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Age 14- April 29, 2006 4th Turkey - 20 Ga 3" Mag #6 5:45 AM - Weight 12 lbs. Cert. Scale 4" Beard - 1/4" Spurs |
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Today was youth day and we went to a spot Jay had been scouting very
hard! We were in the woods and set up by 4 A.M. with legal shooting time
4:58, we were set up with time to spare. We heard no gobbling on the roost
this morning. The birds were very quiet, probably due to the cool temperatures
this morning. I (Steve) decided to start calling at about 5:25, and
one bird finally sounded off, way in the distance. ( Jay had been seeing
& hearing birds here all week and having done his homework we knew
they were in this area.) At 5:40 AM, I called again with a little
more aggressive yelping and three jakes, blew up very close to our location.
They had been approaching us all this time, but in stealth mode! When they
came into our view, we could see them as they saw the decoys, (They had
lust in their eyes! ) They came in with a non-stop steady pace dead set
for the decoys. Cheyenne made a very sweet, 22 yard shot, to take
this bird. Jay coached Cheyenne through the final moments and
Steve talked the reluctant trio into range! Bird number four, for Cheyenne
and this team is now history!
This is truly an annual event, that I am so glad
to have been a part of for "four" years running! One of my life's greatest
hunting adventures.
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Another Picture Perfect Father and Daughter Adventure! |
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14 lbs Cert. Scale spurs 3/8 April 29th, 2006 6 inch beard shot at 5:50 AM |
Shot his 1st. turkey on April 29,2006 this 15 lb. Jake with a 4 & 1/2 inch beard was shot with a 12 gauge. He was taken by his Uncle John & Aunt Wanda Chadbourne along with their good friend Randall Burgess all of Leeds, Maine. Congratulations Tyler.. Nice going!! |
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His first Turkey on Youth Day 04/29/06 at 5:30 am 15.5 lbs. Turkey, 5" beard and 1\4" spurs Guide Ray Stevens of Maine Anglers Guide Service Pemaquid Maine. Kids and Turkey Hunting! What a great combination! Congratulations Jared! |
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21.32 lbs 10 inch beard 1 1/16 spurs ! First bird in Maine youth day. Congratulations Julian! Sweet Bird!!! |
It was all captured on video ! This is youth day in Maine Julian Zuke and his dad Bob Zuke along with Nathan D. Fenderson took to the field to see if Julian could get a chance at a long beard. We had three huge Toms at first light come right to our set up. It didn't take Julian long to get his sights on one of the monster Toms . BANG and Julian's hunt was over and dad was strutting around like a tom in the field ! Julian's bird came in at 21.32 lbs 10 inch beard a 1 1/16 spurs awesome first bird !! |
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Guided by Chris Cobbett I don't remember the stats, just a big ole bird. Called in 9 toms together, his dad helped get him all lined up... bang, flop, off to the taxidermist. |
with first big game animal - an 18 lb gobbler. Came in hard on the call and the hunt was over by 5:25. Will shows off his trophy with Ian Henderson |
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14 lbs. 6:30 AM 12 Gauge Youth Day When I shot it I blew it over. Then I had to shoot it again and there were turkeys in front and in back of me and my Dad. When I shot my first time, they just stood there. Then I shot agian and they flew away! |
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Mossberg 835 Ulti-Mag 3 1/2" 6:25 A.M. 14 1/8 lbs. Cert. Scale 3 1/4" beard jake |
This bird was shot in Lebanon ME, May 1st at 6:00am 20 pounds, 1 inch spur, 9 inch beard |
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May 1st, 2006 17 lbs - Cert. Scale 8" beard 3/4 spurs |
May 1st, 2006 - 9:10 A.M. 18 lb 14 oz - Cert. Scale 8 inch beard 3/4 and 1" spurs "22 lbs at the tagging station" |
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May 1st, 2006 7:11 AM 23 Lbs.(Chases Store Weight) - 9 5/8 Beard -1" Spurs Not even one gobble off the roost this morning, I called in several hens and about 6:00 A.M. I heard the first Gobble. I called in the same (2) Toms, two times! The first time, the larger Tom stayed back to far to take the shot without hitting them both, they left and went away with a "live" hen. I thought all was lost. I finally called and re-gained their attention away from the live hen about a half an hour later and had them both coming back again, I even pulled them across a brook! Finally the larger of the two birds presented himself for a clean head shot, just far enough away from the second strutting Tom. I made it to work on time with 20 minutes to spare! Nice going Dave! Very Nice Bird! Glad to see you back on the site this year! Also..glad you made it to work without calling in a personal day! Or would this have been a "SICK DAY"! |
