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Post by: turkeyspark on April 23, 2013, 12:43:26 PM: I haven't seen one of these yet, so here goes. Let's see them hooks and beards if you got em!!

I have two Jakes from NE corner. Taken late in the afternoon on opening day. Cold weather and a little snow in the hills, but we we're able to be on birds all day. Finally nails these guys at about 4:00.
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Post by: yelp on April 23, 2013, 12:49:55 PM: My two longbeards.
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Post by: Deer slayer on April 23, 2013, 01:40:01 PM: Nice birds guys. I have yet to notch a tag. I have let a few walk away to get hunting partners a shot that ended up not working out. I have picked out two long beards that are on my kill list after playing a long game that they won. Now these two are in my blood.
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Post by: washingtonmuley on April 23, 2013, 01:48:36 PM: Here is mine from the opener. 9" beard and 1 3/8" spurs.
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Post by: jackelope on April 23, 2013, 01:50:53 PM: Sticky'd!!

If there's one for deer and one for elk, there might as well be one for thunderchickens.
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Post by: turkeyspark on April 23, 2013, 01:50:57 PM: These are great birds. Nice work gentlemen!
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Post by: yelp on April 23, 2013, 01:59:18 PM: Opening Day! :)
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on April 23, 2013, 02:02:52 PM: Tag number 1.
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Post by: Mfowl on April 23, 2013, 02:32:25 PM: Blues Rio. 10" beard, 1.25" spurs
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Post by: kevinp16 on April 24, 2013, 09:33:40 AM: first tom. Central WA
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Post by: turkeyspark on April 24, 2013, 10:46:58 AM: Quote from: kevinp16 on April 24, 2013, 09:33:40 AM
first tom. Central WA
Nice bird!
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Post by: jackelope on April 24, 2013, 04:13:03 PM: Congrats to all the succesful hunters...keep 'em coming!
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Post by: bobcat on April 24, 2013, 04:23:19 PM: This is a Merriam, I am told, from central Washington, my first turkey. The picture is blurry I know. Sorry, it's embarrassing putting it up here with all the other quality photos, but it's all I got:
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Post by: turkeyspark on April 24, 2013, 04:39:02 PM: Quote from: bobcat on April 24, 2013, 04:23:19 PM
This is a Merriam, I am told, from central Washington, my first turkey. The picture is blurry I know. Sorry, it's embarrassing putting it up here with all the other quality photos, but it's all I got:

Sure is. And they look nice even when they're blurry.
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Post by: ChadH on April 24, 2013, 08:06:18 PM: Quote from: bobcat on April 24, 2013, 04:23:19 PM
This is a Merriam, I am told, from central Washington, my first turkey. The picture is blurry I know. Sorry, it's embarrassing putting it up here with all the other quality photos, but it's all I got:

Great bird... and don't worry about your photo. If you drag a camera with you, turkeys make for GREAT filed photos, and you will get better over time at getting good shots with them. If you are interested, a great little camera is the Olympus TG (tough) 610 (they probably have a new version now). It is waterproof to to 16 ft, and shock proof to 5 ft (so you could drop it on rocks from your shoulder and not hurt it...) You loose a tiny bit of resolution, but it makes up for it in being able to stick it in your turkey vest and not worry about it being damaged... then you always have the shot.
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Post by: baldopepper on April 25, 2013, 07:06:56 AM: My brothers two birds from the opening week.
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Post by: turkeyspark on April 25, 2013, 07:13:40 AM: Nice birds! Love that sign too.
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Post by: yelp on April 25, 2013, 07:23:21 AM: My buddies big Rio Grande he killed yesterday. It might be top 10 in WA state records for Rio Grande.
22.10 LBS (CERTIFIED), 10.50" beard and 1" spurs (both legs) Gives it a 63.10 score.

Nice Tom!
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Post by: yelp on April 25, 2013, 07:25:45 AM: Quote from: Mfowl on April 23, 2013, 02:32:25 PM
Blues Rio. 10" beard, 1.25" spurs

Are those the 1.25" spurs in the picture mfowl?
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Post by: Mfowl on April 26, 2013, 10:18:42 AM: Yeah, more like 1 1/8 now that I removed and measured them. Still among the larger I've taken. Rio's seem to grow'em bigger than Merriams on average, beards too.
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Post by: bow4elk on April 26, 2013, 11:36:33 AM: My daughter and I met up with Sundance and a couple of his buddies again for a long weekend hunt. As usual we had solid action all weekend, peaking when I coaxed this loudmouth into 10 yards with my new Phelps glass friction call :tup: This is my best bird yet, complete with a double beard. Bonus!

