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Title: What equipment you using
Post by: nickhrp on March 07, 2014, 01:05:23 PM


God bless the outdoors

Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: sonofabuck on March 07, 2014, 05:47:35 PM
I've upgraded everything this year!!
Stoeger M3000 Not sure which choke I'm going to run yet.  Jellyhead did slightly better than Sumtoy with most of the shells I've tried.
David Halloran Crystal Mistress and purple heart over cedar box
Mouth calls from Woodhaven and Hooks
Slate pot from Persimmon Hill
Old Tom Dura Lite Vest
DnD Haint which I hain't figured out just yet.

Yes, NWTF convention was an expensive trip for me.   :lol:
Title: What equipment you using
Post by: nickhrp on March 07, 2014, 07:38:58 PM
I'm using a Remington 870 super mag with shur shot stock
Pse brute x with rage turkey two blades
Got a b-mobile I call mark Sanchez  and two she mobiles called Mary Kate and Ashley
I'm using two Yingling tube calls
A misfire slate and also a glass pot call and a Yingling copper and slate and occasionally a lynch world champion box and a hale fire and a pappys trumpet


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Title: What equipment you using
Post by: Hoosier2 on March 07, 2014, 09:09:53 PM
Worked up a 870 youth 20 ga this year with a sumtoy choke on it.

Also have a mossberg 835 3.5" aka panty dropper that just hammers these birds. Gonna try to stick em with my mathews this year

Picked up a David halloran twisted sister pot call oh and fellas let's help our team member gooserbat. I'm gonna run 3 of his mouth calls bacon, 3d, and heckler

Also picked up a dsd hen to go with my killer B.
Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: ericjames on March 07, 2014, 11:47:40 PM
I will be using my old faithful 835, I mostly use mouth calls made by down-n-dirty, but I have My favorite glass pot made by Country Boy game calls. Woodhaven Real Hen box for this year, I am fixing to start building box calls for myself.

I hope each one of you have the best of luck this season.
Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: turkey buster on March 08, 2014, 05:55:58 AM
935 with a SSX choke slinging Winchester Longbeard 3.5in #6's
Primos Heartbreaker box call
Primos Jackpot slate
Handmade slate
Quaker boy mouth calls
Mossy oak camo
Therma Cell
Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: Tard on March 08, 2014, 07:54:04 AM
Strother vital bow and a Browning bps nwtf ,with Recall Designs custom calls and Sportchief vest and clothing and a couple of avian x decoys.
Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: Illini Tom on March 08, 2014, 09:20:03 AM
lookin good, guys  :you_rock:
i still carry the mossberg 500 3-inch 12 guage i bought for my first season in 1991. i upgraded to a primos choke long ago and she's always patterned winchester XX no. 5s just fine
i have carried a lot of different calls through the years, but in my ol tom vest now are...
woodhaven legend slate and glass, and a cherry crystal w/ 3 strikers for each
woodhaven real hen cherry box
l n l mahogany tube
mostly woodhaven diaphragms, too. my favorites the past few seasons have been the red wasp, copperhead, scott ellis sig, yellow venom and raspy red
(and, no, i am not sponsored by woodhaven  ;D )
i rarely carry my dekes cause i am usually runnin n gunnin after the sunrise setup

Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: Gooserbat on March 08, 2014, 10:33:30 AM
Ol' Black Rem 870 with about as much $$$ in barrel work and choke as the gun cost.
Fed HW #7 and Win lead loads
Gooserbat Diaphragms
Gooserbat, Magnolia, and Lights Out Pot calls
SS, Paul's, and Rohm box calls
Bud & Betty scratch Box
Cabelas Tactical Tater II vest
Thermacell
All Predator Calls Kill Suit ( It's a hybread ghillie)
Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: TJK68 on March 09, 2014, 10:02:07 PM
This year i am using the following gear;
870 Super Mag
Burris Fast-Fire
Hevi-Shot choke tube
Hevi-Shot 3 1/2" #7's
Mossy Oak Bottomland camo by Ol' Tom
Cabela's Tactical Tater ll Vest
Various calls from various makers, mouth, pot, and longbox.

I am a traditional archery hunter, have taken a couple turkey's with my Longbow.
Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: sonofabuck on March 09, 2014, 11:09:18 PM
I bow hunt quite a bit but haven't chased any turkey with it yet.  Might give it a try this year after I get one down with the shotgun. Are you guys using the guillotine type head, fixed, or mechanical?
Title: What equipment you using
Post by: nickhrp on March 10, 2014, 12:31:09 AM
Same approach I'm taking get one with the gun first then start slinging arrows


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Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: TJK68 on March 10, 2014, 10:37:51 AM
I use fixed blade heads, Cedar shafts and a Longbow.
Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: Gooserbat on March 10, 2014, 11:10:52 AM
Quote from: TJK68 on March 10, 2014, 10:37:51 AM
I use fixed blade heads, Cedar shafts and a Longbow.

