I'm back in...

[growalot]

Ya my bladder blew it...lol...What a fun morning...they roosted where I thought they might and I had toms up on the ridge just hammering away in front to the side and behind me...I did some tree yelping and then I heard them moving some toward me and others to the neighbors...there was one 5:40 shot across the street and down the hill and then I heard two shots up at the neighbor to my east and another to the south...by this time I could see birds moving down the hill and 100yards out...they were at the clover trails and Gobbling...had calling behind me and it turned out to be a hen.....everything went quiet when the call of nature reared up....I couldn't wait any longer and at 8:45 I reached down to grab my gun sling and reattach it...as I sat back up a glimpse of red caught my eye and there was a hen staring at me. Freezing didn't work...she'd seen the movement in the blind then tucked and ran...I raised the gun just in case and sure enough a big long beard was behind her and farther out...he  saw her run and had his feathers tucked tight and head straight out....there just was no shot he was moving too fast and at the limits of the 20ga...Figures...then another shot below me as I stepped out of the blind...

 

Wow it was the most active morning I have hunted here as far as shots and #'s of Toms gobbling...all the other  birds I heard were on us before fly down except two.

 I am so surprised I heard anything  for I managed to walk the trail under were they were roosting to get to the blind and I spooked deer from step one all the way to getting into the blind ...running and snorting and snorting and snorting...I spooked up 4 different groups of deer...from the sounds of them running west/east and south to get away.

 

No bird but a great opener non the less...

 

PS.... TIME STAMP ON SITE FOR ME IS 1 HR BEHIND

Edited May 1, 2015 by growalot

[G-Man]

Sounds fun , has 4 different birds gobbling, moved I n and set up on closest, had Jake fly down and come in at 12 yards, couldn't see beard let it go, kept gobbling below.me, got up.and moved 100 yards closer to where I heard another gobble, had big gobbler.come running in ...and right by me headed for jake that was still gobbling, had a small opening and it drops and flops around. Rolling down the hill crashing the whe way , I get up and go over and no gobbler! Feathers and leaves scattered in a trail down the hill and 20 yards onto the flat and no bird, going back out with some friends to look after lunch, ..never saw it get up or fly it's a steep hill and after I heard last crash all was quiet,bird has to be half.plucked rolling down that hill by the feathers everywhere, 20 years ago I could of got up fast and ran to that bird, legs and knees no longer respond like they use too...

[ants]

Sounds like a good morning……I had birds out in front of me but just too far out.  Still fun...