Many moons ago, I got out late one spring morning and was walking up a logging road to an area where I had put a gobbler to bed the night before. I didn't know what the bird looked like, 'cause I hadn't hunted this area in years, so when I got to within 100 yds. of where I thought the bird was roosted, I gave a couple of soft yelps, and the gobbler sounded off about 25 yds. away in some thick birch saplings. Well, I really messed up, 'cause I didn't have any good cover to set up in, so I just laid flat in the road, and had that gobbler come within 6' of Me. He was one of the heaviest birds I've ever seen, but He didn't have a trace of a beard on his chest! Not even a little opening where a beard had been! He also had the longest spurs I've ever seen on a wild bird! Quite a disappointment!