I'm a recurve, carbon shaft and Magnus Stinger guy.  Good to have a Trad Bro. in the mix.
Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: Illini Tom on March 10, 2014, 11:35:12 AM
 :icon_thumright: :icon_thumright: to TJK68 and Gooserbat
i keep saying i am gonna bowhunt turkeys in the spring but never get it done
still havent shot a tom with my bow  :(
Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: Gooserbat on March 10, 2014, 11:41:22 AM
Never said I bow hunt turkeys.  That's my deer rig my favorite broadhead for Turkey is Win 3.5" #6 ;D
Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: TJK68 on March 10, 2014, 11:47:45 AM
Hey, that is great Sam. I shoot the old Bear Greenies. They still kill game after all these years.
I am Like Sam, I have killed a couple with my archery setup, but I prefer a shotgun when Gobbler hunting.
Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: cphill on March 10, 2014, 06:01:11 PM
I will be using my 870 or nova both 20's and both with hevi13 or turkey thugs. Calls will be Cody glass and slate h.s black magic aluminum. Just ordered a mother lode tube call see how that goes. I have several other calls but them r my go to calls.Camo is well all different kinds and brands I ain't picky about that ..... I bow hunted deer for 10 years and got out of it for lack of time to practice killed several with a bow but never was good enough to turkey hunt with a bow anyway
but best of luck to yall with gun or bow
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Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: misfire on March 11, 2014, 07:50:09 PM
Benelli Supernova 12
Sumtoy choke
Hevi13 3" #6s
Fastfire sight

A slate, anodized aluminum over slate two sider, copper and a crystal friction call. A trumpet.  Some Pecker Wrecker mouth calls. And it looks like I will be toting a box call too some of the time
Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: turkey buster on March 11, 2014, 07:53:06 PM
I'm hoping to build me a 20ga to try out next year and maybe even a 10ga
Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: sonofabuck on April 02, 2014, 08:15:39 PM
Got my scope mount and red dot put on last week.  Went Monday to the range and got her dialed in.  Now if I can just get a break from kids lacrosse, soccer, school, and birthday parties I'm ready to hunt.   >:( :-X >:(  Was going to go Friday after dropping the kids off at school but my wife creamed a deer on her way home tonight so looks like I have to drop the car at the body shop instead.   :TrainWreck1:  Can you believe she left the deer?!?!?!
Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: turkey buster on April 02, 2014, 10:07:14 PM
She wasn't hurt I hope
Title: What equipment you using
Post by: nickhrp on April 03, 2014, 12:37:15 AM
Got a red dot on my. 870 best money I ever spent


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Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: sonofabuck on April 03, 2014, 02:24:31 PM
Quote from: turkey buster on April 02, 2014, 10:07:14 PM
She wasn't hurt I hope

No, thankfully her and my son were just fine. 
Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: TJK68 on April 03, 2014, 03:24:20 PM
Quote from: sonofabuck on April 03, 2014, 02:24:31 PM
Quote from: turkey buster on April 02, 2014, 10:07:14 PM
She wasn't hurt I hope

No, thankfully her and my son were just fine.

Glad they are OK! :icon_thumright:
Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: TJK68 on April 03, 2014, 03:35:14 PM
Here is a pic of my backup turkey killer I bought me a couple of weeks ago. The one on the right in pic, 870 express, 26" barrel 12ga, 3".

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Title: What equipment you using
Post by: nickhrp on April 15, 2014, 01:46:49 PM
Just curious I have a strutter decoy and a 1/4 strut jake decoy being late season in my state which do you guys use I'm hunting fields and using a gun and bow


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Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: Gooserbat on April 15, 2014, 06:21:11 PM
Quote from: nickhrp on April 15, 2014, 01:46:49 PM
Just curious I have a strutter decoy and a 1/4 strut jake decoy being late season in my state which do you guys use I'm hunting fields and using a gun and bow


(http://i1305.photobucket.com/albums/s547/nickhrp/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-03/FC60447D-09A8-4554-B962-A62F4844DE04_zpsw0celg86.jpg) (http://s1305.photobucket.com/user/nickhrp/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-03/FC60447D-09A8-4554-B962-A62F4844DE04_zpsw0celg86.jpg.html)

I'm a 1/2 strut Jake kinda guy myself.
Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: TJK68 on April 15, 2014, 10:20:06 PM
I use the Avian X Jake.
Title: What equipment you using
Post by: nickhrp on April 15, 2014, 11:22:31 PM
Just considering not even pulling out the strutter just wanting to see what y'all used to help me make up my mind


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Title: Re: What equipment you using
Post by: ericjames on April 16, 2014, 12:23:31 AM
I can't help ya on that I never hardly use them.. The ones i have they might get pulled out and used once every 2-3 years.