Well I'm kind of embarassed to admit it but I completly blew an absolute perfect opportunity to getreal nice gobbler with my longbow.

I'll try to keep this short:

I was on a powerline with my decoy spread, I was tucked just inside the woods behind an old rock wall. Perfect cover spot for me to get a shot from, except that the comfort factor wasn't real good when I faced my dekes for long periods of time. The morning was quiet, no birds sounding off anywhere close. I continued to give some calls every so often.About 20minsafter a hen came in and spooked from my setup, from the other direction, I hear the drumming of a strutting bird. I turn around to see a big fan RACING to my decoys on the other side of the wall. I scramble to get into position, grab my bow, and prepare for the shot. Finally I raise up, and thats where everything falls to pieces. I just drew back& fired in seemingly the general direction of the bird. There was no focus, no concentration, no nothing of a normal shot sequence. I didn't even know where my arrow went. The bird had NO clueI was there, and only cared about strutting for my dekes. He never really even moved on the shot. I grabbed another arrow, but by this time he had moved out of my shooting window, then up along the woods, where he proceeded to go in and out of strut about 40 yds from me for another couple minutes. Keeping one eye to that weird guy behind the rock wall, the other to my dekes.
In the end I did manage to be close enough with my shot that I took out about 8-10 feathers, but that's all. I'm not one to really lose it in front of game, I am a bit disappointed in myself.[:@]

I'll be back in the same spot this saturday.