Team 18 -
Matthewgentry -
Reeve025 -
Nebamahunter -
bamaeyedoc -
buckbrush -
Powpow65 -

Ok guys! Good to see y'all! Throw a team name in the hat and we'll figure it out in a few days. Where y'all gonna be hunting? I'll be in Bullock, Macon, Butler, and Lowndes.

Dr. B

Hey All. I'll be hunting Marion,Winston, Lawrence, and Jackson counties as well as KY,TN,MO and NE. Hope everyone has a great season. I'm good on whatever name we decide.

Team number reminds me of the Alice Cooper song.... Anybody been scouting/listening? I may get out and check some cameras today.

Dr. B

First season trying this so not sure what I'm doing... but I get in the woods a lot when family is healthly.

I'll be in Jackson County mainly, trip to El Dorado TX and possibly trip to FL pending on what happens in life

And I haven't been out listening but I've been checking cameras every weekend on a new place for past 5 weeks trying to figure out what/where/when birds are using and found a pile of hens... bound to be a gobbler or two amongst them the next time I check (3/11/17 to be exact)

Sorry to be "that guy", I read the rules but gotta admit I'm still struggling on the details. Do we post up all our kills in this thread and someone keeps a tally that's reported to someone who's keep overall team scores? Do birds have to be Easterns only or best scores from total of 3 birds regardless of how many we kill?... and my name's Kyle btw

I'm here. I'll be mainly be hunting Coosa County and possibly Washington if I can make a trip down there. I'm also supposed to be taking a trip to FL.

I've done alittle scouting. Seen a group with 3 longbeards in it last weekend so hopefully they stay in the same place.

NE, there is a seperate post to enter the birds in the contest. You either have to be in pic or have something with team name written on it in pic and then submit the score you get off the NWTF website from bird's measurements. Of course we'll be happy to see them also so you can post the pics here also.

your three highest bird scores will be counted. So if you kill a a bird that scores higher than any of your other 3 entered then the new bird will replace lowest scoring bird

This. Of course once the season starts, you will see how folks post their birds and score so you will get the hang of it. Yekrut will update board weekly or thereabouts.

Dr. B

Hey y'all, I'm a newbie to turkey hunting as well. I'll be hunting Coosa, DeKalb/Etawah,Chilton, Atauga and possibly Jackson. No plans to go out of state.

Two weeks ago, gonna try to get out there this weekend

Definitely post share your pics here and let the team enjoy your success. Also if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask. I hope everyone will participate but don't take it to serious this is all in good fun.

Looks like they are still grouped up good powpow. You get in on them early and catch them on their winter pattern.

I agree! Just hunt and have fun!

Anyone getting out this weekend with a youth?

I wish I could but have to work.

We need a team name any suggestions. My last team name was "Smokin Tom's" we can use that again or any other ideas.

Smokin' Toms, Smashin' Beaks, Boots on Necks,

I'm just rambling here... Don't care what name is as long as we post some kills!

Dr. B

I'll throw Thunder Chicken Chokers in there. All sound good to me. I'm so ready to get back in the woods, I was trying to find a kid to take but we don't really know any in that age range. Little man is still a few years away but he would love to go!

I'll be hunting mostly in cleburne county but will be hunting GA a good bit also

Creeping' Toms. Lol

Could care less about the name but here's few more for the hat:

"Jake Stoppers"
"Flock Busters"
"Turkey Terrors"
"Missed Again"
"Belly Crawlers"
"Paintbrush pluckers"
"Seasonal Insomniacs" --- it's already started for me, haven't slept a good night since the 9th when last checked cameras and looked for sign, I've got a problem that hunting 45 days of season won't fix.

And another thing, I'm assuming it's only birds I pull the trigger on? I go with a lot of folks to play caller for them and usually let them pull the trigger unless shot just doesn't allow.

Yes only enter birds that you pull the trigger on but you can post the birds you had a hand in killing on this thread. I agree 45 days ain't enough that's why I hit Northern states in May.

I Like Turkey Terrors. We can go with that with no objections.

I'm good with any name.

sorry about being out of pocket all weekend. i was playing roulette with 3 of my nephews all weekend trying to get them on a turkey. Now i'm ready to wednesday so i can be the one with the gun! got a new setup with some tss that i'm ready to test out on ones noggin!

Okay it's official I entered our name.
Turkey Terrors

Sounds good to me, what is the weather supposed to be like up in NE Alabama Friday and Saturday?

Alright... at least I contributed something to the team if I have an off year

Heard one this morning in Macon county. Started at 630 when I blew my Houndstooth hooter at him. 1st gobble of the year and man did I get chills! I owled a few more times just to listen to him and eased back to the truck and was gone by 645. Putting him on ice for later this week, God willing!