Sundance pulled a rabbit out of that hat on Monday just before we left. He tagged a great bird but I'll let him share the story and pics. We went four for four last weekend so we were a happy bunch!
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Post by: turkeyspark on April 26, 2013, 11:43:35 AM: That is a beauty! Congrats. Nice pictures too.
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Post by: bow4elk on April 26, 2013, 01:24:02 PM: Quote from: turkeyspark on April 26, 2013, 11:43:35 AM
That is a beauty! Congrats. Nice pictures too.

Thanks!
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Post by: kevinlisa06 on April 26, 2013, 10:14:27 PM: 2013 tom
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Post by: Limhangerslayer on April 26, 2013, 10:32:02 PM: Mine and my buddies from the second day of the season.
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Post by: tommyjohnston on April 27, 2013, 09:23:34 AM: First turkey ever shot and first animal harvested. Sorry for messy presentation.
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Post by: turkeyspark on April 27, 2013, 09:52:03 AM: Quote from: tommyjohnston on April 27, 2013, 09:23:34 AM
First turkey ever shot and first animal harvested. Sorry for messy presentation.

Well done!! Nice bird. So do you have the turkey fever now? It's the best illness there is!

Congratulations on your first bird. Here's to many more!
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Post by: tommyjohnston on April 27, 2013, 01:54:48 PM: Definitely addictive! Being able to call a bird in and watching him strut is something else! I will hunt turkeys every yr!
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Post by: deaddog500 on April 27, 2013, 06:58:13 PM: little jake taken near Deep Creek, near Spokane
4.5" beard, nubs for spurs.
He sure acted bigger on the way in....
Deep creek is know to suffer from ground shrinkage

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimageshack.us%2Fa%2Fimg24%2F2034%2Fdscn06122.jpg&hash=8b3cb6ca3c9ee2c4be17caa68d83f854ed108208) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/24/dscn06122.jpg/)
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Post by: turkeyspark on April 27, 2013, 07:13:22 PM: Mine were Jakes too. They taste better to me anyway.
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on April 27, 2013, 07:16:09 PM: Quote from: baldopepper on April 25, 2013, 07:06:56 AM
My brothers two birds from the opening week.
:tup: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on April 27, 2013, 07:20:00 PM: Here is a couple :tup:
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on April 27, 2013, 07:22:22 PM: Here is one for the old man they were calling rusty :chuckle:
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Post by: turkeyspark on April 27, 2013, 07:25:25 PM: Dang! Those are big ol' spurs.
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Post by: Brushbuster on April 27, 2013, 08:00:42 PM: Here's some birds we got hunting w/ Bearpaw. Doug's opening morning Tom.
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Post by: Brushbuster on April 27, 2013, 08:04:21 PM: Here's my opening evening Tom. Watched him for over an hour before he came into range. I think he was the same Tom that gave me the slip in the morning when I setup too near his roost tree.
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Post by: Brushbuster on April 27, 2013, 08:06:18 PM: Doug's "Turkey Saurus" 23 1/2 lbs!!! :yike:
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Post by: Brushbuster on April 27, 2013, 08:11:14 PM: I was taking too long to get the final bird so Dale took me out to the back 40 & was back in time w/ Jake for breakfast!

Thanks for the great hunting & good times Bearpaw!!!
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Post by: packmule on May 03, 2013, 12:34:28 PM: It's been a great spring so far, a couple of us have filled our tags and couple more are getting close. Hope you enjoy the photos...
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Post by: h20hunter on May 03, 2013, 12:40:35 PM: Some nice birds hitting the ground.
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Post by: BullCrazy24 on May 03, 2013, 01:33:00 PM: the kids first hunt out of a ground blind. cant wait until they can pull the trigger.
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Post by: prkrgrp on May 05, 2013, 06:20:15 PM: here's a few down
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(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi924.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fad84%2Fprkrgrp%2FTimsdouble.jpg&hash=bce7eef17b5b94d4654054ffdca57aeeb711293e) (http://s924.photobucket.com/user/prkrgrp/media/Timsdouble.jpg.html)

