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April 2010

April 29 - Aaron Bennett

April 29 - Aaron Bennett

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: 12 Gauge Thompson Center Shotgun

With 20-30 mph winds, we knew that we were in for a tough day of hunting. Chad Kilmer and I headed to one of his best honey holes early in the morning, but the roost hunt was a bust. For the rest...

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April 28 - Sergeant Major First Class (ret) Joe Haynes

April 28 - Sergeant Major First Class (ret) Joe Haynes

Animal: Easter Turkey - 25lbs, 11" Beard, 1 1/4"Spurs
Location: Kentucky
Weapon: 12 Gauge Shotgun

With the days clicking off to the end of turkey season the birds tend to want to hang up or not respond well to decoys so it was time to bring out the equalizer, the Smoke Pole! Joe and I set out...

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April 27 - Steve "Coon Dog" Coon & Chris Comstock

April 27 - Steve "Coon Dog" Coon & Chris Comstock

Animal: 2 Turkeys
Location: Missouri
Weapon: 12 Gauge Thompson Center Shotgun

Well, the boys are back at it but this time they are packing a deadly weapon. The weapon’s name is “ Mark Drury”. Not only is it bad enough when you get Comstock and Coon Dog together, but now they...

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April 26 - Brian Lovett

April 26 - Brian Lovett

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Shotgun

We had the pleasure of having Brian Lovett, the editor of Turkey and Turkey Hunting Magazine, in camp to hunt with us during the second week of Missouri’s turkey season.

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April 24 - Corpl. Catlin Mixson

April 24 - Corpl. Catlin Mixson

Animal: Turkey
Location: Tennessee
Weapon: 12 Gauge Shotgun

I was honored when I got the call from Doug Hutchison (Drury Outdoor National Sales Manager) asking if I could go guide and film a hunter in Campbell Co., Tennessee on a Wounded Warrior Turkey hunt...

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April 24 - Jared Lurk

April 24 - Jared Lurk

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: 20 Gauge Thompson Center Shotgun

After having completed the two state double for Doctor Haskell…we still had enough time to get back to Missouri and roost. Luckily we found two gobblers and after they flew up eased in tight to set...

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April 23 - Dr. Darren Haskell

April 23 - Dr. Darren Haskell

Animal: 2 Turkeys
Location: Missouri & Iowa
Weapon: 20 Gauge Thompson Center Shotgun

It was once again time for our annual pilgrimage to northern, MO to hunt with uncle Mark during Turkey season. This year, however, we had to leave brother Justin at home – actually, we left him in...

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April 22 - Mark Drury

April 22 - Mark Drury

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: 20 Gauge Thompson Center Shotgun

Well, only a few days had passed since Terry and I had luck where Terry killed and we had been hearing several gobbling in that area….so back to the source we went!

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April 22 - Steve "Coon Dog" Coon & Chris Comstock

April 22 - Steve "Coon Dog" Coon & Chris Comstock

Animal: 2 Turkeys
Location: Missouri
Weapon: 12 Gauge Thompson Center Shotgun

After being apart for a day, Chris and Coon Dog were back together. They decided that Chris would be up to bat first and would swing the Thompson Center.

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April 21 - Tad Brown

April 21 - Tad Brown

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Thompson Center 12 Gauge Shotgun

Tuesday evening arrived, and who rolled into camp but Tad Brown. It was decided that evening that Tad would go with Chad Kilmer and Coon Dog to one of Chad’s farms.

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April 20 - Matt Drury

April 20 - Matt Drury

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: 20 Gauge Thompson Center Shotgun

Well....on opening day I had the opportunity to go out with Engie (Michael Engelmeyer - Photographer/Legend) and Chad Kilmer (Drury Team Member/Turkey Guide). We had a great hunt right off of the...

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April 20 - Terry Drury

April 20 - Terry Drury

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: 12 Gauge Thompson Center Shotgun

2nd day of Missouri's turkey season was here and after scouting out his main farm for "Plan B" as it pertained to Pete's hunt the day before, Terry knew just where all his adult gobblers where...

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April 19 - Michael "THE LEGEND" Engelmeyer

April 19 - Michael "THE LEGEND" Engelmeyer

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: 12 Gauge Thompson Center Shotgun

It was our pleasure to have a truly "legendary" photographer in camp for the Missouri Opener this year. Not only have we been extremely close friends with Michael Englemeyer (Great Outdoors...

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April 19 - Pete Shepley

April 19 - Pete Shepley

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: PSE Axe

It was a real honor to have Pete Shepley, Owner/President of PSE Archery and Blake Shelby, Marketing Director for PSE in turkey camp with us. We had set up this hunt so we could do a photoshoot...

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April 19 - Sergeant First Class (ret) Joe Haynes

April 19 - Sergeant First Class (ret) Joe Haynes

Animal: Eastern Turkey
Location: Kentucky
Weapon: PSE Omen

With my Illinois tag now filled it was time to head home to the “Blue Grass” state and get on those early season birds there. This was going to be a special first hunt as I was going to try and get...