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Nathan Fenderson one of the owners of the Northwoods Adventures TV Series, that is nationally televised, on the Sportsman Channel. Nathan is also part owner of Outdoor Adventure Company Guide Service. He is a registered Master Maine Guide. |
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22 lbs 9.75 inch beard 1 inch spur and 7/8 spur Harvested with bow using the new Z point sight made by Zeiss Optics. I called 7 Toms to my decoys they surrounded them . At 14 yds I aimed just above the beard and with the release of the bow the hunt was over and boy was I happy ! The bird only went 30 yds and piled up the other birds didn't even leave I waited 25 minutes before they worked their way off from my set up . The video is up and close action ! Congratulations Nathan! Very Well Done! Fall is coming and then I too will be ready to to harvest a turkey for Thanksgiving with a string and a stick! |
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Aaron hunting with 4 year old Ian took this 16 lb 6 oz bird with an 11 inch beard at 5:45 on the opening day of A season in Hope, Maine. |
May 3rd, 2006 Tom 19lb with a 10 inch beard. |
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Shot this 21 lb.Tom with help from his wife, Wanda, who was doing the calling! May 5, 2006 (Season A) .Beard was 8 & 1/8 th. inches long with 3/4 inch spurs. Happy Turkey Hunter he is!  John & Wanda Chadbourne
Adventure North Guide Service 27 Countryview Drive Leeds,Maine 04263 |
May 5,2006 10lbs Jake 2" 1/4 Beard - 1/4" Spurs 12 GA 3"1/2 Don's First Turkey Congratulations Don! I hope this hooked you!
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May 6th, 10:10 AM, With his First Turkey 12 1/4 lbs - 3 1/2" Beard - 1/8" Spurs, Shot with Matt's new Mossberg 835, 3" mag |
May 6th, 5:45 AM With his First Turkey 20 lbs - 10" Beard - 1" Spurs, Shot with Matt's Remington 1100 What a team! Great job you guys! |
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16 lbs shot May 6th, 2006 Dover Foxcroft Congratulations Dustin!
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19 lb, 1 1/4 spur, 1 spur, 11 inch beard Went out with my buddy Chris Calais on this morning.We
roosted the bird that kicked my but several times last week.This bird never
gobbles once he hits the ground and only gobbles once or twice in the tree.
I have set up on him three times and never even got close. The last three
days he has been strutting around 5:30 in the north corner of a corn field.
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May 6th, 2006. Here are a couple birds we took the first Saturday of A season.We had a great day. Roosted 4 toms friday night. They hit pay dirt at 5:20 and crossed 200 yards of corn field on the way to the strange sounds across the way. They strutted all the way in to 30 yards and became movie stars at 5:50 am. Deven made a great shot. The bird had a 11 inch rope. We sat around for a couple hours having breakfast and trying to find
another hunter. My friend Jerry was up from WI. working on his video skills
and had not planned to hunt. When we found out he was born in 1974, we
rushed down and he bought his tag at 10:37. We drove to several spots with
no success. At 11:20 we sparked up a gobbler in an old clear cut. By 11:50
we were carrying out his first Maine tom. It like never happens that
smooth, but on this day we got
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May 8th, 2006 6:30 A.M. 21 lb. 3/4 & 7/8" spurs 10 inch beard Dan on left - Russell Beckwith on right First day in the woods 2006 for Russ! Russ has "A" season and came home from College Yesterday! |
This bird was a tough bird to call in, he hung up several times and Dan had more confidence in my 3 1/2" Ulti-Mag than I would have, he took this bird at over 78 yards, A shot I might not have even attempted with a shotgun. Those 3 1/2" #5 Heavy Shot 12 ga. Remington loads really hold their pattern. This bird was simply no match for the range of this gun! Now I know why I have a gun of this caliber for turkey hunting, it certainly won't let you down when you need that type of range! |
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May 10th, 2006 22 lb. 10 1/8" Beard 1" and 1 1/8" Spurs 3 1/2" Mag. 12 Ga. Browning with "sweet" fiber optic triangular turkey sights! |
May 11,2006, Season B 17 1/2 lb - 11" beard,1" spurs
John & Wanda Chadbourne Adventure North Guide Service 27 Countryview Drive Leeds,Maine 04263 |
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Harvested in Maine May 11, 2006 2l lbs Beard 9.75" 1 3/8" Spurs Photos & Stats |
530 AM - 3 BEARDS Made the State Record Scored 81.75 1- beard was 10 5/8th 1- was 4 3/8th 1- was 6 1/8th Spurs one 15-16 " & one 7-8" Weight 21 lbs |
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Bearded Hen Harvested during the huge rained storms that lasted a week . This bird was a freak . It was a bearded hen with a 9.5 inch beard 1/8 inch spurs ! almost a semi strut to the decoy all on video. 15 lbs |