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi924.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fad84%2Fprkrgrp%2FM2Dincedars.jpg&hash=107f16f499e7d6b244d39acd49baacc27f0ec441) (http://s924.photobucket.com/user/prkrgrp/media/M2Dincedars.jpg.html)

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Post by: olsy on May 05, 2013, 06:54:27 PM: My first Tom, taken yesterday.
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Post by: turkeyspark on May 05, 2013, 07:12:05 PM: Nice bird! Congratulations.
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Post by: birdstew on May 14, 2013, 07:30:42 AM: From this weekend far way North and East Washington
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Post by: seaduckhunter on May 15, 2013, 11:40:49 PM: My 9 year olds first bird May 11.
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Post by: turkeyspark on May 16, 2013, 08:18:34 AM: Congratulations!! Well done to your daughter. Great bird!!
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Post by: one more on May 24, 2013, 05:01:06 PM: Congratulations to all of you! Beautiful birds!
Diane
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Post by: Deer slayer on May 24, 2013, 05:55:06 PM: (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.tapatalk.com%2Fd%2F13%2F05%2F25%2Fjavazare.jpg&hash=c952c985a44e8eadfcac261edf9309954ca9e9c6)(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.tapatalk.com%2Fd%2F13%2F05%2F25%2Fareru3yn.jpg&hash=1ee3f6b9ff1484c4f3fd1ad72a80613468c972fd)
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Post by: turkeydancer on June 03, 2013, 02:06:29 PM: Well the wife wanted to keep the digital camera for taking pictures of the grandkids, so I bought a disposable.
:bdid:
When I got back she was going to use the remaining pictures on the disposable to take pictures of the grandkids playing on their baseball teams. She finally remembered to do that a little over a week ago as they were down to their last few games, and took it to be processed with a disc and pics. She came home Sunday and gave me the bad news ... it seems the camera was defective and no pics turned out.
:dunno:
I guess I'll have to bring the 20.5 lb Rio out of the freezer, unwrap it, and paste some feathers back on it .....
:yike: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: Raul Duke on June 12, 2013, 07:19:58 PM: First thunderchicken

5-8-2013 17.7lbs 8.5in beard

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Post by: turkeyspark on June 12, 2013, 08:54:30 PM: Congratulations! Nice bird.

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Post by: Emptyhanded on August 08, 2013, 12:57:50 PM: Haven't been on here for awhile, so didn't get my spring bird posted. Hunted 6 or 7 days total, got busted at 50 yards opening weekend and didn't see anything since. 7th time out this guy decided to talk. Slipped in and he came walking down the skid trail. Ended up hammering him at about 45. Nothing huge but we hunted hard and finally closed the deal.
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Post by: turkeydancer on August 08, 2013, 02:23:34 PM: Congrats on a nice bird .... lesson learned: patience and persistance kills many a thunderchicken !!!
:whoo:
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Post by: turkeyspark on August 08, 2013, 02:25:07 PM: Nice work and nice bird!

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Post by: Amh140 on August 22, 2013, 03:16:56 PM: First Turkey, and he's hooked for life! :tup:
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Post by: turkeyspark on August 22, 2013, 03:54:21 PM: Awesome! Congrats. That's a nice bird!

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Post by: Alayna on September 14, 2013, 03:35:50 PM: Although this bird was taken in Spring 2012, I was thrilled to see it in the Sept-Oct edition of Turkey Country Magazine!!
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on September 14, 2013, 04:36:07 PM: Quote from: Alayna on September 14, 2013, 03:35:50 PM
Although this bird was taken in Spring 2012, I was thrilled to see it in the Sept-Oct edition of Turkey Country Magazine!!
Wow ...you are a hunting machine .. :tup:
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Post by: washingtonmuley on May 20, 2014, 08:19:35 PM: My son's first turkey. He also shot a jake the next day.
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Post by: TonyRH on October 01, 2014, 08:26:11 AM: My first turkey I've got and haven't had the time to do more of it. I got this big guy N. of Spokane. weighed 24lbs with a 8.5in beard and 3in tallons. I am new to this site, I hope the pic loads...
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Post by: Yelper Guy on October 01, 2014, 08:46:04 AM: Great looking bird Tony, congratulations - welcome to the site.
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Post by: TonyRH on October 01, 2014, 07:23:25 PM: Thank you!