1.) Ohbuckhunter - 04/19/2014

1.
CE
Nebigal
Hunter-------------48

2
Ventilator
Ohbuckhunter---------50.5
Blue cat----------------33

3.
Deerminator
At-mink
Swampy------------38.25

4.
Wild bob
Tox

2.) Swamp Fox - 04/23/2014

Sorry I missed this thread til now. I'll post a pic soon as I can.

Question, though:

If my math is correct, I think my bird is either 38.5 points or 37 points, rather than 36, depending on whether you rounded me down for one spur being 1/6 shy of my original estimate and report.

That is, beard at 11 inches = 22 points

Spurs at 7/8 + 6/8 (original report) = 16.25 points

Gun kill equals 38.25 points (no 10-point bonus for archery).

+++


Or, rounding down one of the spur measurements because it was 1/16 short of 6/8, say, upon a second measurement:

Beard 22 points

Spurs at 7/8 + 5/8 = 15 points

Total 37 for gun kill.

3.) Swamp Fox - 04/23/2014

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;18848]I'll post some pics later tonight if I don't pass out...Been up since 4:30 (AM LOL), hunted all day (run-and-gun, shotgun) killed a nice gobbler at 4:10 PM. Worked him for three hours, the bastard.

I'm gonna double-check the measurements right now but don't think I'll come up with anything different from what I got in the field. I'm by myself which makes pics and measuring difficult, but I'm gonna say an honest 11 inches on the beard (medium paintbrush, LOL) and spurs at 6/8 and 7/8. I do have a scale here so I'll hang him up for S&Gs... He's not a beast, but he made me cry a little toting him out. :wink

Later, gators...[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;18849]Well, the pics aren't gonna win any prizes since I only have two hands, a "sort of a" tripod and a camera that won't do what I need it to to focus on itty bitty details...Plus there's the sad little peabrain God gave me...

I'm sticking with 11 inches on the beard, and one of the spurs might be 1/16 shy of what I said above. You can mark me down or round it up... It makes no nevermind to me. Yay, team! LOL

The scale said 21 pounds on the nose.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;18860]Thanks.

Called him. Sneaking around some fields, I spotted a hen, and that's when the fight broke out...:wink

I'll post the story later.

++++

Alright, I'm gonna try the upload thing again.

Here you can plainly see that the bird is 21 pounds:

[URL=http://s33.photobucket.com/user/ChrisM257/media/CIMG0251-1.jpg.html][/URL]

I got so tired of not being able to focus tight on the spurs, that's what you get for the scale.

Here's the beard:


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[URL=http://s33.photobucket.com/user/ChrisM257/media/CIMG0255-1.jpg.html][/URL]

Sorry about the measurement pic, but it's a PITA by yourself. I've already taken out an ad for some help for next time:




Spurs:

[URL=http://s33.photobucket.com/user/ChrisM257/media/CIMG0245.jpg.html][/URL]

[URL=http://s33.photobucket.com/user/ChrisM257/media/CIMG0244.jpg.html][/URL]

From the field:

[URL=http://s33.photobucket.com/user/ChrisM257/media/CIMG0235-2.jpg.html][/URL]

[URL=http://s33.photobucket.com/user/ChrisM257/media/CIMG0243-1.jpg.html][/URL][/QUOTE]



It's like deja vu all over again...

4.) bluecat - 04/23/2014

scruffy beard

5.) billy b - 04/23/2014

Gray beard.

6.) Swamp Fox - 04/23/2014

"As I am, so you too shall be..."


Um, wait...


:wink


:wave:

7.) bluecat - 04/23/2014

Penniless without girlfriends? Damn.















:wink

8.) Swamp Fox - 04/23/2014

Ouch!

:-)

9.) DParker - 04/23/2014

[QUOTE=bluecat;19117]Penniless without girlfriends? Damn.[/QUOTE]

Some other stuff that's cold-blooded....

10.) bluecat - 04/23/2014

:laugh:



Okay, the instant Karma Chameleon got me!

11.) Swamp Fox - 04/23/2014

:laugh:

12.) DParker - 04/23/2014

Sorry...I was busy hailing the hypno-toad.

