This is the place to submit your measurements, pictures and hunt story once the season starts.
To register, simply reply to my other thread called OOD 2019 BIG GOBBLER FUN CONTEST - Rules and Registration Thread
This is the place to submit your measurements, pictures and hunt story once the season starts.
To register, simply reply to my other thread called OOD 2019 BIG GOBBLER FUN CONTEST - Rules and Registration Thread
I guess i'll take the early lead. (i'll add a pic with my shotgun later but for now i don't have one)
First bird ever, 6:20am. Shotgun. Not going to lie, i kind of got lucky. I was poorly prepared this year but i took a shot and set up near a roost from years past. at about 5:45 he gobbled 50 yds to my left. gobbled almost non stop for the next 20 minutes till he flew down. he had 3 hens with him but didn't take too kindly to the jake decoy i had out with my feeding hen. His already had some noticable missing feathers from previous fights so i knew he'd come in. Shot him at 8 yds, 30 minutes into the season.
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Edit - Score 107.5 (as i can't read a tape measure properly apparently)
spur 1.375" x 40 = 55
Beard 10.5* 5 = 52.5
no bonus
total 107.5
Congratulations! An early and commanding lead in this contest. And an awesome FIRST bird - wow, way to go.
After passing on a couple persistent jakes this morning, I bagged a nice tom with my 16ga Sauer drilling. First turkey with this gun!
20lbs 9oz, 15/16" spurs, 9" beard, no abnormalities
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Great Tom Dilly, and nice use of the drilling. Nothing like a bird on the opener!
So after the first day, we have two hunters on the Leaderboard:
1. parkcity - 107.5
2. Dilly - 82.5
Opening Day Bird!
Had Toms out in the field for the morning, but a boat load of hens kept them occupied and none would come to the decoys. So I headed back to the same spot at 5pm and called this nice Tom in and put the smack down on him at 6:20pm with my 12 ga. Remington 870 with a gobbler stopper choke
My digital scale messed up on me, so i had to use an old one, so it’s a little hard to read, before my digital broke it was reading 24lbs, but ths one shows 23lbs so go with that.
1-3/8" spurs
9.5" beard
23lbs
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Another great Tom, congrats huntital! Nice dark spurs.
Updated 2019 Leaderboard:
1. parkcity - 107.5
2. huntitall - 102.5
2. Dilly - 82.5
Very solids entries. parkcity's first entry and first tom ever may go the distance this year. With tomorrow being lots of hunters first day out this year I hope to see some more great birds - good luck everyone
Past Winning Scores:
2018 - TurkeyJohn - 99.375
2017 - Lenny - 109.25
After watching a pair of toms strutting in a field after 7pm two nights in a row I was able to determine where they were roosted. My brother and I hunted them Sunday morning but they never showed. We went back Monday morning and I got real close to the roost and I had one down 5 minutes into legal shooting time. A very quick hunt and was only 15 minutes late for work.
Shot with a shotgun
11.625" beard
1" spurs
Total Score = 98.125
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You went to work but your mind was still thinking about that bird for sure LOL nice birdQuote:
Originally Posted by CD94
Great job CD94, nice looking Tom!
Updated 2019 Leaderboard:
1. parkcity - 107.5
2. huntitall - 102.5
3. CD94 - 98.125
4. Dilly - 82.5