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Title: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: aclawrence on March 07, 2019, 01:00:03 PM
Here we go team.  We can post our turkey kills here.  Remember to post pictures of the tape measure and scale numbers. 

Use this to calculate your scores
http://oldgobbler.com/checkstation.htm

"Turkey Talley"
Camotoe       3/8/19        28.75
FMF              3/16/19      53.75
Arlo              4/1/19       57.50
Aclawrence        4/3/19      56.88
Notsure      4/18/19   57.65
Benniegobbler   4/20/19   57.63
Bigbird      4/24/19   64.50 (spurs check)

Total Score                       376.66
Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: camotoe on March 08, 2019, 08:25:59 PM
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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: camotoe on March 08, 2019, 08:28:50 PM
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190309/adeb33b473d0f09db7cb84ef449722ea.jpg). It’s not letting me load the other spur ,


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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: camotoe on March 08, 2019, 08:37:56 PM
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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: camotoe on March 08, 2019, 08:38:22 PM
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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: zelmo1 on March 09, 2019, 06:53:51 AM
First kill!!! Congrats bro  :turkey2:
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Post by: BennieGobbler on March 10, 2019, 09:05:07 AM
Way to go!! 


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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: fmf on March 10, 2019, 10:08:23 AM
on the board! congrats
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Post by: fmf on March 16, 2019, 10:15:20 PM
18 pounds
9 1/8 " beard
7/8's spurs
score = 53.75

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Post by: BennieGobbler on March 16, 2019, 10:15:57 PM
Awesome!


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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: fmf on March 16, 2019, 10:17:43 PM
measurement pics
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Post by: fmf on March 16, 2019, 10:18:47 PM
measurement pics
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Post by: bigbird on March 17, 2019, 07:36:40 AM
Nice one
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Post by: camotoe on March 17, 2019, 08:30:19 AM
Congrats


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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: notsure on March 17, 2019, 04:19:06 PM
Good job!
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Post by: zelmo1 on March 17, 2019, 07:17:10 PM
Nice bird bro. I am dying up here  :OGturkeyhead:
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Post by: JoeA on March 25, 2019, 03:01:05 PM
Great job guys! There's some nice looking longbeards hitting the deck. Keep it up.
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Post by: BennieGobbler on March 25, 2019, 03:08:53 PM
Keep up the good work!!  I am getting anxious for April 6th.  Youth Day Opener....Guiding a young man for the VA game department and NWTF hunt.
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Post by: zelmo1 on March 25, 2019, 06:21:49 PM
Nice bird bro
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Post by: Arlo on March 27, 2019, 09:10:20 AM
Pictures
Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: Arlo on March 27, 2019, 09:11:18 AM
More pictures
Left Spur just over 7/8
Right Spur just under 7/8
Weight 17.6
Beard 8"
Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: Arlo on March 27, 2019, 09:12:23 AM
and more.  Sorry for the multiple pictures my PC is having trouble this morning.
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Post by: Arlo on March 27, 2019, 09:13:01 AM
Last one
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Post by: BennieGobbler on March 27, 2019, 09:14:12 AM
Awesome Bird!!!


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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: fmf on March 27, 2019, 10:03:29 AM
good one!!
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Post by: zelmo1 on March 27, 2019, 10:27:33 AM
Nice bird bro. Hopefully my bird, if I am blessed, will put us over the top, lol. I only have 5 weeks to wait till I can hunt. May 1st opener  :OGturkeyhead:
Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: notsure on March 27, 2019, 03:23:22 PM
Great bird. I'm chomping at the bit for MN Season A to get here! Only 3 weeks to go!
Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: Arlo on April 01, 2019, 11:02:18 AM
Upgrade Bird 
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Post by: Arlo on April 01, 2019, 11:04:45 AM
Upgrade Pictures
PS  Its hard to take a picture of your self with a Turkey!  Just saying
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Post by: BennieGobbler on April 01, 2019, 11:18:50 AM
Awesome!!!


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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: zelmo1 on April 01, 2019, 11:31:36 AM
Congrats bro, nice bird  :drool:
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Post by: camotoe on April 01, 2019, 06:49:00 PM
Keep them coming


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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: aclawrence on April 02, 2019, 03:52:28 PM
Don’t know what’s up with that one goofy short spur?  I guess he didn’t realize he was going to be going on a score card lol.


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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: aclawrence on April 02, 2019, 04:00:30 PM
Hang on I just punched 19.6 into the weight for the old Gobbler calculator but technically that’s incorrect. It says to convert your ounces into decimal form. To do this you have to multiply the ounces x .0625. So instead of 19.6 it would be 19.375. Not sure if any of y’all might have made the same mistake. I will go back to edit mine.


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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: aclawrence on April 02, 2019, 04:04:58 PM
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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: notsure on April 02, 2019, 11:27:18 PM
Great bird, and I've never seen such a difference in spur length. From your picture, it doesn't appear that the shorter spur was broken off either.
Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: zelmo1 on April 03, 2019, 04:25:53 AM
Nice job bro
Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: aclawrence on April 03, 2019, 01:16:09 PM
Quote from: notsure on April 02, 2019, 11:27:18 PM
Great bird, and I've never seen such a difference in spur length. From your picture, it doesn't appear that the shorter spur was broken off either.
No I don’t think it was broken.


Hey guys, I struck again this morning!


