RE: Close encounters.....
Last season mytwo buddiesand I we re set up along a field edge behind his house where he'd been seeing several very nice toms. First light we had one gobble a couple hundred yards in front of us across the field. I'd already killed my two birds for the season so I was just tagging along to call for him. I'd made a few yelps followed by a couple sharp cuts to get him fired up. Right after that i heard somethign walking behind me and i very slowly turned my head to meet face to face with a hen standing no further than three feet behind me. The hensaw our decoy set up and proceeded to walk rightpast me and then right in between my teo buddies being nofurther than a couple yards from them. She went out to the decoys andputzed around there for a while until eventually shemoved off.Pretty neat experience.