13.) Ohbuckhunter - 04/23/2014

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;19104]Sorry I missed this thread til now. I'll post a pic soon as I can.

Question, though:

If my math is correct, I think my bird is either 38.5 points or 37 points, rather than 36, depending on whether you rounded me down for one spur being 1/6 shy of my original estimate and report.

That is, beard at 11 inches = 22 points

Spurs at 7/8 + 6/8 (original report) = 16.25 points

Gun kill equals 38.25 points (no 10-point bonus for archery).

+++


Or, rounding down one of the spur measurements because it was 1/16 short of 6/8, say, upon a second measurement:

Beard 22 points

Spurs at 7/8 + 5/8 = 15 points

Total 37 for gun kill.[/QUOTE]
That's what I gave you. You must be getting old.

14.) Swamp Fox - 04/23/2014

Wait...Wha?...

:bad:

:ban:

15.) Hunter - 04/25/2014

Ok, boys, there's a bird down here in Texas! Story and pics tomorrow :hb:

16.) Swamp Fox - 04/25/2014

Excellent!

:clap:


So he didn't spook when you put the light on him, huh?

17.) Deerminator - 04/25/2014

Does it have FORD embossed in it?

18.) Ventilator - 04/25/2014

Congrats, pay no mind to the naysayers. Showem how you do it in Texas!!

19.) bluecat - 04/25/2014

[QUOTE=Deerminator;19248]Does it have FORD embossed in it?[/QUOTE]

LOL! You mean DROF?

20.) Deerminator - 04/25/2014

Yes, what Bluecat said

21.) Hunter - 04/25/2014

[QUOTE=Deerminator;19248]Does it have FORD embossed in it?[/QUOTE]

If you have your shotgun in the truck, it counts as a gun kill.......right?

22.) Hunter - 04/25/2014

23.) Hunter - 04/25/2014

24.) Hunter - 04/25/2014

He was an old bird.......weight 20lbs, beard is ????? longest hair is 11" while most are 9.5", longest spur is 1 5/8", other spur is broken off at 1"

25.) Hunter - 04/25/2014

[QUOTE=Ventilator;19251]Congrats, pay no mind to the naysayers. Showem how you do it in Texas!![/QUOTE]

they just like to pick on the old guys! :grin:

26.) Swamp Fox - 04/25/2014

LOL...

Beard length is measured by the longest strand, so 11.

Congratulations!

27.) Deerminator - 04/25/2014

:applause:EXCELLENT

28.) Ohbuckhunter - 05/05/2014

Shot a bird last Thursday. 11.5 beard 1 3/8 spurs. Shotgun. Flew down from roost at 6:41 am and was dead by 6:46 am.
[URL=http://s495.photobucket.com/user/ohbuckhunter/media/hunting/FA758608-008D-431B-AD60-DD35C00FA143_zpsn1v41zks.jpg.html][/URL]
[URL=http://s495.photobucket.com/user/ohbuckhunter/media/hunting/74A66FC5-DE5C-4E64-86D5-322F3175F415_zps6jfjadde.jpg.html][/URL]

Than went morel hunting with the family. Here's a couple we found.
[URL=http://s495.photobucket.com/user/ohbuckhunter/media/hunting/D4097141-A54B-4F3D-9681-3DE609C472A2_zpsivgagxxi.jpg.html][/URL]

29.) bluecat - 05/05/2014

Good one! I bet those morels will taste good too.

30.) Swamp Fox - 05/05/2014

Kinda makes you wonder why you had to get out of bed so early...LOL....

Congratulations!

31.) DParker - 05/05/2014

Sitting behind that bird with that grin on your mug you look like Bullz-I with a chicken. Your mushroom killer's got a good war face goin' though.

Nice gobbler. It was kind of your wife you let you pose with her bird. That and the morels should make for a good meal.

32.) crookedeye - 05/05/2014

nice bird..them are some good lookin morels too..squirt some cheese in there ,bread them and fry them up..

33.) Deerminator - 05/05/2014

EXCELLENT OBH!!!!!:tu: NICE BIRD

34.) Ohbuckhunter - 05/06/2014

I should also note I was back asleep by 7:30 than to the taxidermist by 10. Mowed 6 yards than walked around n found 23 morels that day than found 54 yesterday. All this walking is getting me in shape for mine n CE elk hunt.

