ORIGINAL: firelt72
Maybe so, but man it stinks putting in 16 out 21 posible hunting days (Including thos ein MO) and come up 100% empty....That is hard to explain to the wife and kids LOL..Yeah I spent $700 to go to MO and who knows how much here and get three pretty tags. Man....You understand the frustration Kenny. I love this stuff, but it is hard to justify the time when the bottom falls out....The other part had to be not getting a bird with the gun and all the emotional attachments that went with it.
Off topic, you think I could have killed that monster with a Tom Deke that morning????Just curious to what you think he'd have done different? Be safe!!!
It may have helped Fire the Tom decoy. I have to agree that Tom was a nice one. I wish we had that hunt all over again. To be honest I have never seen a Tom hang up like he did. I have never seen a tom go into the corner of the woods and strut. Usuallyhe is strutting in the fields showing his stuff off. But he was back and forth so many times on that point. That was a stubborn bird.