Dear Teammates,
After careful consideration of the existing scores of the other teams, I am now making an honest and reasonable announcement. I believe that the winners of the 2024 Old Gobbler Turkey Hunting Contest will be our Roaring 20's Team. The other teams may post additional gobblers between now and June 2nd, but their scores will not be sufficient to take the lead from us.
In no particular order, I would like to take a few moments to highlight some of the incredible individual efforts of woodsmanship and skills.
3seasons Starting out with a good gobbler he managed to upgrade over and over until posting a bird that just barely missed a score of 69. Scott traveled to a number of states and compiled an impressive total of 6 scored turkeys. Congratulations Scott!
Roost1 Travelled to whack the rios out west in California and Oregon as well as the easterns of his home state of Kentucky and New Jersey. His top scoring bird came in as one of our 70+ birds at 70.37. Congratulations Greg!
Cannonball With the possibility of missing the season due to a shoulder injury Cannonball shifted to the smaller gauges of 28 and .410 shotguns. Having done due diligence at the patterning board he felt very confident that birds were not going to be walking away from him. To prove his theory, he scored two giants this season including our team's top scoring gobbler, a mega-whopper scoring 71.34. Congratulations CB!
Honorable mention needs to go to AFhunter1 whose 69.06 beast drove us well over the other team scores into what has proved to be an insurmountable lead.
On a note of genetic interest are two birds taken by Zelmo1 and BBR13. Zelmo's incredible white bird was examined by the local biologists and was determined to probably be a domestic Royal Palm/Eastern hybrid. Amazing and beautiful bird. BBR13's big adult gobbler had snow white wing feathers with no barring. A true rare trophy bird. Congratulations guys.
2024 season will go down in The Roaring 20's history as the first championship title that we have worked so hard for and finally won. I am incredibly proud to be a part of this talented and crafty group and consider it a high honor to humbly be called your captain.
I also am proud to announce the official Roaring 20's 2024 Champions Redemption Banner upgrade. Wear it proudly as a medal for the stellar performance you gentlemen put in this season.
I have said it many times before and I will say it again, I love this sport!
Cheers ;D
FullChoke Captain
Congrats on a well deserved win!
Congrats to all....
I'd like to think yall for letting us join the team.
Special shout out to Calloway, I know for a fact he worked very hard to help the team with a very nice 67pt, while maintaining his focus of putting his son first.
Once again congrats to all, it's been a great time.
PS: shameless plug for any help anyone could provide me on a future hunt in MN.
Quote from: Roost 1 on May 26, 2024, 02:56:01 PMPS: shameless plug for any help anyone could provide me on a future hunt in MN.
I do believe that we can get you setup with some help for next season.
Congratulations!!! It's been a great time and there has been some work put in by everyone on the team. Despite a pretty rough season it's been a pretty good one too.
Appreciate all you do Norman!!
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Congrats everyone. Thanks for allowing Roost and me to join. Really enjoyed getting back into contest play. It's been a few years since and I always enjoy reading others experiences and sharing my own.
Thanks for the recognition! I was beginning to put a lot of pressure on myself to get one for the team and I'm so glad he ended up being as big as he was. He may be my heaviest bird ever.
Thanks everybody and congrats to us all!!! Can't wait to do it again next year!!!
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Congrats boys. You put together a great season. Enjoy the summer... cheers.
Hayudog- Guns and Hoses
Congratulations guys, it's definitely been a special year for all of us.
Enjoyed it again Norman. Thanks for putting the team together. There were some fine trophy's taken this year.
Quote from: Tom007 on May 25, 2024, 03:37:49 PMCongrats on a well deserved win!
Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say it was well deserved, but congrats to all of your team for pulling off the completely unforeseen and unexpected upset over the GOATS! ;D :angel9:
Congrats guys!! You came into the lead out of nowhere the last month. Awesome ending to your season!! :icon_thumright:
Thank you so much.
We were sitting quietly for a few weeks in 3rd place just 25 points back from the top with 1 more bird to finish out the 9. You and Killer B's were 1st and 2nd with all 9 birds so both of you could only upgrade your scores. When one of our northern members posted a nice bird of 69+ points for our 9, it pretty much cinched it for us.
Altogether, of our 9 scored birds, 6 had scores of over 67 points. This has been our first OG championship and our teammates really deserve the glory for it.
FC
Roaring 20's rocked the house! :you_rock:
Congrats to you All on a great season.