35.) Hunter - 05/06/2014

Way to go, Dave!! Nice bird:tu:

36.) bluecat - 05/13/2014

Team 2 checkin in:




Beard was 9" at longest strand. Spurs were 3/4". Sorry I cut the beard off and don't have spur measurement validation. It's a lot to deal with in the field.
I ended up cutting off beard and foot and measured after I got back from trip.

37.) billy b - 05/13/2014

Who does your nails bluecat? Nice beard.

38.) Swamp Fox - 05/13/2014

3/4 each spur or 3/4 together?

Congrats on your bird!

Next year I think we should make it a requirement that a swimsuit model must appear in all measurement pictures: "Here, babe, hold this tape measure for me a second...Is this camera on?"

39.) bluecat - 05/13/2014

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;19666]3/4 each spur or 3/4 together?

Congrats on your bird!

Next year I think we should make it a requirement that a swimsuit model must appear in all measurement pictures: "Here, babe, hold this tape measure for me a second...Is this camera on?"[/QUOTE]

3/4" each spur. They weren't large.

I agree on the swimsuit model.

40.) Deerminator - 05/13/2014

Excellent!!!

41.) DParker - 05/13/2014

[QUOTE=billy b;19664]Who does your nails bluecat? Nice beard.[/QUOTE]

Now there are two things you don't generally hear uttered in the same breath.

Congratulations. 3 point deduction for no bikinied babe for a final score of 7/10.

42.) crookedeye - 05/13/2014

[QUOTE=bluecat;19661]Team 2 checkin in:




Beard was 9" at longest strand. Spurs were 3/4". Sorry I cut the beard off and don't have spur measurement validation. It's a lot to deal with in the field.
I ended up cutting off beard and foot and measured after I got back from trip.[/QUOTE]

youre holding that beard like a cup of tea.... nice bird.

43.) Swamp Fox - 05/14/2014

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;19666]3/4 each spur or 3/4 together?

Congrats on your bird!

Next year I think we should make it a requirement that a swimsuit model must appear in all measurement pictures: "Here, babe, hold this tape measure for me a second...Is this camera on?"[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;19669]3/4" each spur. They weren't large.

I agree on the swimsuit model.[/QUOTE]


You know they like to measure stuff anyway...So we have that going for us...

44.) crookedeye - 05/18/2014

[QUOTE=crookedeye;19673]youre holding that beard like a cup of tea.... nice bird.[/QUOTE]

another question I have is........how do you grow hair on youre knuckles like that??

45.) crookedeye - 05/18/2014

kinda like Floyd..he has more hair on his knuckles than his head...



what??

46.) crookedeye - 05/18/2014

you ever see floyds eyebrows??? them things are thick...he combs them every morning...

47.) Hunter - 05/18/2014

Saw CE was posting in this thread and mistakingly thought that he might have been actually out hunting!

48.) crookedeye - 05/18/2014

you no better than that..

I was watching reruns of mountain monsters...

49.) Ohbuckhunter - 05/21/2014

So does anyone else still hunting. Ohio went out a couple days ago.

50.) Swamp Fox - 05/21/2014

Pa., NY and Nebraska are Kansas are still in, as far as I know.

Whether our fearless representatives there have hung it up for the year is a different question, but they seem a hardy lot. :wink

51.) bluecat - 05/21/2014

I'm still putting in the effort but I just see Toms following hens around and they ain't about to give up on that.

52.) Swamp Fox - 05/21/2014

Jump in front of the hens....but you knew that. :tu:

My gobbler this year was doing the same thing. I worked on him for three hours (fortunately he and the two hens wanted to stay in the area) most of it without being able to see him or what he was doing. I think he bred one of the two (glimpsed some wing action through the brush, so I'm just guessing) just before one or the other of them led him right past my ambush at 4+ in the afternoon.

I'd been out since 1.5 hours before dawn. Longest I've ever chased turkeys without any break, and I was literally fixing to give up and leave when I saw [I]red[/I] approach my shooting tunnel in the thick stuff. I must have had an extra dose of determination that day.

