good-Called in three mature toms in 2 days
bad- all three spooked, putted, and left before I could pull the trigger.

Talk about a head scratcher. I am hunting borderline woods and cow pasture with mostly woods surrounding the area and I am in a corner where the turkeys pretty much wanted to be this season. They were nearby all day and evening within 200 or 300 yards and gobbling and responding.

The first bird I called in came in spitting and drumming I watched it through the brush, it walked past where I was sitting and I did was wait for it to clear the brambles so I could take a shot. When it cleared I had a DSD hen that should have been visible and he would have been at about 15 yards. As soon as he stepped out past the brush heard putt putt, he turnd and walked back behind the brush. I was sitting in my gobbler lounger, gun up, head down, waiting and never moved. This happened two more times in the next two days in just about the same spot within 50 to 100 yards of my first busted encounter. I was as still as I have been in the past when I have bagged birds but for some reason they knew something was up as soon as I was visible to them.

The only thought I have is that my gun is a fully black matte finish and when they got into somewhat of an open spot, they saw that and immediately spooked.

If anybody has any reason or experience with being busted while being "ready" please share. It was so much fun calling in birds these few days but not filling a tag is so darn depressing.