Pretty interesting opener for me. Friday night we had this huge bird strutting out behind the house for about 4 hours and we watched him go up into the roost, and then we noticed a truck parked up on the hill watching him too. It was a guy from Penn United. Penn United owns this land and we have permission to hunt there as well but this is just a small tract of land and there's no sense in more than one person hunting there. He has more of a right to hunt there than we do so he went there for the opener. We went to the spot we hunt deer at and didn't hear anything at daybreak. I just called everyone 10 minutes or so and listening to other people calling all around me. Then the 4 longbeards that we've been seeing around that property started gobbling. There's one that's a year older than the other 3 and you can tell which one he is just because his gobble is so much raspier than the others. I could tell he was closer to me than the other 3 birds. Now I wouldn't consider myself a very good caller, so I was suprised when I realized he was coming into my call. When I could tell he was getting close I got my gun up and turned the way that I thought he would come. Then he gobbled once on the other side of the tree line so I moved and started pointing that way, and then low and behold he shows up on the side of the treeline that I was watching at first. He was huge too. Big body, 11"+ beard. Those birds are tricky.

Sorry team, I'm trying. Apparently that guy from Penn United missed the bird. Well we saw the bird when we came back in from hunting and my grandma said she saw him leave really early, so my guess is that he missed and just left. I might slip in there tommorow morning if we see him tonight. Here's to hoping!