determined

i learned in my first year after months of watching videos,audio tapes,patterning,assembling equipment and expert advice from this message board,that i could make it happen non-guided by choice.i learned to enjoy the woods and that the harvest was secondary.i learned that when a gobbler flies down to hens or has hens with him,has to be the toughest scenerio in turkey hunting.i learned to call sparingly and softly to birds on the roost,scratching the leaves can be big.a big thing i learned after hearing so much gobbling was distance,how far am i from that bird?on my last day of hunting,i did not give up and harvested a big beautifull bird,never,ever,give up.be motionless,be quiet.decoys are great,he walked into mine.locator calls are overated,never got a response from a half a dozen of them.im a new turkey hunter,but thats what i learned.