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April 18 - Amy Reisner

April 18 - Amy Reisner

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

I don’t usually have a problem getting up to go turkey hunting but this year, I wasn’t looking forward to it as I just had a new baby 9 weeks ago and finally got him sleeping through the night in...

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April 18 - Bric Steward

April 18 - Bric Steward

Animal: Turkey - 21 1/2 lbs, 9 1/2" Beard, 1 1/4" Spurs
Location: Illinois
Weapon: 12 Gauge Shotgun

Well if you read my dad, Larry's story. then you are up to speed and are getting ready to read chapter 2. Even with all the Reconyx pics of gobblers running wild on the farm we had another farm...

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April 18 - Melissa Payne

April 18 - Melissa Payne

Animal: Turkey - 20lbs, 1 3/16" Spurs, 10" Beard
Location: Kentucky
Weapon: Thompson Center Encore

5:30 early last Sunday Morning I was up and ready to go before Louie! After the hunt we had yesterday with Ashley I just knew something would happen this morning. It was 33 degrees and I couldn’t...

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April 18 - Zach Cain

April 18 - Zach Cain

Animal: Turkey - 10" Beard, 1" Spurs
Location: Ohio
Weapon: 12 Gauge Shotgun

It was the 2nd day of turkey youth in Ohio when I shot my tom. The day before me, Jarod Hawkins, Jarod(my brother), Dad (Ben Rising) and Kenny Bevans went out. My brother shot his bird later that...

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April 17 - Ashley Payne

April 17 - Ashley Payne

Animal: Turkey - 20lbs, 1 1/16" Spurs, 9 3/4" Beard
Location: Kentucky
Weapon: Thompson Center Encore

Opening day of spring turkey season is one of the highlights of my whole year, I love it. This hunt that I was lucky enough to experience this year was one of the greatest adrenaline rushes in my...

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April 17 - Dave Kramer

April 17 - Dave Kramer

Animal: Turkey - 23lbs, 10 1/2" Beard, 3/4" Spurs
Location: Iowa
Weapon: 12 Gauge Shotgun

Bill and I have been spring turkey hunting with archery tackle for quite a few years now. With very limited free time and children showing interest in the sport we decided to put the bows down and...

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April 17 - Jarrod Cain

April 17 - Jarrod Cain

Animal: Turkey - 9 1/2" Beard, 1" Spurs
Location: Ohio
Weapon: 20 Gauge Shot Gun

There's nothing I look forward to more than opening day of deer season except youth opening turkey weekend. Fortuantely my 2 oldest boys (stepsons) look forward to it just as much. Ohio's youth...

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April 17 - JJ Kolesar

April 17 - JJ Kolesar

Animal: Tukrey - 22lbs, 9" Beard, 1" Spurs
Location: Illinois
Weapon: Shotgun

Well, I would like to say that long hours in the field, and diligent scouting is the reason we were able to harvest a longbeard on the first day of season within the first hour. However, its...

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April 17 - Larry Steward

April 17 - Larry Steward

Animal: Turkey - 20 1/2 lbs, 11" Beard, 1" Spurs
Location: Illinois
Weapon: 12 Gauge Shotgun

Well this is with out a doubt the most unprepared we have ever been for turkey season. I've been to Florida trying to kill an Osceola, Busy at my clinic and just flat out haven't put in the time I...

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April 16 - Kyle Grover

April 16 - Kyle Grover

Animal: Turkey - 23lbs, 10 1/2" Beard, 1" Spurs
Location: Wisconsin
Weapon: 10 Gauge Single Shot Gun

This was a great turkey hunt with my son, Kyle. Kyle drew a tag in Wisconsin for the first week of a six-week Spring turkey season. We would only have one day to hunt because Kyle is an intern at...

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April 15 - Bill Gadient

April 15 - Bill Gadient

Animal: Turkey
Location: Iowa
Weapon: Shotgun

Story Coming Soon!

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April 15 - Jeff Lindsey

April 15 - Jeff Lindsey

Animal: Turkey - 10" Beard, 1 1/8" Spurs
Location: Iowa
Weapon: Shotgun

The Iowa spring has finally and thankfully sprung! After one of the harshest winters I have ever seen, the warm weather got here in a hurry once Easter came and gone and for that I was thankful....

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April 15 - Tom Ware

April 15 - Tom Ware

Animal: Eastern Turkey - 23 lbs, 9" Beard, 1 1/8" Spurs
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE X-Force

Been a great season so far and its only April 15th. My 9 year old daughter Jessica harvested her first turkey this year during the Illinois Youth season on Easter morning. (Not on film) I can't...

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April 14 - Bobby Goodine

April 14 - Bobby Goodine

Animal: Turkey - 10" Beard, 1 1/4" Spurs, 23lbs
Location: Iowa
Weapon: Shotgun

Every year i look forward to chasing Iowa longbeards during the early season and this year I drew an early season tag and couldnt wait till april 12th to try and wrap it around the ankle of a...

