Must be in the stars
I've been after this same gobbler since the second week of the season. He has been giving me fits. He would gobble his head off but never come to a call and always go the other way. But I finally got him figured out and his daily routine. Last night before he went to roost I set up along his travel corridor. Well I could hear him gobbling about every 15 mins and he was coming closer and closer. Out about 75 yds I caught some movement and looked thru the binos and it was him. Just walking along slowly, picking at the ground and letting out his gobbles. Well it turned out I wasn't the only hunter in the woods that evening. I caught the flash of a coyote who was also lying in wait (or stalking him). He was making a mad dash for old Mr. Tom. But being the wary bird he is, he made his escape. So both our hunts got ruined last night. All I can is Mr. Coyote is lucky he didn't come back my way or he would have been eating a charge of Winchester Supreme #5s.