Team 1 roll call

[eyeguy 54]

1 hour ago, 123fish said:

How do you guys rotate your pics when they are sideways before you submit them?

hold camera horizontal works dandy   no editing at all. 

 

[Cooter]

Congrats guys!  One more day before i head out, have a good chance of adding to team 1 stats, but never know.....

[PFUNK]

On 4/23/2016 at 0:10 PM, 123fish said:

Stick with it little Sniper it's going to happen. We are on the board again as I made up for my miss the other day this morning and shot a nice double bearded tom. I'll get him submitted and maybe a story later.

Nice! Looking forward to pictures and a story.

[Wallydog]

I'm done filling my 2 tags in ID and here are few images from this season so far.........I have 3 more youth hunters to put on birds then I'll make a move for my self in OR & WA

[123fish]

Here's my story. After my miss on Thursday I probably put on 70 miles trying to find another tom. The last place I checked had a tom and hen track where they had walked down the gravel road that morning. That was promising as the spot is just a few trees along a 25 ft. wide creek. I knew that if he stayed there he would hear me calling no matter where he roosted. The next day I didn't go there but went to my opening day spot and heard and saw nothing. Saturday I went to where I saw the track and set up in the dark. Had a hen and non strutting jake set up for decoys. He only gobbled once on the roost when a mallard hen started quacking loudly and he shock gobbled. He was a couple of hundred yards straight east of me. He came out of the tree before legal and was on the opposite side of the creek from me. dump! He gobbled like crazy on the ground and was answering my every call on the box call. I don't know if the hen was with him or not as I could not see either one. After about an hour he was still gobbling in the same spot. I called on the box and set it down. I was sitting there when I thought I heard wing beats. I looked over there and he pops out of the willows. Called him across the creek! Couldn't believe it. He is strutting the whole time as he VERY slowly makes his way across the recently burned switchgrass patch. Probaby took him a half hour to come 200 yards. He would gobble every time I called on the box. He gets about  50 yards away and stops. He is strutting and gobbling but would not come an inch closer. After missing the other day at 35 yards I didn't even consider a 50 yarder. All of a sudden he goes out of strut turns away from me and he is leaving no doubt about it. I quickly reached into my call bag and pulled out the Power Crystal and made a few purrs and a couple of clucks and he stops, looks over at me, gobbles and goes back into strut. Read about doing that once and had it work on a hung up gobbler in Nebraska for a buddy of mine that I was calling for a number of years back. Anyway he stays away from the jake decoy but is coming on over to check the hen out. I'm keeping my composure and when he is at 27 yards I let him have it. He falls forward and doesn't move or even twitch. His head is still up though and I keep him covered in case something bad happens. Within five seconds he lowers his head and that's it. I was on a WPA and had to use some Hevishot that I borrowed from my cousin. I was shocked how hard that stuff hit and how crappy it patterned. He had a shattered thigh bone, a broken wing, three pellets that had went through his vitals and went straight through him. I don't think there was a pellet in his head or neck. I never patterned the stuff because I thought there was a very good chance I would never fire a shell to start with or ever again on a WPA. I'm guessing maybe that's what wanderer meant when he said I should pattern the stuff and I might be surprised. 22lbs. and doubled bearded so that was pretty cool. Felt better about the miss on Thursday when it was all said and done. I will try to call a bird in for my buddy next week when he comes to hunt. Good luck to everybody still hunting especially Team One!

[PFUNK]

Congrats 123fish. Sounds like you put the effort in and it paid off for you big time. Way to go.

[x1957x]

good job 123fish! Still after them in Minnesota. I did get a 20lb. 10oz. Hybrid tom in southern Nebraska sunday with a 10" beard and 1 and 1/8" and a 7/8" spurs, Hoping to seal the deal in the next 2 weeks or so in Minnesota. Pictures later. You post pictures yet Tom?

[123fish]

Congrats on a nice tom 57. That's three for our team. I have a pic in Don's photo contest and my submission pics. Good luck in Minnesota.

[Cooter]

Nice job guys!  Good and bad news, saw a group of 3 dandies today along with a couple other respectable  toms, all with henslocked in strut.  They are there, just need to find one alone or drag a hen by, wind was horrible today.

[123fish]

Stick with it cooter and you will be rewarded. Weatherwise yesterday was poor at best at least here in southwest mn.

[Cooter]

What a shot in the crotch day, i dunno, shoulda coulda didnt, and the 3 big toms are across the road in the next section.  Rain, sleet, 3 toms alone that came in but no shot then the same 3 2 hours later gobbling their fool heads off but wouldnt come  into a jake and 4 hen setup, and they were henless.....dirty devils...

[Cooter]

Birds still on the neighbors, hunted a different spot this aft with a friend, we had a jake in our laps, she has only killed one but decided to pass.  Gorgeous day in the turkey woods!  Two of my buds scored today, one says he has some crazy video footage......

[123fish]

Your time is coming cooter. Hang in there.

[Cooter]

Well im down to a couple hours after work tomorrow, if not have a 5th season tag.  Had a hen go into strut at the decoys the other day, only for a second or two, saw the same thing last year but that one stayed in strut for quite a while.  Crazy birds....

[123fish]

Thanks leechlake.

57 are you going to register your Nebraska bird?

[x1957x]

23 hours ago, 123fish said:

Thanks leechlake.

57 are you going to register your Nebraska bird?

Fish, how does a guy post pictures etc. from my cell?

[123fish]

57, I am absolutely the last guy to ask advice about that. I still have a flip phone that I only power up and check once a day. Any pics I post are through the help of the wife. I'll bet there are a bunch of guys on here that can help you though.

[Borch]

3 hours ago, x1957x said:

Fish, how does a guy post pictures etc. from my cell?

When posting in the submission forum with your phone, you will see an option to choose files to attach. Click it.   Depending on the cell phone you will locate where the pictures are stored(gallery, camera, etc).  Select them and upload.  You will need to click the "+" symbol on the picture once it's uploaded to put into your post wherever your curser is located int eh text box.  Depending on how the picture was taken they may be flipped but they will be there.

[Wallydog]

Last 10 days update.  Got youngens 3-4-5 their birds and made a trip to Eastern OR to put the wood to a nice bird for myself last Saturday.  Heading to NE WA tomorrow for a little work and some gobbler chasin.

[DonBo]

[Borch]

Living the dream....

 

What a nice spring you've had so far.

[Cooter]

On the board, got one that i had passed on Tuesday  morning, guess i was trigger happy today.  Not a big one but just over 20 with a 9 beard and 3/4 spurs.  Will enter him monday.

[123fish]

Way to go cooter! Nothing wong with that nice two year old. Looking forward to the story and pics. Now if we can get 57 to figure out how to upload his bird we will have four with little archery sniper still a possibility. 

[Cooter]

I might hunt next week back where the bigger 3 are, landowner is with his kid this week, no one hunting the last season.  Not sure how that works here if i get another but go archery sniper!

[DonBo]

Congrats Cooter. Only your first bird is elligable for the contest.

I have a feeling archerysniper will still spend some quality time in the blind with his daughter.