Team # 5 Date Breakers

[Nightcrawler]

cooter will e-mail. do only the 4 biggest count? i thought they all counted. when i e-mail only get it to send one picture at a time.

[123fish]

Absolutely an excellent job Nightcrawler. Congrats on a very nice bird. Can't wait to see the pics and hear the story. Cooter you better register your bird in case Icehawk doesn't get his registered.

[Cooter]

Check out this beauty by Nightcrawler:

[Nightcrawler]

cooter, could you register my turkey for me ?, thank you .

would be nice to see everyones birds.

nightcrawler

[Nightcrawler]

the week was a week of getting busted, i swear my camo was glow-in-the-dark. seen birds on every sit, toms to far out and hens on top of me, nothing like having live dekes. decoys and calling stopped the toms in their tracks and would hang up.

Wed nite put 3 hens and 1 tom to roost.

Thursday morning situp tight up to the roost next to a freshly dugup corn field. 6:15 4 hens flew down right over my son and I landing 20 ft. in front of us.they then fed their way down the field.

Two toms gobbled up to 20yds from us in the wood then turned around and left. [well, my week all over agian.]

THEN we decided to make a move on them,got out in the open ,THEN out steps 3 hens and the 2 toms struting and starting gobbling. we freeze,,,,,, the hens look then head to field and start to feed, toms do not move???

OUT pops a HOT hen clucking and goes right out in the field all 80yds from us and move down the field. we melt to the ground and get cover. 20 min.later they feed past us 25yds 8 hens then the tom. BOOM, dropped like a rock. was great to have my son take the day off and be with me. made my hunt.

[123fish]

Good job Nightcrawler and great story. I'll bet your son thought that was pretty cool when you dropped the hammer on that tom and with all the action going on. Defintely a nice upgrade for the Datebreakers.

[Cooter]

Yep, I can get yours registered. Still waiting on pics from my bro for mine - 10 days left I believe, I'll get it done.

[Nightcrawler]

A lot of dirt talking between team 4 and 8, they don't know we are just sleeping.

[Tom Linderholm]

So with a double beard how does that score? From what I can tell we aren't sitting too bad with what we have put on the board.

[Cooter]

I believe they use the NWTF scoring system without separating 'typicals' from 'non-typicals'. So you should get bonus points for the double beard.

[Borch]

Yep.

[123fish]

Borch you once said Icehawk had a bird to register. Did you ever hear from him again? Just wondering what his bird had for stats.

[Borch]

I don't recall the stats. But he did get a bird.

[Tom Linderholm]

Alright guys, we need to get some more birds on the scoreboard. Nothing like waiting till the last minute!

[Cooter]

You love the suspense!

[Nightcrawler]

nice going Cooter ,doing a double hit on the teams

[Tom Linderholm]

Excellent double Cooter, now the question is, is there an upgrade from IceHawk out there?

[Nightcrawler]

the last 4 years in hunting N.Y. state have been hunting this one bird . he lived in a 40 acre swamp with 5 ft cane grass all around it.could call him up to but not in gun range or cicrle around. he didn't MY decoyes.

Bro-in-law calls , says the last day of the season , a 12 year old and his dad , put out a hen deke, crawled in my nest , 2 scrapes on the box call, HE comes running out of the swamp. 10 yds hammer down. young hunters frist turkey with proud a dad . 25.1/2 lbs , 1.1/2in. spurs, 12 in. beard.

now will have to go out and train another one.

[Cooter]

I just snooped on the NWTF HSOforum and mine should score about 44 and Nightcrawlers 68. That should put us at a total of about 225 - or the lead for now. So if nobody else is playing possum like us....

[Tom Linderholm]

Ohhhhh.....lookout! Sleeper Cell!

[123fish]

Well Nightcrawler that bird would have been a major upgrade for sure. Hard not to root for the kid though even if you are on my team. He's going to remember that one for a lifetime.

[Nightcrawler]

i think it is great that he got it.

team 8 ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZing

[Cooter]

Looks like we got 2nd place! Great job all, it was fun.

[Nightcrawler]

2nd place? , not bad. we all had great hunts and a good time.

still have the turkey shakes, still quiver when i see turkeys in the field, thinking on a move on them.

well, just another 10 months.