RE: What's the closest you've had a mature strutter?
Had a group of jakes and toms come in Wednesday. The biggest long beard stopped behind a screen of brush, to my right (I'm right handed) and sent the jake to investigate the deke. I'd about decided to try a left-handed shot through the brush when the jake walked into my lap. At three feet he decided he didn't like me or the deke and alarm putted. I paced it to the long beard after they hauled butt - five yards.