Team #12 The Yelping Chickens

[beer and nuts]

Hey Team,

Walleyein
Beer and Nuts
Little Beer and Nuts
Sean
Kevlar

Looking good but we need one more to fill it out!?
Please respond, I've heard from Walleyin, but Sean and Kevlar are still out searching for J-shaped turds!!!

List your huting area and season please.

Me, and little me(12 year old son, missed 3 times last year at 9 plus inchers in seperate hunts from inside 20-25 yards!!!) will be hunting in the Roscommon area for April 28th-2nd season and his hunt is the last season hunt in May.

We also are planning a hunt in Ohio April 18-21 for just the youth hunt but I saw only MI turkeys are the rule!!!

[FIJI]

be stuck with ME !! :yikes:


but...if anyone starts doing the Chicken Dance....I'm outta here :evil:

[Kevlar]

I'm here, don't have internet usage at work. :(

Will be hunting Lapeer and Genesee Counties. Got a ZZ area private land permit.

Have been scouting the turkeys aready this season. Easter day we seen 12 jakes , 1 hen and 3 big toms. I thought that looked promising. Last year I took a very nice double bearded tom. One beard was 8" and the other was 10 inches. No bad for my first turkey.

I know I won't be able to top that bird for awhile.

Here's a pic of it:
http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/turkey_crop.jpg

KEv

[beer and nuts]

Looks like were full and all signed in. Yup, The Yelping Chickens...just came to me!!

Good luck everybody and that double beard is a dandy!!!

[sean]

Im ready.....cant wait to hear the first roar of the "THUNDER CHICKEN"!:D I will be hunting the May season in Lapeer/tuscola area.

[walleyein]

Has anyone been seeing good size birds? I have my eye on two long beards, will be hunting muskegon and oceana counties.

[FIJI]

what birds ?


those last couple of avatars blinded me !!! @@ :yikes:

[Kevlar]

Been seeing alot of jakes but have seen a couple nice one's about a week ago.

[beer and nuts]

Team Yelping Chickens. make sure you read the rules and very important that you take the picture with tape measure on beard and spurs AND Mi tag attached, according to the rules. Good Luck

[walleyein]

Yeah I read that too, I have a wide tape measure i'll use, good luck team.

[beer and nuts]

Who is huntin this week??

[walleyein]

My hunt starts the 28th..

[Kevlar]

I'll be out tomorrow afternoon. Been seeing about 35 birds now I'm only seeing about 3 with some consistancy. It only takes one!!!!

We will see how it goes tomorrow. Wish me luck team! :D

Kev

[FIJI]

Save me one :chillin:

I'm stuck in Pittsburgh today and have another work trip before I can get out for the 234.

Saw LOTS of birds on the way here today, including about 5 squashed by the side of the turnpike ??????:SHOCKED: Headed to NY then ON...more scouting time !

[Kevlar]

Got us on the points board. 4" beard, 3/8" spurs. Good for 20 points. Was holding out for a bigger Tom but decided it was a fun enjoyable hunt so I shot a jake. Had 10 jackes come within 10 yds. Got to clean the bird and I will get the photo's on later tonight.

Got good photo's of everything I need for an entry. Fun Hunt today.. :D

KEv

[Kevlar]

Ok, Here's some eye candy for ya real quick.

Looking down the barrel, looking at what I call the "kill hole". Used 4 decoys today.

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/546/08_down_the_barrel_resize.jpg

2nd turkey of my short turkey hunting career :)

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/546/08_jake_1_resize.jpg

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/546/08_jake_resize.jpg

Got more later

KEv

[beer and nuts]

Congrats!!!

[walleyein]

Congrads, I can't wait till monday, was in the woods this morning just looking heard alot of gobblers.

[FIJI]

I have another work trip scheduled 5/7 through 5/15. Tried to make it shorter but just wasnt in the cards.

Come 5/16 I'll be ready for some bird action out there....so save me a nice one !

[walleyein]

At 6:40 am gobbler came in about 50 yards and would not come any closer. At 7:30 am 2 hens came in and a jake could have took the jake, but I know there are bigger ones there. Maybe tomorrow I will score.:D

[Kevlar]

Good Luck Walleyein. Wish ya the best of luck out there.