Dr. B

Weather is going to be cold but I'm hoping the wind won't be blowing to hard with clear Sky's. I don't expect to hear much gobbling this week but you never know. The plan is to get in a good listening spot and hopefully hear one open up. If not atleast we should be able to see a lot of tracks in green fields and roads so I will be patient and wait one out in a heavy traveled area and let out a few yelps ever once in a while in hopes one shows up.

Well I'm not gonna be able to get in the woods till Friday morning, debating DeKalb co or Coosa, I know a couple good spots in both I want to hit first

I hope everyone thats hunting tomorrow has their gameplan figured out. I'm still trying to decide on which plan I want to go with....

Brrrrr. Good luck all tomorrow. Stay safe.

Good luck fellers! I'm not near as upset about not being able to go in the morning as I would have been if it was 20 degrees warmer

Got us some points this morning. He not a monster but I'm not complaining either!

Congrats Reeve. Way to start it out. I heard one gobble a few times when loggers started up but besides that just sitting here freezing my butt off.

Nice! Good start

Heck yeah! Congrats man! I thought I was gonna post one up too but just didn't work out. I'm penciled in for tomorrow tho for a rematch!

Dr. B

I could've spit on a cpl hens around 830 but nobody talking through 1130AM when I threw in the towel this morning. Coldest I ever been on turkey hunt and first time hunting them while sleeting. Try again tom.

If I can get photobucket to work then I'll upload some pics. It wasn't a real exciting hunt until they were in front of me trying to attack decoys. They never gobbled. I had 3, all 2 yr olds, come in and make me watch them for 10 min b/c they wouldn't seperate out for me to get a shot on the strutter in the group.

He scored 58 points. Was 18lbs 12 ozs, 15/16 and 1 inch spurs, 9 15/16 beard.

Just excuse my ugly mug in the pic!




Here's the other 2 still sticking around.

Niec and attaboy! U shoot through the mesh panel in a ground bldin on that one?

Yeah I did. It has replacement windows that velcro on.

First bird with my new setup. I joined the tss bandwagon this year

I'm in same boat with TSS... 870 compact and #9's... I know it was easier to carry this morning than the 835 I've been hauling around for over 20yrs. Now, whether it's a comparable killing machine I have yet to prove.

Damn man. Just look at him and he'll fall over dead! You're a intimidating looking dude! LOL

Congrats again!

Dr. B

doc i got an appointment with my hair girl this afternoon to try look alittle less intimidating. can't be scaring these birds off before they get in gun range!

you have the rematch with the bird from yesterday morning?

i'm running a franchi compact 20 and it was a heck of alot easier toting it yesterday morning. i got a yildiz O/U that i want to setup for a backup gun. when i do i doubt i ever carry a 12 ga again.

My next o/u will be a Franchi. NEbama 870 in 9's is a deadly combo it throws better patterns than any of my other guns although I rarely take it.

Naw. I over thought things and went to my Bullock co. spot instead. They like to hang out in this little pasture and I could get in an old horse stall and stay a little warmer. I put some decoys out but only I heard 4 early gobbles waaaay off and never heard a peep afterwards. Pretty morning but no turkeys even close to me. I took all morning off last two days and will have to hunt my spot real close to office tomorrow because I gotta be in at 9. The saga continues...

Dr. B

Back at it. Time to get it done. Very least I won't be freezing my butt off this morning. Good luck all.

Just got to my listening spot. Good luck to everyone hunting!

He Dead. Pics when I get back.

Hell yes! Congrats!

Dr. B

congrats buckbrush!

mine never said a peep. I'll be back after them in the morning where close to where I killed the one wed morning.

Congrats! I got skunked this morning. First time ever turkey hunting, felt like I went to school in my underwear

1st for the year was a good one.

Well I've been past 3 days and have 21 hrs in the woods so far and heard 4 gobbles from a bird that was within workable distance... and his hen let me have it and took him the opposite direction.

But with all that said, big event in our household yesterday afternoon as my wife finally connected on her first bird... a 15.5 lb, double bearded jake! She missed on opening day 4 yrs ago and only been back once since then because she was so mad at em. ha. No points for our team but I got meat in the freezer... I'll post a pic later.

You must have a pocket full of rabbits feet unless I'm misunderstanding your post! 1st time you've never killed on a hunt or firs time never hearing a gobble? I get skunked 80% of the time and probably don't hear a bird on 25% of my hunts.

Dang at the spurs! Congrats! I have a 6 yr old has to be in every dead animal picture we take and has been since he was 2 yrs old. Maybe we've got a cpl little future killers (.... errr turkey killers that is).

