Mottz you dirty dog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awsome!!! Congrats!! Great bird and can't beleive that fan thing worked! Very cool, that must have been quite the thrill doin it like that. Another great score for the team.

Well now that thats out of the way, let me bring the mood down a bit! Can't beleive how crappy my luck is lately!!! Got set up befor light this morn, had the dekes out and lookin good. Started hearing gobblin on the roost, kinda far to the east and not far at all to the west. The close one was gobblin hard and i could also hear a hen but didn't sound like it was with the gobbler(that shoulda told me somethin right there). Could tell when he was on the ground and kept right on gobblin good. Sounded like he was no morre than 200yrds away, and i know the love to come in this feild so i'm sure its just a matter of time and i'm gonna get a chance. But just like that, it all ended. Right from where i was hearin him.....BOOM.........BOOM! My jaw dropped into the dirt! Last thing i woulda ever suspected was another hunter. If this guy wasn't on the prop i was, he had to have been right on the line! A couple more minutes went by, i was just about to get up and i hear the guy start callin again, then BOOM!!! again! Almost immediately after the third shot i see the bird goin like a streak a sh%t down the trail about 80 yrds in from of me. Come to find out the prop line is right there close but man! This bird almost had to have been on my side on that last shot. Wosre than this guy being there was the fact that he missed, so he's gonna keep bein there. Least for the rest of the day i figured.
So i got up and went to the house to talk to the land owner, he couldn't beleive someone else was out their either, but did say the line was right there close. Then goes on to tell me there were 10 birds out there yesterday afternoon, 5 strutters. After hearin that i did go back and sit for a few more hours, seen a couple loan hens pass thru but that was it. Didn't go back out the rest of the day and not sure how much more i'm gonna do. Not workin tomorrow but can't go first thing in the morn, or in the eve, but may try to go out around 8 and sit till noon or something. After that i may be done, not sure if i'll get another chance to go. All this playin aint bringin no money in so if i can work this week i gotta do it. May get a chance next weekend but its iffy. I'm startin to taste that bitter twinge of tag in the back of my throat!
Congrats again Mottz! Phil, tomorrow's the big day buddy! Go get a good one!