Kev

[beer and nuts]

Last day today, took a 2 year old, 8 inch and 3/4 spurs 18 pounds. Had a good week, hunting 3 specific big boys, but they were call shy, henned up and decoy shy--just depended on the day and area. Tough smart birds..learned alot. Tried to post pics but something is wrong with my upload--not enough space!?!? Todays hunt is great, tough birds to call in off a private location but all I did was use my gobble call and a couple hens in between and basically called in the hens whcih by the time I shot at 18 yards, I had a hen 5 FEET from me and another about 10, yes, that close! had to hold the gun in a very uncomfortable position for approx. 25-35 minutes. Had two full strut decoys, hen, and a jake out. Usually the big ones woudl stay together but the smaller one was what came to me following hens, the big boy was about 100 yards away with another hen or two, never saw him just heard him. Pic coming soon!

[FIJI]

Spent today assisting with a Search & Rescue Canine training day out in Holly. Dogs were so well trained they walked right past a hen's nest with eggs. No camera with me...but it was good to see signs that another brood is on the way.

If you ever need a REAL workout.....try keeping up with a bloodhound on a scent trail :yikes:


almost forgot........3 morels !!

[walleyein]

The turkey's got really shy where I was hunting. Had some nice longbeards struting and gobbling but just could not close the gap on them, they also where henned up, got juked:rant: But all in all it was a great to be out in the woods. Good luck to the rest of you, its time to pick some morals and catch some walleyes.

[beer and nuts]

Here he is. Stats--8 inch beard 3/4 inch spurs-both and 18 pounds. Up next is Lil beer and nuts(son). Very windy today and just barely heard a gobble right of the roost and than never heard another today, left early for school time!http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/medium/1-25-08_045.jpg

[beer and nuts]

Here he is. Stats--8 inch beard 3/4 inch spurs-both and 18 pounds. Up next is Lil beer and nuts(son). Very windy today and just barely heard a gobble right of the roost and than never heard another today, left early for school time!http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/medium/1-25-08_045.jpg

[Kevlar]

Sweet beer and nuts. Nice bird. Glad you connected and had a good hunt.

Kev

[FIJI]

ok.,...so I saw them while driving through Kansas today :evil: The northern part of the state is FULL of the lil Q#$^$%*

So far I havent seen much here in OK.

[beer and nuts]

Got my points taken away I guess, my spur pic that was lost somewhere had the tag pic too. Rules are rules in this FUN contest, so fun I'll pass next year:rolleyes:. Sorry Team #12!

[FIJI]

can you re submit the photo?

[beer and nuts]

The pic I took of the spur which had the tag pic on it, was somehow not taken(recorded on camera?) or was deleted by one of my kids/wife on the camera...its not like I took the pic and ran onto MS to post it. The bird was disposed off that day after I cleaned it, I always do, turks stink to high even even after a day in the trash!!

Not a big deal to me...this is the exact reason why I hesitated to join, when there are guys so anal that we make rules for the small minority that would raise the big deal if their team didn't win because they woudl question it wasn't a Michigan bird or that spurs was 13/16 and not 15/16...or guys so anal to get recognition via a nonMichigan bird to win a fun contest. Just a reminder to me to stay away from contests like this, when its fun and you have to take two pics in order to appease the internet judges that your telling the truth!?!:rolleyes: It was an 8 inch beard bird not a world record!!

[PsEbUcKmAsTeR17]

B&N,

PM sent.

-Psebuckmaster17-

[FIJI]

didnt even see a lone bird this weekend up in Gladwin. Lot sof deer and skeeters !!!! but have no idea where all the birds went

Have one last try scheduled for Fri...:bonk:

GO TEAM #12 !!

[walleyein]

Good luck to ya.

[FIJI]

Thanks to Michael Wagner who put me in the right spot....with the right calling...we had birds around us almost all day. Aggressive double-calling was the ticket to bring the birds in.

Early in the day two longbeards followed a few hens past us. I tried to thread the needle on one and only managed to scare them into the next county. :sad: None of the others humored me with another opportunity.

Most generous Mike - Thanks for a great day in the woods !

[Michael Wagner]

Pleasure was mine. Mike