Hey guys!!! I wish I had a big Ol' Gobbler thrown on my back right now IL - Dang!!! But I will tell you ONE THING - it makes me happy as hell to have u rootin' for me!!!

Well - we were in the woods set up at 5 a.m. This was my husband's first time turk hunting too - so I guess you could say it was the blind leading the blind this morning!!! LOL I'll tell you what, I'm not sure my heart has EVER raced that hard!!! We had 6-10 gobblers within 300 yards of us - gobbling up a storm still on the roost. Had a nice one about 100-150 yards from us. We could also hear several jakes to the East of us. We sat there drooling and anticipating - waiting for them to fly down and BOOM! We had a real early gun shot to the East of us. Then just as it started to get light, we could hear the turkey's moving West of us. We got up and snuck to the West - did some soft yelps - heard another hunter right behind us yelp back. DANG IT! He snuck in there on us.

Hubby and I spent a lot of time trying to figure out why ALL of them went WEST. I know we had 10+ (toms/jakes) out there gobbling like crazy. Why would they ALL have gone the same direction??? Talked to Arrowmaster about it earlier - of course the obvious answer is that they followed the hens. We also noticed as we were leaving that there is an unplowed field there - maybe that's what attracted the hens... ??? What do you guys think???

I wish I was going out this evening - but Hubby had to work. We'll be out early tomorrow. A few lessons learned and even hungrier than we were this morning! LOL We're going to sit off that unplowed field and hope we cut them off on their way there.

Sorry for a long story and NO POINTS - but hoping maybe u guys will help have a suggestion or two!!!

TOMORROW IS MY DAY - I can feel it! hehehe

Kim