20.5 lbs, 9.5 inch beard and sported 1 inch spurs Awesome video of this bird breading a hen then running to our setup in full strut . 35 yd shot game over ! |
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23lbs double bearded. 10 1/4'' and 7 1/2'' scoring a 75 May 13th, 2006 Dover Foxcroft |
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May 13th, 2006 13 lbs 5 oz 5 1/4 beard 1/4 spurs WET Bird! Wet week! Congratulations!! |
May 17, 2006 - 11:40 A.M. Someone called me and told me where a turkey was in a field, so I went there! This is what I did. I got there at 11:15 when I got there, a tom and 3 hens were out there. I tried to call them up to me but they would not come. So I crawled along the woodline closer to them. I was about 80 yards and called and the hens came up to about 10 feet from me. The tom did not. After the hens went back down towards the tom, I crawled some more and got about 40 yards from the tom and waited for him to stay still and shot him with 20 minutes to spare. But I got cheated. He only had one spur! He weighed 18 lbs. 5 oz. - 7 7/8 beard and the one spur on the right foot was 1 1/8 Well Dennis At least he was a DRY Bird! |
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May 19, 2006 15 lbs. 5 1/2" Beard, 1/4" Spurs 3 1/2" Mossberg Ulti-Mag 935 |
This bird came off the roost (bumped by two hunters) at 4:45 AM! After over an hour of calling the two hunters tried to stalk these birds and bumped into us, when they saw us set up they yielded to us by stopping and not moving in the woods behind us for over 40 minutes, while I continued to work these birds with leaf scratching. (True Sportsman!!! Thank you guys!!) With over two hours of soft purr's and scratching leaves, I finally got three jakes and two hens in shooting range for Jay, a long slow process! Jay made a clean shot on this bird at about 35 yards. Congratulations Jay! |
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May 19, 2006 16 pounds 9 oz. , 10 3/4 inch beard, 1 1/4 and 1 3/16 inch spurs. 35 yard shot Congratulations Tyler!!! |
May 20th, 2006 18 lbs. 9 inch beard |
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19 lbs 6 oz 9 1/2 beard both spurs 1 1/16 |
May 22,2006 18 3/4 lbs ,Beard 10", Both Spurs 1 1/4" John's first time hunting turkeys ever.Shot it with an old 12Ga 3" Double Barrel. Congratulations from his brother-in-law. |
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May 23, 2006 8:45 A.M. Jake 13 1/2 lbs. 9/16" + 3/8" spurs 5 " beard |
I think they were having there own private little conversation! I am not really sure, but...one of them was "talking turkey"??? Maybe it was CPR??? Maybe he has been away at college too long! The wife and I have always been a little concerned about ... "Our Boy Hubert"! |
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May 23, 2006 - 6:29 AM 20 lbs., 3/4", 7/8" spurs - 10 1/4" beard 12 guage at 30 yards. "It was a tough hunt, across water, competing with a live hen and had to wave off an intruding hunter" |
Tag team! Nice work guys! I am still waiting on Bone-zies picture!??! Oh yeah Dave.. you still look old - especially next Tommy! |
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May 27, 2006 16 1/2 lbs 3/4 spurs 10 beard |
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May 25th, 2006 23 lbs 11 inch beard 1 inch spur and 1 1/16 inch spur Hard bird awesome hunt! This bird has been hunted hard by allot of other hunters in the past few weeks of Turkey season. My son and I roosted this bird last night and it was game on for a morning hunt who knew maybe he would like something I said in Turkey . Three calls and the hens came straight to the decoys and big boy followed he didn't quite make it to the decoys ! Awesome video! |
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After the above Hunt Nathan Fenderson Headed to NH to fill his own tag over there! Check Out NHTurkey.com for this photo and to see photos of Nathan's six (6) year old son and the huge Tom he harvested with a Smoke Pole! Yes.. I said that right... SIX YEARS OLD!! NHTurkey.com |
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May 25, 2006 19.5 pounds, 10 5/8 inch beard, and 7/8 spurs. About a 40 yard shot. My dad and I have been hunting this bird for 4 weeks now and this morning everything just went right. Tyler... Hey Tyler.. You and your Dad have had some awesome hunts this year! Congratulations! |
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Got the season kicked off doing a little turkey hunting in SC with my son Dylan. He was at my side when I took these two swing lows. What a fun time with the little guys. Took these birds in the afternoon, a first for me, coming from Maine. Felt almost like waiting for deer. When they hit the field I was set up on, a couple light calls and here they come. Lots of fun. Both birds were about 19lb with 10 inch beards.