First time turkey hunting ever. I did here a gobble @ 7 and heard him fly down, sounded like maybe 100-150 yards away so I set and tried calling but I guess he went the other way. then on the way out around 10 on the other side of the river one gobbled twice so I drive over there and no luck. Was it likely the same bird? I'm still new I wasn't sure how they were about flying over water. I've only seen them fly when spooked or roosting.

Turkey will go wherever​ he wants. Could be same bird could not. Keep up after them. Remember call sparringly and be patient.

Powpow, its exactly like buckbrush said. Turkey gonna go where he wants to go. That's one thing I learned about my turkeys over time. Just pay attention to where they seem to go when they don't cooperate. You'll start seeing a pattern and it'll help in picking setup locations.

Thanks guys, back at it today, at least till the rain gets here

I'm here and hoping they talk this morning.

Hope everyone stays dry. I will be at work for the next 5 days then back at it.

I should've paid more attention to weather. Thought rain was coming in later today. It run me in a pop up blind a club member put up on a clover patch. If i knew i was going to be hunting out of a blind i wouldve went to a different spot

Be ready when that sun pops out might be a game changer.

Man 4 more days till I can get back after them sure makes for some long working days.

I didn't hear the first gobble today. Almost went up to DeKalb county this morning, couldn't have done any worse. So I have a question that may be stupid but oh well. If I am close to a roosted Tom (within hearing distance) will they always gobble before or right after flying down? And how often do the roost in the same area? Sorry if the questions are a little elementary but I'm just don't know haha

Most birds don't gobble. For everyone that's gobbling out there alot more are staying silent. This can be from competition where they don't want to get their butt kicked from a dominant bird or more likely a band of disgruntle Jake's. Many many more reasons but to answer your question no a Gobbler will not always gobble on roost or on the ground.

Where a Gobbler roosts depends really on the bird and how much pressure is put on him or where his hens are roosting. Some birds are very predictable where they roost others roost just where they are at the point it's getting dark. Terrain also has alot to do with it.

Dang yall, I'm about worthless this year. Other than my wife shooting that youngun Thursday afternoon, I can't get within 65 yds of a gobbler. Had one skirt me at 65 this afternoon and then came back by at same distance 30min later.... my mistake I put a friggin decoy out. I don't know why I use em. I try it once a yr and I always get one either hung or flared by em then I put back on the shelf. I was using one of those dakota jakes and this was obviously a 2yr old that had been whooped and didn't want to risk it with a partially strutting bird. I had a close call yesterday also but he had way to many hens. Oh well, maybe I can get after em later in the week but first time I've ever been able to get out and hunt the first 5 days of season so I'm blaming it on the weather...

NE, I use one of those jake decoys and haven't had one scared off b/c of it. I have figured out that they will circle and come up from behind it instead of face to face like they do a strutter. It cost me a turkey to figure that out. Sucker tried climbing in my lap while circling to come in behind that jake!

I plan to be back after them in the morning.

reeve - I can see that happening too but I was in some open woods off a road. I watched him work his way uphill on the road (it was almost too good to be true) and the second he stepped up on my bench and got line of sight and noticed the jake he literally turned and ran. I have a pack of 8 jakes running around (was 9 before my wife killed0 and they are probably working over some of the single gobblers so I think that's the main problem... the current environment opposed to the decoy itself. ha. I'm hoping to get back out Wednesday.

I hardly ever use decoys but when I do it's in fields. I've only tried them twice in woods and both times the birds spooked. One I had pitching in off his roost flew 100yds down a creek to me but as soon as he rounded a tree he saw my decoys and flared like a duck and landed 70 yds across the creek on the opposite ridge. All I could do was watch him walk over the hill.

buckbrush - That's now my experience on 2 of 3 times using decoys in woods. The other experience was a gobbler hung up one bench down and strutted over an hr back and forth in front of my lone hen decoy expecting her to go to him. That was a classic dead bird in my normal situations if he had popped that head up looking for her and met business end of an 835. After 20-something yrs, still making rookie mistakes.... that's should be my signature.

Just getting off of work. Two days and I will be after them again.

Killed a solid 3 year old today. Got on him around 7 30 this morning didn't pull the trigger till 12:30

Killed a solid 3 year old today. Got on him around 7 30 this morning didn't pull the trigger till 12:30

congrats on the kill! sounds like it was well deserved

I dropped the ball this morning. I missed one at 6:47 b/t 40-45 steps. If I didn't have the shot hull then I'd say dreamed that missed one. Never expected he would show up that early. Evidently I figured out the hard way that briars will mess your TSS pattern up. I shot through some of them and its the only way I can come up with him not flopping.

Congrats mat. Reeve it happens to all of us just got to get back out there and make the next one pay.

Be back at it for a couple of hours tomorrow. We'll see!

Dr. B

Congrats Matthew!

Im headed out in tomorrow for most of day hunt. Maybe my luck will change.

Good luck.

