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I'm glad everyone received their prizes and is happy with them. I guess the other entries didn't want a prize cause no one sent me their addys as I asked. I'm not chasing anyone down to send them a prize. Oh well...more prizes for next year!!

Skillet's youth hunter has chosen the antler lamp. G-man please PM me your addy so I can send the SS boxcall your way.

Darn it!! I forgot to list it. Sorry. It's going to go to Skillet's youth hunter.

We had a unanimous decision by all three judges as to who the winners are. Here they are in order... 1. Skillet 2. G-man 3. rotorooter23 Congrats to the winners as well as everyone who submitted an entry for the contest!! Skillet your youth hunter can choose between the antler lamp that wooly donated or a custom boxcall by SS Calls donated by Al Shoemaker, along with a $25 gift card to Bass Pro which was donated by MACHINIST. G-man's youth will receive which ever prize you don't choose. rotorooter23's youth will receive a potcall donated by Rick Howard. I need you guys to PM me your addy's so we can get the prizes to you!! As far as the rest of the entries please PM your addy's and I will get something to you all. I would also like to thank MACHINIST for once again donating a prize for this contest. It is greatly appreciated. A big thanks to wooly, Rick Howard and Al Shoemaker for donating prizes for the contest!!

I want to congratulate the youths and their mentors who participated in the youth hunt and were successful, and in this contest. I am very happy to see the increased participation this year and hopefully this contest will continue to grow. Paula, Matt and I will be re-reading everyone's stories and viewing the photos and we will make a decision on the winners in the next few days. There will be three winners picked this year and I will announce the winners on May 4, when I get back from hunting. Good luck to everyone who will be hunting this season and be safe!!!

Guys I appreciate all of your posts but can you please only post pics of successful hunts along with pics on this thread?

Congrats to you both and don't forget to post the pics and story in the youth hunt contest!!

Darn birds are all henned up. Seen 5 tons and 3 jakes but they were way off. Of course the deer are all over us. Lol

Good luck to everyone who will be out hunting this weekend!! Don't forget to post your stories and pics on this thread for the contest. Be safe!!

Just wanted to update everyone on my great uncle Salvatore. He turned 105 years young today!! God bless him.

Just wanted to show one of the prizes that we will be offering. The lamp was made by our very own wooly and he has graciously donated it for the contest. Can't thank you enough wooly for supporting this contest and our youth hunters!!

Rick thank you for your donation. It is greatly appreciated!! I will contact you with the info you'll need to mail the call out to the winner of it, when it's time.

The youth hunt is quickly approaching and hopefully everyone that is participating is ready to go. Last year for the contest a few of you contacted me and offered donations for the contest. If anyone wants to donate something/anything as a prize for the contest it will be greatly appreciated. Good luck to everyone that will be participating and be safe!!

Once again this year I will be running the youth spring turkey hunt contest, with the help of Paula and Wooly as judges. If any of the members take a youth out and they are successful please take the time to participate in the contest. Lets grow this contest and get the youngsters involved!! This thread will serve as the official rules and entry thread for the youth hunt. This year there will be three judges... Wooly, Paula and myself. We will judge the contestants based on the following rules... 1. The youth hunter or mentor must submit a picture of the youth or of the two of them with their harvest. 2. A brief story of the hunt, preferably written by the youth, must be submitted. 3. You must post both your picture and story on this thread only!!! PLEASE DO NOT START ANOTHER THREAD FOR THE CONTEST ENTRY!! 4. The deadline for submitting your entry is 12:00am ( midnight ) on April 29. So if you harvest a bird make sure to enter it on this thread before then!! The winner will be chosen based on a combination of best picture and story submitted. The size of the bird WILL NOT be taken into account, although we encourage that you post the birds stats. As far as the judges are concerned all birds harvested are a trophy!! There will be some great prizes given away this year and we wish everyone a safe and successful hunt!!! GOOD LUCK TO ALL!!! This is not run by HuntingNY.com

Goose call will also work as a shock gobble call. Like all shock calls it doesn't work all the time but it does work. Not sure why it works but many years ago while turkey hunting I had a couple of birds in a field but they wouldn't gobble at anything I threw at them. At one point a flock of geese flew over and when they honked the birds gobbled their heads off. I carried a goose call for years and had some success getting birds to shock gobble while using it.

I would like a full mount but I just don't have the room for now. This is how I display my success!!

I will be mentoring a young lady from NJ this year thanks to a good friend. She doesn't have anyone to take her so I volunteered to do so. I'm really looking forward to it as the last time I took a youth out was in 2012. I really enjoy introducing young hunters to the sport of hunting and especially to the sport of spring turkey hunting. The look on their face when they harvest a bird is priceless. How many of you will be taking a youth out this spring season?

Well deserved win for the better team... my BRONCOS!!! Gonna be a good day at work tomorrow.

Half time show was disappointing!! Ok...actually it was awful!!

Looking good so far for my Broncos!!

4-O 2 hunters, 1 buck

Glass curio or some kind of display cabinet which allows them to be visible and accessible.

I killed a buck with a similar hole on his right main beam a few years back. It makes for added character!!

I've heard of peeping toms but peeping deer?