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This is my Maine tom. It took three days to get in this ole guys way, but it was worth it. I always say, I can lose every day, he can only lose once. 22.5 lb, 2-1 inch spurs, 10.5 inch beard. Well even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then. I finally got my Maine turkey this morning. It was the same bird that I worked yesterday.However Yesterday he kicked my butt and circled around me and then off the meet up with his honey. We put three groups of birds to bed last night, but this morning I could not help but go back after the big boy. He was gobbling for 20 minutes on the tree but then shut up when he hit pay dirt. I tried calling but got no answer. 15 minutes later I heard a hen off in the woods and started getting aggressive with her. 5 minutes later she came out to kick some hen butt and dragged ole Tommy with her. We got the whole thing on tape. The bird went 22.5 LB, 1 inch and 1.25 inch spurs with an 10.5 inch beard. I am looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow. |
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21lb, 8 inch beard, 1 inch, 1.25 inch sprurs Well, as long as I have turkey hunted I have always wanted to take my dad.Our family does not have a long history of hunters. And as a kid I was way more fired up about it that dad. But my Dad and grandfather always made time to get me out. As an adult I have tried to repay the favor. I have taken dad deer and bear hunting several times in the past few years. However he has never got a turkey permit (forgot to apply last year). At any rate today was the first day we ever got to go. My friend Tony and I roosted this bird and thought it would be an easy bird to get as he would fly down from where he flew up. We went in at night and set up a pop up blind and thought it would be a fly down flop thing at 5:20. Wrong again!!!! The bird flew the other way and stayed off at 150 yards till 6:00. The bird moved to our right and was headed away. I started calling really aggressive and pulled him away from the hen. Problem was he came right to us. From where he was it was our side. I had the camera set up the other way and dad set up to shoot the same direction as the camera. The bird was 10 feet in front of the blind on the wrong side. I said to hell with the camera and told dad to stand up, I would move his seat to shoot out the other way. As he stood up the bird began to move around to the other side. I called one more time to keep him distracted and sat dad back down. He got the gun up as the bird came into view and smoked him at a whopping 10 feet. Dad was super pumped. The best part was that the camera was running the whole time and got the bird coming around and was full frame when he shot. I was not even looking. I forgot it was on. WOW! Sweet Story and to be with your Dad!
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Jake 15 lb, 5 inch beard After roosting a few birds, I called my friend Arron to see if he would
be interested in trying for them. He was, we did and the rest is a photo.
5:30 two birds came into the field about 200 yard away and fluffed up.
I did a couple light calls with the slate and they came a running. They
got by the window I had open for Arron. So I had to get really loud and
get them gobbling hard enough not to be distracted by me opening the other
window in the blind. Boom flop. I really love this stuff, what a way to
stay in the woods between deer seasons.
Great Hunts Chris! Congratulations!
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May 30th, 2006 22 lbs. 9.5" Beard, 7/8" Spurs Congratulations! Rick!!!! |
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May 30th, 2006 With his ME turkey harvested today . Dave is no stranger to the Turkey woods and is a master at the mouth call (silver tongue) he has devoted allot of his time to teaching his skills with novice Turkey hunters become more confident in the turkey woods ! Daves bird came in at 21 lbs 11 inch beard and only had one -1 inch spur! Great job Dave ! He has also scored on two other monster Toms in Vermont and New Hampshire ! Photo Submitted by Nathan Fenderson |
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Jim Peck knew the bird was in this area and we set up on a small point.
When the bird sounded off near dawn he was a short distance away. Once
the hunt got underway, Jim made a soft purr and slight yelp and the bird
was tuned in and wanted the Mrs. he heard!
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June 1st, 2006 19 lbs with a 9 - 1/4 inch beard and 1 inch spurs Rem. SP10, 10 ga mag with #5 hevi shot at 35 yards Ralph.. Very nice meeting you! So glad your day worked out as planned!
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