I wish ya could to scoop....Ken killed a pig he's donating to this event and if you were there you could've showed them the right way to smoke him...

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Just have about 13 guides on my list and have heard back from about 6 or 7. I've send out a couple of emails with directions and other info and made some calls and got a couple of bad numbers. If you signed up to help out on the hunt and haven't heard anything from me or have not received the ranch release form please let me know. We can still use a few more guys as well. Thanks guys....looking forward to it and hear the birds are already talking...Can't wait!

Barney and T_J hope to meet you there. The hunt is a lot of fun and like Scoop said a great experience for the kids. Great experience IMO for the guides as well.

It is about the kids and having them a safe fun time in the outdoors. If birds are taken and I am sure there will be or at least shot opportunities presented. The ranch has lots of birds on it and never know what else you will see during the hunt. Had elk and Nilgia pay visits to the setup last year during the hunt.

Just got a report from the ranch down in Brackettville. The foreman said that he's been seeing lots of birds all over the place. There were lots last year but with the rain last spring there must have been a great hatch...can't wait to get out there to put the whipper snappers on 'em....let the feathers fly!

Great, looking forward to it!

Last year there were good numbers of mature gobblers but almost no jakes, bet with last years weather there will be lots of jakes running around with some big mature gobblers as well. Looking forward to getting the kiddo's on some again.

Had a couple more guys drop...still need a few

Come on guys, would hate to have to team up multiple youth with a guide

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Dang I wish it was not this weekend cause I would be all over it. I live in San Antonio now so it look's like it's not even that far. Unfortunately I have billiard's final's to go to vegas this weekend. If ya'll have any other's come up later on please let me know man cause like I said that's not far from the house and I would like to help the kid's get a few on the ground. I will check one more time maybe I can come down saturday late and guide some kid's sunday mornin' or somethin'.

Tomorrow is the big day...looking forward to seeing some fo you guys in Brackettville tomorrow. Pics and video of this hunt soon to follow....

See ya there TJack

Any pics yet? Wish I could have come to help.

I did not get any pics, will have defer that to Tjack or Scoop. No birds were taken this year but still was a great time in the outdoors with the kids and fellow turkey hunters.

There were a couple shots fired at birds but sometimes the beat plans do not work out. The young man I was guiding missed a jake at about 30 yards. Nearing the end of a long day Saturday 2 jakes came in rather quickly. In waking the young hunter up and getting him on the bird we got busted and he pulled a shot at the jake as it was walking away putting. Know the feeling, I have missed a bird before.

The birds were pretty henned up still and not responding very well to the calls but it can be difficult at times to pull a gobbler away from a live hen right in front of him.

Well..2 misses and no birds taken this time. There were lots of them there but as Kmon1 said they ere all henned up with only a couple coming in to calls. A couple of the kids were able to kill jack rabbits and there were a few rattlers killed and even though they didn't close the deal on a bird they were all pretty excited and had a great experience.

I'd like to thank you guys who came out to support and help out with the guiding. It was a bit hectic trying to get everyone situated with 17 kids, their guardians and trying to figure out how many guides actually showed up to see if we had enough to cover each kid/guardian team, but we finally got it situated and had a great time. Mr. Boerschig said that by the time we get back next season he should have extra lodging on the place, so we can already have assigned lodges for youth/guardians and additional ones for our guides.

Thank all of you guys for showing these kids a great time and giving them an experience to remember. It's tough putting these things on with large numbers like this and we wouldn't have been able to do it without you guys. Thanks again and hope some of you guys can help out on future hunt. I'll post pics later...