53.) Deerminator - 05/22/2014

...:tu:sticktoitiveness

54.) bluecat - 05/27/2014

I'm hanging up my cleats. I'm torn up.

Ticks: 736, Poison Ivy: 15 square in, Turkeys 26, bluecat: 1

55.) Swamp Fox - 06/04/2014

[QUOTE=Ohbuckhunter;18942]1.
CE
Nebigal
Hunter-------------48

2
Ventilator
Ohbuckhunter---------50.5
Blue cat----------------33

3.
Deerminator
At-mink
Swampy------------38.25

4.
Wild bob
Tox[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;19666]

Next year I think we should make it a requirement that a swimsuit model must appear in all measurement pictures: "Here, babe, hold this tape measure for me a second...Is this camera on?"[/QUOTE]


In addition to the swimsuit model, I think we should recruit someone who can run a calculator...Maybe a sexy accountant...I don't know. I'm just thinking out loud.

I think everyone should check their scores :wink...or what they're smoking...:ach:...Or both...:wink

56.) Ohbuckhunter - 06/06/2014

I've been known to make mistakes. But what scores are wrong.

57.) Deerminator - 06/06/2014

I don't have any score for one;

that's just not right:bang:

58.) Deerminator - 06/06/2014

:-).

59.) Swamp Fox - 06/06/2014

[QUOTE=Ohbuckhunter;20446]I've been known to make mistakes. But what scores are wrong.[/QUOTE]

Don't make me come up there and spank you...

60.) Ohbuckhunter - 06/06/2014

I need roughed up every once in a while. Seriously don't have allot of time to go figure it out who's wrong. Sounds like mine is from the questions

61.) Swamp Fox - 06/06/2014

Bluecat and Hunter are too, by a little bit, but yours is way off, LOL...I'll recalculate if folks don't want to do it themselves....It's just one of the services I provide...:wink

Not nitpicking or being ornery, just poking :fire: :wink...Team 2 wins in a rout even with the proper scores.

I have the numbers already prepared on a cocktail napkin, so it's not like I'll have to hire someone...



P.S. This is all assuming I can read what I think I'm reading in the reporting posts. :wink

62.) Ohbuckhunter - 06/06/2014

1 3/8 spurs on both sides 27.5
11.5 inch beard 23

That's what I came up with for mine.

Figure them out if you have time. I could be doing them way wrong.

63.) Swamp Fox - 06/06/2014

[QUOTE=Ohbuckhunter;19478]Shot a bird last Thursday. 11.5 beard 1 3/8 spurs. Shotgun. [/QUOTE]

Well, if he has TWO spurs at 1 3/8 that makes a difference, LOL... I read it as 1 3/8 total spur measurement, which would have given you 36.75.


So, with two spurs, you are correct at 50.5. :tu:

Hope I didn't cause a panic, LOL.

I get 48.25 for Hunter and 35.5 for Bluecat.

Again, depending on reading comprehension, LOL.

64.) Swamp Fox - 06/06/2014

So here's the big question:



[B]What does CrOoKedEYe win?[/B]

65.) bluecat - 06/06/2014

I've got some home videos of some ballet recitals I'd send him.

66.) bluecat - 06/06/2014

I will even edit out some of the swearing.

67.) Swamp Fox - 06/06/2014

LOL...Sounds good...

68.) crookedeye - 06/08/2014

I never did get a prize.. I was on like a 3 year win streak..i could do no wrong..

69.) Swamp Fox - 06/08/2014

Your prize is your sense of accomplishment...


How's that?

:wave:

70.) crookedeye - 06/08/2014

whatever!

71.) Hunter - 06/08/2014

Hey! You won back your used broadheads. What are you complaining about? :tap:

72.) crookedeye - 06/08/2014

I actually had a fun year turkey hunting this year even if I only got out twice..

broadheads?? wasn't that for the superbowl??lol

what? you mean you didnt get those yet??? somthing must of got fouled up in the post office..

73.) Swamp Fox - 06/08/2014

Check with Bullz-I...He knows his way around postal problems...LOL