Juno grl - Sounds like you got to meet my better half while I was off on State business over in Sitka. We are looking forward to the Toyo installation - they are a great piece of equipment. Hope you' re getting around better all the time - you don' t want to have bad ankles when the slippery stuff gets here!

ABM - That' s too bad about putting on all the mileage after seeing that smaller bull, but you just never know do you? There could have been a monster just a little ways down the road. [:' (] My son-in-law shot a nice deer over near Sitka yesterday. He and his partner saw a total of 22 does on their roundtrip up one side of the drainage and back down the other side. He finally took a large animal seeing as there was no apparent shortage. It had a heck of a layer of fat on top of its " straps" . (Made me jealous thinking about all those great chops!)

beej - That sounds like some real good potential at your sites in TN and MO. Best of luck! I can' t give you any pointers seeing as I' m not only new to turkey chasing, but never have tried it yet in the Fall. But it sounds to me like learning the " kee-kee" run on the mouth call would improve your chances of having a lost bird home in on you after you scare up a flock. That one and the fly-down cackle are my " project" calls to learn for this Winter and Spring and at the moment I' d have all the birds breaking up with laughter if I tried either out in the woods! Good luck on your combination hunts.