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April 13 - Rick Malik, Terry Drury, Mark Drury

April 13 - Rick Malik, Terry Drury, Mark Drury

Animal: 3 Turkeys
Location: Iowa
Weapon: Thompson Center 12 Gauge Shotgun

Turkey season 2010 was finally here!! Three years ago, Mark Drury had invited me out to hunt those big Iowa longbeards. We had a great hunt with Mark, Tad Brown and myself taking nice birds....

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April 12 - Joe Shults

April 12 - Joe Shults

Animal: Turkey
Location: Illinois
Weapon: Thompson Center 12 Gauge Shotgun

With opening day of the Illinois turkey season finally here it was time to load the wagon and head up to the farm! On the way up Coon Dog and I spoke on the phone and put together a plan for the...

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April 12 - Jon Gibbs

April 12 - Jon Gibbs

Animal: Turkey - 10 1/4" Beard, 1 1/2" Spurs, 24lbs
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE X-Force GX

LOVE me some turkey hunting! Well David and Jeff invited me up to Iowa to go hunting with them on their farm, so I applied for a tag, and luckily I got drawn. So I took off to Iowa a day early so...

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April 12 - Sergeant Major (ret) Glen Simpson

April 12 - Sergeant Major (ret) Glen Simpson

Animal: Eastern Turkey
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE Omen

With a successful Illinois youth season in the books the week prior, it was time to head back to the place I grew up and love so dearly, “The Land of Lincoln”, west central Illinois!

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April 10 - John O'Dell Sr.

April 10 - John O'Dell Sr.

Animal: Turkey
Location: North Carolina
Weapon: Shotgun

Well this hunt started last year when I met good friend Matt Bullins from Galax VA. When we met he told me that he had some good turkey hunting ground in North Carolina and asked if I wanted to...

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April 10 - Josh Bennett

April 10 - Josh Bennett

Animal: Turkey - 10 1/2" Beard, 1" Spurs, 21lbs
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Shotgun

“Is he going to be all right?”, I asked my mother over the phone, after she called and informed me that my youngest brother, Joshua, was just involved in a very serious atv accident. “I don’t know,...

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April 10 - Taylor Drury

April 10 - Taylor Drury

Animal: Turkey
Location: Missouri
Weapon: 20 Gauge Thompson Center Shotgun

Finally, it was time for me to head up to the farm for Missouri Turkey Youth Season. I went to northern Missouri right after school on the 9th and could not wait to get up there! I was excited that...

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April 10 - Zach Playle

April 10 - Zach Playle

Animal: Turkey - 22 1/2 lbs, 10" Beard, 1 1/4" Spurs
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Shotgun

2010 was my last year to hunt the Missouri youth turkey season. The week before I was so pumped because we had everything coming together, Reconyx camera photos of gobblers, earlier encounters, and...

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April 8 - Britney Edney

April 8 - Britney Edney

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

Nebraska is one of the few states that actually has an Archery only season for spring turkeys. This season falls prior to the shotgun season and allows archery hunters to get out in the prairie...

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April 3 - Coltin Hampton

April 3 - Coltin Hampton

Animal: Turkey
Location: Arkansas
Weapon: 12 Gauge Shotgun

If you would have asked me three days ago if I was going to watch a turkey drop this season, I would have told you with all certainty, "Not a chance!" And I would have laughed at the thought of...

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April 3 - Franky "Bub" Nation

April 3 - Franky "Bub" Nation

Animal: Eastern Turkey - 23 lbs, 10" Beard, 1 1/8" Spurs
Location: Illinois
Weapon: 20 Gauge Shot Gun

With Dream Season Celebrity in the books it was finally time to focus my efforts towards those birds we all love to chase, “The Kings of the spring”, the wild turkey.

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April 3 - Jason Edney

April 3 - Jason Edney

Animal: Turkey
Location: Tennessee
Weapon: 12 Gauge Shotgun

This hunt started like so many of Britney and I’s hunts. We were headed to Nebraska and figured a way to make a quick stop and hunt for a couple of days! This trip just happened to coincide with...

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April 3 - Rod Owen

April 3 - Rod Owen

Animal: Turkey - 21 lbs, 1" Spurs, 10" Beard
Location: Kansas
Weapon: PSE Omen

After getting a call from Doug saying Colton had killed a gobbler in Arkansas youth season. I decided to go to Kansas and try to kill a gobbler with a bow and film myself. It was nice to get out in...

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April 1 - Jaclyn Shaw

April 1 - Jaclyn Shaw

Animal: Turkey - 10" Beard, 1" Spurs
Location: Georgia
Weapon: Shotgun

I haven’t been too lucky at Turkey hunting over the years, I don’t go a whole lot due to the fact you have to get up so early, it’s usually cold, no coffee, no breakfast and your in for a 3 mile...

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