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April 2009

April 30 - Chris Comstock

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Shotgun

During camp you don�t know who you�re hunting with most of the time because ever now and then Mark and Terry like to change the teams up, which gives everyone a chance to hunt with the Legend of...

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April 29 - Steve "Coon Dog" Coon

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: 12 Gauge Shotgun

April 28th was another win for the turkeys, but that evening put us right back in the ball game. Between Mark, Arron, and myself we roosted 11 different birds. So it was decision time on which one...

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April 28 - Kimberly Crabtree

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Shotgun

Mo spring turkey season rolls on and so does the bad weather, rain, wind, and lots of low pressure weather patterns, and a general downturn in the turkey populations has made the spring hunting...

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April 26 - Chris Ogle

Animal: Eastern Turkey
Location: Kentucky
Weapon: PSE X-Force

Well, with my first miss of the season with my PSE out of the way it was now Chris�s turn again. This year we�ve taken our game up a notch in trying to slam a gobbler in the head with the Rage....

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April 26 - Jared Lurk

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: 20 Gauge Shot Gun

Last day of the weekend hunt & the amateurs take the back seat & let the experienced hunter give it a shot. Back to MO & Jared was gunner with Mark armed with the camera & his calls. No chance for...

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April 25 - Dave Reisner

Animal: 2 Merriam Turkeys
Location: New Mexico
Weapon: Shotgun

Dave and I were invited on a spring turkey hunt with our good friend James Coppedge of Pack-n-horns Outfitters in New Mexico.

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April 25 - Dr. Darren Haskell

Animal: Turkey
Location: Iowa
Weapon: 20 Gauge Shot Gun

4/25: After a rainy night and early morning, we headed across the border to Iowa & got some birds to respond so off to the timber we went. We got as close as we wanted to one hot gobbler & wondered...

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April 25 - Kyle Lamore

Animal: Rio Grande Turkey, Wild Hog
Location: Texas
Weapon: Shotgun & PSE Bow

After chasing our Easterns back home for a couple days, and enduring rain and countless strutters that somehow knew 75 yards was a safe distance for them, we were ready to head to Texas. JJ and I...

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April 24 - Justin Lurk & Dr. Darren Haskell

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: 20 Gauge Shot Gun

The end of the work day on Thursday 4/23 could not come quick enough. I had a reminder set in outlook for myself to leave the office at 4:30pm for our trip to northern Missouri. My reminder went...

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April 24 - Mark McCaulley

Animal: Turkey
Location: Wisconsin
Weapon: 12 Gauge Shotgun

My good friend Mark McCaulley wanted to introduce his two girls,Molly(8),and Sadie(7)to hunting.My daughter Katherine(7),wanted to go on her second turkey hunt.Three girls and two adults in a...

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April 22 - Mark Drury

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Shotgun

Timber! That�s the only word that was running through my mind as I plopped down next to an oversized oak on the third morning of the Missouri turkey season. So often we find ourselves on a field...

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April 20 - Chris Comstock

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Shotgun

April 20th opening day of Missouri Turkey Season found Coon Dog and Comstock hunting together. Chris was up to bat and Dog was behind the camera. Well the two started off at Chris� main farm and...

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April 20 - Chris Ogle

Animal: Eastern Turkey
Location: Kentucky
Weapon: PSE X-Force

Opening day in Kentucky came and went with Chris�s wife passing on a hen�d up big gobbler at long range with her shotgun. With a slow moving low pressure system the next day was a washout and with...

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April 20 - Gregg Day

Animal: Turkey
Location: Pennsylvania
Weapon: Remington 870 12-Gauge Shotgun

Pennsylvania turkey season is finally here! We had a great first week in Ohio and was fortunate to film youth hunter Jimmy Scheidter take his first ever turkey. Now we were focused on Pennsylvania....

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April 20 - Matt Drury

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Shotgun

Opening Day is upon us finally! I have been looking more and more forward to the opening day of Missouri's turkey season as the years have gone by.

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April 19 - Jeff Propst

Animal: Turkey
Location: Iowa
Weapon: Shotgun

After an awesome hunt with my daughter Julie on April 18th, it was time for me to get after a big Iowa gobbler, my son Chris would be with me on this hunt, and run the camera for me. Sunday morning...

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April 19 - Jimmy Scheidter

Animal: Turkey
Location: Ohio
Weapon: 12 Gauge Shotgun

Well, it is finally turkey season and Gregg and I were excited to be taking young 15 year old Jimmy Scheidter from Pittsburgh, PA on his first ever turkey hunt during Ohio�s youth season.

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April 19 - Tom Ware

Animal: Turkey
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE X-Force

Pike County Illinois is not only known for big bucks; it also has an excellent turkey population as well! My best friend and filming partner Mike Klemmensen came into camp on Saturday and it...

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April 18 - Doug Hampton

Animal: Turkey
Location: Arkansas
Weapon: 12 Gauge Shotgun

"YES Sir?!!!", I yelled as I slung my cherry bomb slate-call and striker while jumping up and out of my turkey vest. I turned to my camera-man Coltin Hampton, who is my son and only 13 years old....

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April 18 - Julie Lucas

Animal: Turkey
Location: Iowa
Weapon: Shotgun

My Daughter Julie and I were fortunate to draw Iowa turkey tags this year and we had an awesome hunt This hunt is one I look forward to every year, my daughter and I started hunting together in...

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April 15 - Jared Lurk & Mark Drury

Animal: Turkey
Location: Iowa
Weapon: Shotgun

I don�t know if there�s a spring season that we look forward to anymore than 1st season Iowa. Each year it seems to coincide with the initial break up of the winter flocks. Hens are still a bit...

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April 14 - Bobby Goodine & Jeff Lindsey

Animal: 2 Turkeys
Location: Iowa
Weapon: Shotgun

Iowa�s opener started off par for the course for springtime in the midwest.....raining. Me and bobby decided we wasn�t going to fight mother nature with our camera gear until the next morning so we...

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April 14 - Tom Ware

Animal: Turkey
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE X-Force

I had a tag for Iowa and only a day and a half to hunt, but I was committed to trying to harvest a Big Tom with my PSE X-Force. We drove up to from Illinois and got into Iowa really late on the...

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April 12 - Specialist Jamie Kays

Animal: Eastern Turkey
Location: Kentucky
Weapon: 12 Gauge Shotgun

With one gobbler in the vest of a new turkey hunter the week prior, Chris and I set out for the second of three missions to get new hunters addicted to chasin those big birds of the spring.

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April 4 - Coltin Hampton

Animal: Turkey
Location: Kansas
Weapon: Thompson Center 12 Guage Shotgun

Rod Owen and I were determined to get my son Coltin a long-beard this spring during the Kansas youth season. Last season ended with some close calls and some unfired shells. We were disappointed to...

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April 4 - Jeff Lindsey

Animal: Turkey
Location: Georgia
Weapon: 12 Gauge Shotgun

With a couple turkeys already in the bag for my dad and buddies. It was my turn to get behind a weapon. Me and Lil� Jon headed out Friday morning to try a turkey we had nicknamed Mr. Clean because...

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April 4 - Specialist Brian Brennan

Animal: Eastern Turkey
Location: Kentucky
Weapon: 12 Gauge Shotgun

Here it is spring time again in �The Bluegrass State�; the trees are budding out, the wild flowers blooming, mushrooms growing, and best of all the gobblers hammering it!

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April 4 - Taylor Drury

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Remington Youth 20 Gauge

After killing a Rio in Texas, it was the Missouri Turkey Youth Season the next weekend. My dad and I headed up to the farm hoping I could get my second bird this year! After riding the...

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