RULES AND SIGNUP NY Woods & Water 2024 Adult Turkey Hunting Contest Rules, Signups and Donations

[nywaw]

Welcome to the Official NY Woods & Water 2024 Adult Turkey Hunting Contest!  Please read all of the rules below and reply to the topic with which contest you'd like to enter if you'd like to participate!

Reference Links:

• Paypal Link to donate to the NYW&W 2024 Adult or Youth Turkey Hunting Contest  (Please select Adult Contest in the dropdown)
• NY Woods & Water 2024 Turkey Contest Rules, Signups and Donations
• NY Woods & Water 2024 Turkey Contest Teams and Entries

 

Contest Entry Fees

Team Contest: FREE

Individual Contest: FREE

Paypal Link to donate to the NYW&W 2024 Adult or Youth Turkey Hunting Contest  (Please select Adult Contest in the dropdown)

 

Contest Rules

1. NY Birds only. Must be taken with a gun, bow, or crossbow.

2. All NYDEC laws in effect.

3. Limit ONE bird per contestant.  However, you may upgrade to a larger bird during the course of the season if you harvest a higher scoring bird.

4. You must report all turkeys in the contest entries topic with the following requirements:

• Your entry must include a picture of you with the turkey
• Your entry must include all of the turkey's beard lengths and pictures of each beard length 
• Your entry must include both of the turkey's spur lengths and pictures of each spur length
• Your entry must include the spur and beard scoring portions of the NWTF score (https://www.nwtf.org/the-lifestyle/turkey-records-home)

NWTF reference for measuring:

Spur measuring:

Measure each spur. Spurs must be measured along the outside center, from the point at which the spur protrudes from the scaled leg skin to the tip of the spur. Add both spur measurements and multiply the combined length of the spurs by 10. This is the number of points you receive for the turkey’s spurs.

Beard measuring:

Measure the beard length (a beard must be measured from the center point of the protrusion of the skin to the tip) and convert it to decimal form.

Next, multiply the beard length figure by 2; this is the number of points you receive for the beard length. If you have an atypical bird (multiple beards), measure each beard, convert them to a decimal number, then add those figures together and multiply by two. This is the number of points you receive for your turkey’s beards.

5. Scores will be the total of the NWTF scoring portions for spur and beard measurements

6. Team Contest signup period ends at 9:00PM on Tuesday April 30th, 2024 which is the day before the Adult opening day on May 1st, 2024.  

7. Teams will be randomly drawn.  Exception for Parent/Child being together on the same Team

8. Individual Contest signup period is open for entire season, however entries will be valid only for birds taken after entering the contest!

9. Contest runs the entire legal NY spring gobbler season.  All birds must be entered within 7 days after the end of the spring gobbler season.

 

Team Contest Participants

1. @mowin
2. @dmandoes
3. @Mattypotpie8s
4. @turkeyfeathers
5. @dbHunterNY
6. @NYRturkeycall
7. @cynthiafu
8. @2012-Taco
9.  

 

Individual Contest Participants

1. @mowin
2. @dmandoes
3. @Mattypotpie8s
4. @turkeyfeathers
5. @dbHunterNY
6. @NYRturkeycall
7. @cynthiafu
8. @2012-Taco
9.  

 

Contest Prizes

Donations Distribution:  There will be approximately a 50% Team/50% Individual split of the Total Monetary Donations towards prize distribution.

Individual Prizes:

Total:  $TBD

• 1st Place: $TBD (~50%)
• 2nd Place: $TBD (~33%)
• 3rd Place: $TBD (~17%)

Winning Team Prizes:

Total:  $TBD

Each member on winning team:  $TBD

 

Contest Donations

Total Monetary Donations:  $200 ($TBD Team/$TBD Individual)

Donors:

1. NY Woods & Water

 

Items Donated:

Item:  Framed turkey print
Donor: @2012-Taco

 

 

 

[mowin]

I'm in for the team contest.

[nywaw]

One note, I did add an entry fee to the Adult Individual contest this year, which is what we've always had on the NJ site as there was a preference there to have a separate prize pool for it (same thing we do with the Deer contest too).  If there's a strong preference to not have an entry fee, we can shift to that.

[dmandoes]

Do the team champs from last year get to defend their rings?

[nywaw]

Bump!  Don't be shy, was a fun contest last year!

We will redraw teams this year to be fair!

[dmandoes]

I'm in for team contest.

[nywaw]

bump!

[dmandoes]

At this point, it looks like I will have championship rings two years in a row. 

[nywaw]

16 minutes ago, dmandoes said:

At this point, it looks like I will have championship rings two years in a row. 

We def need some more hunters to join haha

[nywaw]

bump!  Signups are a little light, let's go!

One week until teams are drawn, if we have enough.

I've removed the fee for the Individual contest to encourage others to join, it is now FREE again this year.

Both have $100 prizes up for grabs so far!

[2BuckBizCT]

@turkeyfeathers @The_Real_TCIII

[Mattypotpie8s]

Ok I’ll bite

[turkeyfeathers]

In for team. Looking forward to calling for daughter, friends who’ve never killed a bird . But think I can probably fill my 2 NY tags as well. 

[nywaw]

@mowin and @dmandoes

You guys want in the Individual?  It's free to enter now!

[nywaw]

On 4/24/2024 at 8:43 PM, Mattypotpie8s said:

Ok I’ll bite

Both Team and Individual?  No reason not to get in both...free and potential to win money in both!