ok...i am finally ready to fess up to a big time rookie mistake i made this morning..our opener....i am having trouble living with myself..and am currently NOT talking to MYSELF lol...but i get to the far side of the BIG hay coverd hill...waiting for the sound off...think it was 545 one sounded off...then within 5 minutes i had many birds gobbling HARD right infront of me in the woods...all deep throaty good sounding gobbles..i was pumped...2yrs ago the same thing happend...same spot...i snuck in and rolled a longbeard at flydown..not thinking..and excited to hear a gobble for the first time in a year i ran to the spot i sat 2yrs ago..being sneaky....but forgot the key factor...the reason i didnt hunt there last year...they logged that hillside...the fenceline isnt touched...and there are trees in a gulley...where i went in...still gobbling...ahhh stupid blowdown in the way i need 10more yards! maybe ill just sit in it!..sneak over to it...poke my head around a tree to think about sitting there...FLAP FLAP FLAP!!! one gobbler and 2 unknown birds fly away!! DANG...ok i heard a few more to the left 100yds away...lets see what happens.....hen is calling in the bottom assembling her flock...gobbler goes nuts infront of me..YES! stupid me....i reply with a series of yelps...flap flap flap....2 birds fly out of that tree!! i royally screwed up...TWICE..there were atleast 3 diffrent birds gobbling...maybe more....plus the hen...it should been an EASY textbook hunt! the hard part should been walking out with a longbeard!! and i go and screw up because i wasnt thinking!!!! i am MAD at myself...i KNEW better...sunday scouting i said DONT walk in here they will bust you....stupid stupid stupid!!!!!! my question is...do you think they will come back next saturday?? im the only one that will be hunting them im 95% sure...thats why most of the time its a text book hunt there...i love it....but im afraid that they are gone....ive never spooked turkeys and planned to go back and hunt them..i dont know what to expect....i got a new setup planned...should workout just as good if i can get them to go left...which shouldnt be a problem being there isnt much woods and theres good sign left.....but do you think i ruined them birds?? the first 3 heard/maybe seen me...the other 2 just plain out knew i wasnt a hen...weather they watched me make the call...or looked when i called and KNEW there wasnt a hen because i didnt have the deks out..i dont know...anyone ever deal with anything like that before?? im upset with myself..i KNEW better!!!!!