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Lets see the turkey pics


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All your smiles in theese pictures tells it all, BEN FRANKLIN was right!!!They are awesome birds they are ugly but yet there the most beautiful!!Very hard to beat on the dinner table!And real hard to top the stories and memories of great hunts , congratulations to all!

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If your kids are not yet old enough, grown and gone or you just run out of nieces and nephews grin, mentoring the youth turkey hunt is very rewarding.

Youth and his mother.

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The youth I mentored this year tagged a triple bearded tom. Two 7 inch and a 6 inch.

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Limbhangers look like this

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This fine Rio Grande was harvested by a 12 yr old on Easter Sunday a.m. west Of Boise in a controlled hunt zone.

I'd called 6 longbeards into gun range before he whacked this terrific 3 yr old plus bird and all between 7 a.m. & 7:25 a.m. We had gun/shooter malfunctions, birds too close, you name it but this mentored youth went home with a stunning bird. 10.5" beard, 1 1/4" spurs and probably north of 20#

got home in time for church!

WD

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My bird I shot opening morning of season A. My cousin's bird with mine after he shot his bird on the evening hunt. (I had mine stashed in the bait fridge waiting to be cleaned.)

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Well got my first eastern finally in this jake.

That is 2 for 2 for me this year and a first time to fill both tags. It was a great year and I am already counting the days till next year.

My jake by Rushford taken May 2.

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And again my merriam from the Black Hills taken April 18.

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Actually that is my Minnesota turkey from yesterday morning. My Nebraska bird is the one entered in the contest. This bird was roosted on a little two acre patch of woods where I hoped he would be. He started gobbling on the roost early so I waited until legal and gave him a few yelps to let him know where I was. He answered each time and I waited until I heard him fly down and gave him a little more yelping and a few clucks. He came out of that little chunk of woods right where I figured he would. Called to him a little and he saw the single hen decoy and strutted in the whole way to where I was set up 125 yards away. Legal time was 5:39 a.m. and I pulled the trigger at 5:55 a.m. It made up for the times where you sit for hours and don't see a thing. 23 lbs., 7.25" beard, .75" spurs. Thanks for posting the pic Borch.

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Here is my first turkey. Nothing special, just a youngin' 3-4 inch beard, but still fun to call, and beautiful coloring.

I've avoided them till now, because I knew I would become hooked.

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