May 5, 2007 Report Share Posted May 5, 2007 Hey guys, just returned from a week long trip to Oklahoma for FFA National Land Judging so I haven't bee able to hunt. Went this morning in the downpour and still only hens. Drove around looking in some fields I can hunt thinking the birds would be out and nothing. Going to dry off, eat, and head back out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iabow Posted May 9, 2007 Report Share Posted May 9, 2007 Hey guys, looks like I'm going to make out for a couple days after all!!! It's a little late in the season but better late then never. I got till the 20th. My dad is going to help me out and it will be good to share a blind with him. Landowner said there is quite a few birds around so hopefully. WKyTeacher what is the land judging about, do you judge the quality of the soil? Sorry if it's a stupid question but I've never heard of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deerslayer10 Posted May 10, 2007 Report Share Posted May 10, 2007 Hey guys...today while i was measuring the beard and spurs of my turkey my dog got a hold of my beard and tore it into little strands while a wasnt looking so i dont think they will let me post my bird for the team since i dont have a picture of the beard being measured...sorry guys....but i stilll have one more weekend left so hopefully i can get another and sorry again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestKyTeacher Posted May 11, 2007 Report Share Posted May 11, 2007 Not a stupid question at all. I didn't have a clue until FFA. It looks at the slope for erosion purposes, the type of soil, depth of the layers, and some other things I’m not too sure about. They also have range judging, which is mostly done out in western states, and home site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosse Posted May 19, 2007 Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 Aight team whats up. whats the scoop on everybody Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iabow Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Thanks WKTeacher, sounds pretty interesting. Well my season has ended, I got out 2 days. The first day we sat in the blind, had a beautiful dark hen come in right behind the decoy. She walked up behind it from 100+ yards after some clucking and light purring. The hen stood there for about ten minutes just cleaning herself and then started to walk off into the field stopping and looking back the whole time, on the edge was where we were sitting. She gets about 50 yds away and does a 180 and comes right back to the decoy, stands right behind it and after another couple min. begins to walk the fence line the decoy was facing. The entire time she would stop and look back at the decoy like "are you coming or what" lol, I think she wanted a friend. Well a short time latter on the other side of the field we set up. After ten minutes I look along the edge and 20 yds from the blind is a brownish looking hen dusting away. First time ever seeing that in the wild it was pretty cool. After 5 min. of dusting she walked right behind my decoy and walked off down the fence line. That was the first day no toms seen or heard. Our second adventure was better. We set up on that same field edge where the second hen came out. After about an hour of me calling we heard a distant gobble. So I called again and another gobble. Thinking the birds might have been pressured I played mr. soft and hard to get. They would gobble but were going away. So I thought what the heck lets have some fun with them, so I cranked it up, being very aggressive. Gobble, gobble double and triple gobbles from not one but 5 or 6 toms in different locales in three groups. So I kept on them if I quieted down they would start to walk away, but the more aggressive I got them more they closed the gap. Until two were booming right behind us, we could hear they’re feathers scratching the foliage and ground. It was my dad's first time hearing one spit and drum, he had to ask” what was that” later. They can thunder pretty loud when they are in your back pocket. About that time I big tom with a thick paint brush steps out in the field 40 or so yards away coming are way, along with two birds booming behind us and two or three more 200 yds away in the woods to our right. I was feeling pretty good right then, my plan of trying to get the toms to get to me before the other was working, playing em off one another. My heart was thumping, everything ready, release on bow, going through my checklist, calming my nerves, finally. Well wouldn't you know at that exact time the guy on the neighboring land drove his four wheel along the field fence, what timing. This is on a dead end road with no houses. Needless to say the tom in the field booked like nobody's business and the two behind us did the same. So I watched as he drove down his fence line in the wood edge and back not to be seen or heard from again. What timing. As for the three that were 200+ away to the right we found out where they were, across the river that I don't have permission for. After that ordeal thought I would play though, never heard so much gobbling in my life, 5 or 6, my dad said 6 I thought 5. Singing back ontop of one another trying to out do each other at my calls but after working them into a frenzy for 20 min. we decided to call it a day. My foot very sore and throbbing, worn out from walking with the crutches and disappointed over what had happened, we make it back to the truck just in time to hear my Cubbies blow a 5 run lead in the bottom of the 9th. What a day, I went home and had to soak the foot good with epsom salt and take a Pain Pill, things looked better after that LOL. I really enjoyed experiencing that with my dad right there though, we had a good time. Esp. seeing his face when he heard the drumming. Sorry I couldn't have put one up for us guys, I did try hard when I could go out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michiganbowhunter_SQ2 Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 been a while since i checked in here...our season ended last week, no luck here, this was my first season turkey hunting and defenitely not my last. been wanting to try it for a while and finally had the chance this year...really didn't see much of anything, and when i did, it was a hen...oh well, theres always next year i guess, sorry i didn't get any points for the team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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