THEY AINT NO LINK FOR THE SCORING CALCULATOR ON THERE LIKE IT SAYS MR. FAMOUS

I fixed it, I think your caps lock jacked it up.

I fixed it, I think your caps lock jacked it up.

I know this is probably dumb but where is the sign up??

Longbeard71

Al

Almost makes me not want to play anymore.

I vote we do it by the county.

Team 1 ain't gonna lose. That's just the way it is!

That's what everyone thought about the pine goats too. Y'all need to go over to OG with all this whining.

Or at least let us hand pick teams (so we would at least have a snowball's chance in hell) until such time that Team 1 is finally dethroned. Then disband that hand picked team that beat them, and then finally go back to doing it by random draw. The way it is done now....Team 1 ain't gonna lose. That's just the way it is!

It has and always will be a random draw you nuckle dragger

Damn Jughead, quit your whining and go kill a 7 bearded turkey you knuckle dragger! I don't care about Team 1 winning every year, I just would like for the people that sign up to actually go hunting.

Only you. Call me a whiner and then whine along with me in the very next sentence. You a trip boy.

He is just whining becuase you are whining.

I vote we do it by the county.

Quit the whining Jughead and sign up pal. We aren't unbeatable

I will sign up pal....the year after ya'll are dethroned....in 2060....if I'm still alive.

Jughead I lost my best honey hole last year so I may not even kill a bird. I'll have to see what I can scratch together to help my team out this year. It's going to be a challenge I tell ya.

I don't really know if there is a better way to do it in all honesty, but that is also precisely why it ain't as fun right now to me though. The fun of the contest has been over with for me the last two years on the day you drew the teams when it could have potentially been fun for two solid months if I thought my team had a prayer. Just being honest. Like you said....it ain't for nothing but fun anyway so it ain't REMOTELY a big deal to me. Obviously, I ain't the only one that thinks this way though.

I'm just looking forward to a contest where we don't have to spend 45 minutes to take 347 perfect pictures that'll be ridiculed and argued over. Ready to give a bunch of and

Dang!!

With all this whining, I think I might request to have my name removed from the contest.

I might get signed up with a bunch of people and have to call our team:

The Crybabies.

God Bless,
David B.

See. If they would allow handpicked teams....I could be your first round draft pick for the "Crybabies."

When this came up last year, someone mentioned you should have a minimum number of posts to be able to participate. I thought that was a decent idea to weed out some non-participants.

LOL I was going to say 600.

1000?

I'm thinking 24000 would make it much easier on me.

Jughead, you would whine even worse when we all hand picked teams and you were in the losing team again. The same thing would happen with one team dominating the contest. We would/could stack a team and win every year. Go over to old gobbler and tndeer and ask them what team alabama did to them.

Hell 23000 of those was pimping for places to hunt. lol

And the three in front of you don't participate. That would be a lonely contest.

I was on that team for two years and bumped your bird off of our tally both years you window licking retard. That crap over there on that chitty place aint got a thing to do with this awesome website.

Watch out Yekrut! He'll jump in the minivan and drive over there to kick you in the nuts! Lol!

I aint going over there!!! He'll grab one of them sets of 2 year old spurs from those birds that didnt help us a lick in the old gobbler contests that he is bragging about winning and beat me to death with them! Damn shame yall had to recruit a dadgum rookie to help pick up his slack!

Heck while we are at it, public land birds should count double.

Its just for fun guys. Dont be so serious.

Uh-oh! I see a little personal contest brewing here! Jughead vs Yekrut!.....

Chad I think the world of ya buddy but...... I've got $100 0n the backwards turkey!

I really do not see anything wrong with the contest. It's all in fun and I am having fun as are most of the other folks in it. If it's not fun for you to chase a champion team then so be it, if you like to think that your team could be the next team 1 then sign up and let's do this thing. If you think beating this team is bad wait until a team beats them and see how tough they will be. Everyone needs to remember this is all for fun, there are no prizes, there are no medals or trophys.

You don't have a great memory, I only got two birds last year, and with your suggestion our totals would had put us in the record book...

What about just one, minor change? What about, similar to the gobbler nation contest, if folks on a team kill more than 3....their lesser birds can roll over to their non participating and/or non killing teammates? That way, there is something that folks who kill some can do to help their team if some of them are struggling? As of now....if a fella is hot....he don't get to help his team whatsoever in essence....the only competing he got to do was the "competition" of who can draw the best teammates in the random draw. I scored 270 and killed 7 turkeys by myself a few years ago, arKic was out of the country, and my team still got beat by 300 just as an example of what a bad luck draw can do to your chances. If we want the "competition" to be about nothing but who has the best luck at random draws, then don't change a thing. If we want it to be about a "team" of folks acting as a team and competing against each other for fun as a, you know, TEAM....then let them be a damn team and help each other out. Team 1 knows they aint gonna lose because they hit the lottery when they drew together and that 90% of the teams are dead in the water before the contest ever starts because of dead weight. If Team 1 has any nads....they would be all for this because it will drastically increase the number of teams that at least have a snowball's chance in hell of beating them and drastically reduce the large number of teams that score about 300. Would do you say Team 1? Yall yella?

Guys I'm not taking this as serious as y'all think

Another option is top 5 birds per team regardless of who killed them scores. You can still register all birds killed but the top 5 scoring birds per team count for the teams score.

I don't like that because it starts to take luck into it. A team that kills 10 birds between 6 of them, could potentially outscore a team that kills 60. I like the 18 birds, that way, if you can kill 60 between your team members, you still have a distinct advantage, but a team that can kill 30 will still have a shot.

I feel the above statement is pushing it.

A team can "Potentially" do anything, but 10 birds outscoring 60 is far reaching in my opinion.

Let's at least be realistic.

As far as luck, it is already established in the drawing process of the teams.


God Bless,
David B.

I think you missed what I meant. If we only enter 5 birds, then it will come down to luck. Basically, it will be luck of who kills the whopper, because most every team will be able to put together 5 70 point birds. I would rather have a total number that rewards teams for killing a lot of birds, but doesn't automatically eliminate a team that has 4 good members and 2 no shows.

The "whopper bird" is going to sway the scales heavily regardless of the number killed.

On another note, as I've been thinking.

There isn't an easy answer. One can make it complicated and have "serious teams" and "beginning teams", but who in the world has the time to arrange all that?

Have any of the posters in this thread actually headed something like this up, other than Yekrut, to realise the headaches and time it takes to do this?

I see the original object as letting everyone join, regardless of experience in turkey killings, and letting it be a simple contest.

There isn't an easy way to do it, unless a lot of time, effort, and complications are to be met head on.

I don't think anyone here, is up for the challenge. I know I'm not, as it's too much of a hassle, with little to no appreciation for the job done.

There will always be someone who thinks it can be done better, or someone who is unhappy.

Just my thoughts, and not directed at anybody.

I just don't see an easy answer.


God Bless,
David B.

I cant remember what team number we were last year, but I was on the Limbhangers and we gave Team 1 a run for their money. All of our guys killed turkeys and if I recall correctly four of our five killed three or more turkeys.

Of the people that signed up, how many people didn't kill a bird at all last year?

So yekrut, which team you putting Jughead on?

Nobody on Team 1 has talked smack or bragged yet... We all believe we can be beat. The past is just the past, it's what's ahead that counts... And trust me the number 5 call is not even in the planning... It's up to your team to keep members motivated. The season can be tough, I killed opening day and never got a bird in range till the last weekend, ya just have to be persistent...

We could always run the 3 man contests on the side.

What ya say jughead? Me, you and Jonlee against any 3 of the team 1 guys? Haha