Well, here is bird number 2. Even though we can only enter one for the contest, I thought I would post it anyways. Besides, I believe JW has a seperate score sheet for the total number of birds taken by a team...even though I believe we are in last place...lol.

Itook this guy Sunday morning. I seen him strutted out with 3 hens about 200 yards away to my right. I then had a hen come in to my decoys from my left. She milled around the decoys and was yelping & clucking...so I put my call down and let her do the dirty work. She called enough to get the Tom & 3 hens to start working their way over, then she started going out to meet them. They met up about 100 yards away. So I picked up my call and started doing some softclucks and purrs. Sure enough, the group of hens started coming in and he followed behind them. Had them all within 30 yards, but he wouldn't break strut. After the hens milled around the decoys for a couple minutes, they started to loose interest in my foam decoys....lol. Since the Tom wouldn't break strut, I hade to take himat 27 yards when he was in half strut. 23 lbs, 8" beard, 3/4" spurs. Tagged out in Iowa. Good luck to anyone still chasing birds.



Your score is 23 + 7.5 + 7.5 + 16 = 54