Got a stud this afternoon fellas... will post up in kill thread later.

Congrats. I finally get to go back after them in the morning for 3 days.

Congrats! I'm ready to get back in the woods, been a long week!

Congrats NE! I'm heading out this morning hoping I can some redemption from Tuesday morning.

They are quiet today spooked the only bird that was gobbling thought he was a little further than he was now just trying to find one to play.

Headed up to North Alabama in the morning, maybe have some better luck than last weekend. How's the weather looking up there?

Had a cpl strutters at 55yds today but not a clear shot... maybe Sat.

What's best place to host pics these days. I have a photobucket account since 2001 but their site is terrible now and I can rarely get anything to load. Inneed to post up yesterdays kill.

Have you tried the app? It works a lot better than the web site

I haven't but good idea!

Good call powpow... app much better than website. Got my kill posted.

He dead.

Congrats buckbrush!!! I didn't hear a single peep out of a turkey this morning!

Thank you. It wasn't the best conditions wind blowing 15 to 20mph. I set up in a bottom in hopes of hearing something. Well 7:45 I haven't heard anything no flydowns no gobbling nothing. 8 o'clock I decide to do some aggressive cutting and he hammered about 300yds away I immediately thought about going after him to close the distance but held off to see what he was going to do. After about 10 mins I cut again and he triple gobbles and has closed the distance to about 200yds. I wait a little bit and do a few yelps he gobbles then I cut and he double gobbles so I go quiet. It isn't to long I start to hear drumming oh yeah. A few soft yelps and I see him step out 40 yds in full strut I let him close the distance to about 15yds Booooom. God is good to let me have days like today.

Congrats! I got another heavy 3yr old this morning.

Awesome NE. Puttin a hurting on them.

Going with a buddy tomorrow but playing caller unless we get rare chance at a double. Good luck to everyone tomorrow!

Good luck all I'm back at work for the next 4 night shifts will be back after them Thursday morning.

Man we had one roughly 40yds from my friend's gun barrel but dang thing wouldn't pop his head over the rock to see the hen he was worked up over... dang mountain turkeys. Then had another one come at us from up top but skirted on other side of hollar at 100yds gobbling and strutting his way down the mountain. One of those "about as close as u can get" mornings without pulling the trigger... hoping I can get out late this week.

About every time I close I eyes, I see a bird going into strutt... I got back the full-on case of turkey fever that will take until 2nd week of May to go dormant again.

Got #2 this morning. Just a 2 yr old but boy did he put on a show

I didn't hear a peep this morning. stupid turkeys got the lockjaw for some reason!

congrats on the bird matthewgentry

Congrats Mathew. Most of my birds are henned up so not much gobbling but things will start to open up soon.

Congrats Matt! I would kill 5 two yr olds a yr if they walked in range. It's nice to kill older birds at time but I don't have the kind of vision that can judge a pair of spurs before I shoot, if it ain't a jake, it'll eat.

I won't ever pass on a two year old. Old birds are just a bonus.

Up early, finally off my night shift rotation leaving for the club in a few hours glad to get back after them.

Got him... pics later

congrats NE!!!

mine are playing hardheaded. we are playing switch-a-roo on roost spots and setups. one of these days they gonna mess up and be roosted where I need them to be!

I had to come in to work today but I'll be back at them with a vengeance in the morning!

Congrats on the kills I was surrounded by turkeys but they had me at a disadvantage all day. Will try and get after them tomorrow.

Good luck to yall tomorrow. If I kill it will only b if two come in on us.

With that said, what is the contest process for future birds since i already have 3? Guess its covered in rules... just hit me as I was typing...

I think best 3 birds

Missed one today! Still kicking myself im pretty sure I shot over his head. Still an awesome experience to have one in the sights for the first time. And to call and get a response and all, not gonna lie I was breathing heavier than seeing a buck in the cross hairs. (Not a monster buck of course lol) can't wait to get back at it tomorrow. I went with my 78 year old aunt Barb today who has been turkey hunting for years and has been all over the country. Amazing lady, probably healthier than me and over twice my age. She has an awesome place in Collinsville I am blessed to be able to hunt deer and turkey.

Yes it's best 3 birds. If you kill a better one just post it and Mark replace with lowest bird. Congrats PowPow your ahead of the game just starting out. Just a matter of time before you get one.

Had birds gobbling good but all off property. One was in a bottom just off property line next to a gasline. While aiting for him to fly down, i hear some commotion from his direction and then see a turkey fly across the gasline. 10 min later i see the property neighbor walk out on gasline. I'm hoping neighbor didnt spook the gobbler to bad and he'll will swing around and pay a visit.

Bird gobble at 5:43 this morning.

Well had two come in behind me at 5yds couldn't do nothing with the situation I was in. Hate it when they do that.