paint brush

[gutpiler]

snow shoeing yesterday in a light snow and I came upon 3 toms feeding through a ceder swamp......one of them had an absolute paintbrush for a beard! As if I wasn't anxios enough for the season to start, I'm even more so now!! About an hour or so later I spyed a coyote running off ahead of me........I hope those toms aren't on his menu! anyway I drew week 3 and my youngest drew week 1. funny thing is we applied fo weeks 2,4,6. how does that happen????? any one else seeing anything? by my house they disappear for the winter but always make it back in time for the season.

[WillowRidgeCalls]

What zone did you apply for?

[gutpiler]

zone 5,I talked to a dnr chat person via their web site and she couldn't explain to me why I drew the weeks I did. It doesn't really matter anyway I was just curious. also if this is a lottery how come my youngest son draws week 1 every year now for 4 years in a row???

[charlie elk]

There a lot of things about WI drawing that make no sense.  It is an extremely frustrating system.  I have talked to a lot guys who have just given up on it.  Seems the system is driving hunters away. [:o]
Good for us hard  core hunters in the short term. If you play your OTC tag purchases right you can easily end up with 6 to 7 tags for this spring. 
But long term I worry about the support for wild turkeys.

Been hearing gobblers yelping everyday 11am-noon.  This morning heard my first deep throat-ed gobble of 2010.  Got 3rd season is 4 should have applied for an earlier one and tagged up on the OTC, had no idea there would be so many left in so many units and time periods.

[WillowRidgeCalls]

Yep don't think much of the draw system, we sent in as a group and drew two different weeks [8|]