The Happy Eggshell Challenge Cup

[boomer]

Okay fine folks and Gobblenut...season kicks off here for me in central Florida on Saturday(i tried to count the hours but run out of body protrusions). Looking forward to hopefully using this scale i had to get from the fishing section of my local time machine that is our Walmart.

Good luck on Saturday!

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[eggshell]

good luck

[GobbleNut]

Okay fine folks and Gobblenut...season kicks off here for me in central Florida on Saturday(i tried to count the hours but run out of body protrusions). Looking forward to hopefully using this scale i had to get from the fishing section of my local time machine that is our Walmart.

Go get 'em tomorrow!  We need a gobbler on the board so I can see what one looks like.  Oh, and it's good that you excluded me from that "fine folks" category.  I have worked way too hard on my rep over the years to get labeled as a "fine folk" this late in life!    

[Happy]

Good luck and enjoy yourself. Hope you have good weather and lots of gobbling turkeys.

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[ManfromGreenSwamp]

Well, it was horrid turkey conditions...overcast, cold, windy.
Happened to strike a double gobble pair after fly down. Set up doing wayyyy too much clipping for two, in a pinch, on a field edge where I took a bird last year. Same .25acre my friend, the land owner, slap missed a monster at 25 yards. The birds didn't do a lot of gobbling until they were near, and truthfully I had just called too much(fresh out the gate opening day flub). The next thing I know, there's 4 gobblers trying to come from behind us, that's we're they KNEW the calling was taking place. This bird flew through the thick and landed at 15yards near the decoys and immediately stood tall, peeping into my "newly made, made from scratch, blind-to-hide-two fat-boys". I Knew it wasn't but another half second of this posture and his next move was flying the coop with a piercing cluck! I told my buddy better take him now, and boy...he didn't miss this season! One in hand better two in bush type thing. After that, we couldn't get the others to commit to entering the feild from our blindside after a few hour waiting game .

So happy to be a part of this hunt. Everything can still go wrong and you pull it out.

the new Dawkins shorty had them on a string .

A-TEam that can't decide at 70 snood raider mermen is still not on the board. "Almost" is in horseshoes and hand grenades, boys!
I'll go tomorrow and try try again in a county two hours south of this one that's one hour north...Savvy?

9-7/8" x 1-1/16" x 15lb 15oz
Opening morning Osceola



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[leaf shaker]

Congrats !!!

[eggshell]

anytime a gobbler eats dirt it's a job well done

[boomer]

Congrats on a successful hunt!

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[ManfromGreenSwamp]

Thanks fellers!
Well...we won't be on the board today, either. Got up at 4am, made breakfast, washed my stank, stepped outside......raining!? WTH didn't see that in any forecast! Needless to say, I'm not going, I'll just go to work. May slip out this week a morning or two, if we can return back to the 70,80,90°s...
Every single season, opening weekend we get some front that you can set your watch by and it dips down in temp, turkeys go all but silent here when that happens after two months of gorgeous early summer like weather. Dreary, cold, overcast, windy, wet days are putrid in La Florida for the gobble.
As much as I like turkeys and the woods, I'd personally rather hear them and have better interaction.

Imma need a few more days...
On the bright side, I used the cheap digital wallyworld scale yesterday on my friends bird. Worked great. I tested it on a measured gallon of water. It's surprisingly dead accurate...who would've guessed?!

[Happy]

Well good luck. Gotta drag it out as long as you can just to get the most out of it. I try to anyways

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[Happy]

Just stood out on my back deck and listened to 3 gobblers going nuts. One right on the edge of my property. Then two owls started arguing making him gobble even more. Been a good morning. Even though I have permission to hunt the neighboring property these birds are safe. I just like listening to them and calling them in occasionally.

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[eggshell]

Just stood out on my back deck and listened to 3 gobblers going nuts. One right on the edge of my property. Then two owls started arguing making him gobble even more. Been a good morning. Even though I have permission to hunt the neighboring property these birds are safe. I just like listening to them and calling them in occasionally.

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I am the same way, it's not that I won't kill one at the house property, but I hold them for reserve if I need one late season. In 33 years I have killed one spring gobbler here. The family has 1,000 acres about 10 minutes away, so I leave my house birds for entertainment. Occasionally someone comes in from the neighbor's and gets close, but it is a long tough hike to my place and out, so not often. All the locals know not to tread on my place.

[ManfromGreenSwamp]

Update...though not much of one.
Haven't been able to get out of work. Friday I'll be in the woods casing a few.


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[Happy]

Update...though not much of one.
Haven't been able to get out of work. Friday I'll be in the woods casing a few.


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Casing? Pray do tell what casing is. Sounds illegal.

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[ManfromGreenSwamp]

Update...though not much of one.
Haven't been able to get out of work. Friday I'll be in the woods casing a few.


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Casing? Pray do tell what casing is. Sounds illegal.

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* chasing lol!
Smart phone run by a dummy!


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