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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: aclawrence on April 03, 2019, 03:12:05 PM
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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: fmf on April 03, 2019, 09:15:13 PM
heck yeah! good birds!
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Post by: zelmo1 on April 04, 2019, 06:39:30 AM
Every bird gets better , keep it up  :drool:
Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: notsure on April 18, 2019, 12:03:24 AM
MN Season A opened this morning, and I managed to score a nice bird around 7:40 AM. The morning started out with deer snorting at the apparent stench I was emitting. After they took off, a hen showed up a sunrise and stuck around the decoys (hen and jake setup) for awhile. As she was about to leave, a second hen appeared, and the two of them decided to mill around for another ten minutes or so. Just then, I glimpsed two very large birds start to descend upon my decoy spread. When they were withing about 30 feet or so of the decoys, I realized they were a pair of immature bald eagles looking for breakfast. Thankfully, they decided something was wrong with their perspective "meal", and soared off without making a sound. As far as I know, the two hens remained unfazed throughout the entire ordeal. Anyway, seven more hens emerge from the treeline about 200 yards to my south and quickly made a beeline it to my spread. They were led by an extremely agitated and vocal bearded hen, who decided to lay the smack down on about three other hens as they approached the decoys. So, now the entire group of nine hens moved off to my east, but continued responding to soft yelping. Still no gobblers. Well, about ten minutes go by, and the hens again began returning to the decoy spread. I offered up a few yelps and purrs, and then a loud gobble sounds off to my south. Turning my head away from the hens, I spotted two large gobblers approaching my position. I yelped once and they decided to stop and strut. When they started approaching again, I shut up and let them continue. These guys were on a mission, and even as the group of hens migrated to my west, they continued to run straight for the decoys. And boy did they let the poor jake have it! With both of them completely distracted, I grabbed my shotgun, turned on the Tacticam and blasted the first one that decided to extend his neck. What a morning, and what a hunt! And I'll never forget those eagles! I actually was more than a bit nervous that those two might mistake me for something edible! A second post will include the closeups and score sheet.
Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: notsure on April 18, 2019, 12:33:59 AM
The gobbler was weighed on a scale at Archery Headquarters, Rochester, MN.
The beard length was between 9.5 and 10" (depending upon what you define as the hairline, and how strong you pull on the beard to straighten it out), so I decided to be conservative and go with 9.5"


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Post by: zelmo1 on April 18, 2019, 04:26:59 AM
Nice chubby bird bro, congrats  :turkey2:
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Post by: camotoe on April 19, 2019, 10:49:24 AM
Sweet last weekend for us , moved to a new spot along the Kissimmee river . One hen so far and a big black faced fox squirrel . Cool


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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: BennieGobbler on April 20, 2019, 04:47:32 PM
Tagged a decent bird today here in VA. Also got one in Hawaii last Sunday but didn’t have stuff for original measurements for weight. Good start. 2 birds in less than a week!!
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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: zelmo1 on April 20, 2019, 07:55:55 PM
Nice bird brother  :drool:
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Post by: notsure on April 20, 2019, 08:03:10 PM
Great looking bird!
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Post by: jryser on April 20, 2019, 10:28:02 PM
Iowa 2019 with Greg from THP filming!

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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: camotoe on April 21, 2019, 08:48:01 AM
Some nice birds there


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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: bigbird on April 24, 2019, 12:03:55 PM
I had some luck in Indiana this morning. Opening morning double (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190424/92d64d34f33e53706a93b35053f9cc81.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190424/dd7b6a5a9391463c87eb1780cb18c1c4.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190424/027589581d5f3e9553dffae42d26194c.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190424/d6a893cde75adaef2f9371fe6eac574c.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190424/89cf322f7ca7aa8e2a73a21dd64c86b5.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190424/8e93efc31abe8cb6fde8333146b84934.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190424/35c02e6e03389ea79edda5ee71e32f32.jpg)


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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: aclawrence on April 24, 2019, 01:36:12 PM
That’s awesome. Congrats Bigbird. I’ve been getting my freaking butt kicked in Alabama the last two weeks. I thought this week they would be alone and on fire but I don’t know what’s the deal.


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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: aclawrence on April 24, 2019, 01:39:43 PM
Quote from: jryser on April 20, 2019, 10:28:02 PM
Iowa 2019 with Greg from THP filming!

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That’s a pretty bird!  Are you on our team jryser? 


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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: zelmo1 on April 25, 2019, 06:02:56 AM
That is a true paintbrush  :drool:
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Post by: jryser on April 25, 2019, 11:22:29 AM
Quote from: aclawrence on April 24, 2019, 01:39:43 PM
Quote from: jryser on April 20, 2019, 10:28:02 PM
Iowa 2019 with Greg from THP filming!

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That’s a pretty bird!  Are you on our team jryser? 


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I don’t know!  I can be!!!

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There’s a good view of that broom!!! 


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Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: aclawrence on May 07, 2019, 10:08:30 PM
Hey Bigbird, I was just looking at your pics.  That is a stud turkey.  It does look like the spurs are 1 1/8 though and not 1 1/4".  That would be 1.125 instead of 1.25.  Could you have mis read the tape measure or maybe I'm not seeing it right because of the angle.  Let me know what you think and I can adjust the score if I need to.  Just trying to make sure everything looks correct in all the pics while I'm updating our score.  Thanks
Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: zelmo1 on May 08, 2019, 05:13:02 PM
That looks great bro. I hope I can do my part.
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Post by: zelmo1 on May 12, 2019, 08:26:46 AM
I had an awesome day yesterday, tripled with my wife and daughter  :funnyturkey:. Not a big bird and I screwed up on checking the pics. My wife took the pics and only shot the scale weight, smh. My fault for not checking. Good bird but nothing spectacular al except for the memory. It was 19.9 pounds, 9 1/4” beard, 7/8 and 15/16 spurs. I liked the score at the checking station better, lol. Kid was frazzled checking 3 at a time  :funnyturkey:

56.525 per old Gobbler score sheet
Title: Re: Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread
Post by: aclawrence on May 19, 2019, 07:23:48 PM
Awesome! I’ll get it added to the list 


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