Lawdwaz

That picture put 40lbs on me, Covid 19 helped.

PM me with your address, I'll have Wegman's drop off a Butterball. That'll make you & your wife feel better....... Sorry to hear, hope she mends up PDQ.

Yesterday.........went to my spot in Arcade. Got there plenty early and around 5:30am I had some very distant gobbling in an area I know well. Got as close as I dared as they were on the ground already and got set up. It sounded like an adult and a jake to my untrained ear. They appeared to be separated by 75-100 yards and I kept having to focus my attention on the one that sounded like the adult. After coming to probably 100 yards they headed towards a big open field, one that they like to head to and strut their stuff for their hens. I decided I'd better try and cut them off if possible so I backed off and circled down around towards the field. I made my set up ready and hit them with a couple horeshoe call yelps. I got some hot replies and here they come but my elation was short lived as the came to just below the crest of a little rise I was on and hung up, maybe 50 yards. They backed off and headed in a different direction this time! I gave them some time and devised a new plan. They were heading east and I knew that area good too, as I've been fooled just about everywhere on this block. I decided to sneak as best I could up the hill to a flat between two big fields but trying to not be exposed to the decent chunk of open woods between these two fields. Well I got into position and made a quick excited yelp or two on the mouth call with no reply, then after a few minutes I hit the crow call and got the same thing, NUTHIN'. Oh crap, here we go.......another dead end with henned up birds and and empty game bag. BTDT So I reached into my bag of tricks and pulled out the old Lynch box call and figured why not? It's always my last choice as I like my mouth calls better but I cranked out a series of yelps and holy kielbasa they hollered and close too!! I shimmied over to another tree about 15' away with a better trunk structure for that direction, it was risky as the gobbles were close but I went anyway. All was quiet for a couple minutes and I decided to scratch out another short series on the box and BAM, here we go, set the call down and up with the gun. Within seconds here comes two red heads, damn jakes. Then a big white head popped up, then two more red heads. The first two jakes were getting close, like 15' away and they started to putt putt. Damn, ok big white head gobbling Jake today is your day. About 9:15 AM No excuses, I shot a Jake and I'm proud of it. He had a 5" beard with a second beard 2" (2 1/8" for Bizzy) although it wasn't totally vertical it wasn't horizontal like his four other red headed buddies. I shot the bad ass of the group.

OK guys & gals, double down on the prayers............put all you have into it.

1000% agreed. Sometimes it’s perfect and others I just want to frisbee it in the woods. It always sounds unreal at home though....

Damn, prayers and well wishes for Ana. Thanks for keeping us updated ........

Great job on the turkey and feesh Rob......damn I hope we can come up this summer like we were planning. I NEED to fish this year.

Nobody asked me but that'd be a dandy spot for a trail cam.........

Good for you, some semblance of normality will be good. I wish I had some, kind of.

Domestic turkey breast tonight (and tomorrow night as well) for us. Mashed potatoes, broccoli and beer will top it off.......

Almost.........

I've probably mentioned, you could count on one hand the birds I've killed off the roost. I had a SLAM DUNK Saturday morning and I flubbed it. Man O man is it gratifying when you do it though. Hearty congratulations!

Someday I'll try a Vortex product as all I hear are good things. I bought a Burris FF3 a couple years ago and it gave me some trouble lately. I take the battery out at the end of each season at put it back in at the start of the new one. The threads on the cap are very fine and as far as I know I haven't buggered them up but sometimes it acts goofy and won't come on. I bought a new battery last week and all was good until I missed that gobbler Saturday morning, the sight was out after the shot and it wouldn't come back on. I high-tailed it back to the truck, got a screwdriver and pulled the cover and reinstalled it and it's working now. I am not flush with confidence with my Burris FF3........hence the Vortex thoughts.

The hens will draw another gobbler or two in as the season continues. More opportunities for you soon.

If it’s not too cold for you, don’t worry about the gobbler. If he’s hot, you’re in!!

I have been reluctant to post my first two days recap because of a major blunder; I missed a slam dunk yesterday morning. 5:50am and I had him dead to rights at maybe 20 yards but just his head and fan were visible. (oh and my gun was pointing too far to the right) He went behind a small tree and I swung over, as he came out I was kind of contorted and squinting as I was shooting right handed and am more proficient lefty........I guess I rushed it. At that point he was probably 30 yards or so. After that I worked another adult that must have had a hen, he didn't play by the script at all. Moved to my third location and worked a couple Jakes in easily two different times from 10am-noon. One of them sounded so much like an adult I couldn't believe he didn't have a vertical beard. Exciting Friday was pretty good at another spot too but only resulted in an unfilled tag. A silent bird coming into about 10' off my left shoulder before I couldn't resist looking and spooked him to Canada...LOL Around 11am I had two Jakes come into 20 yards and stand there for 15 minutes just staring holes in me. Exciting Today I slept in. The birds can wait.....

That thing is 10' in the air!! Troublesome at best.........

I like the form with the horns!!

Black flies were annoying yesterday and today between 10-12:00 Hate those bastards.......

For you.....

Well done, congratulations.

Looks like the guy that wanted the Browning Superposed 20ga has backed out. I'll probably list it here before moving it elsewhere. I'll PM you and Suburbanfarmer first to give you guys a shot at it but it may not be for a few days.

BTW.......that's a popular log with the critters. The buck I killed last fall with the rifle, about ten days prior.

Hopefully this works. Youtube has been difficult today...... These are a few days apart and beautiful to watch!