Good read. I enjoyed that, and congrats on your birds! Sites like this, searching the internet, watching videos and talking to other hunters are great ways to get more information on turkey hunting, but nothing replaces experience and learning how to do it on your own. Thats the only real way of getting better at it, and it's great to see you getting out there and learning on your own. Too many people expect the information on the internet to bypass needing the actual experience, and I've found it just doesn't work that way.

I love you point of learning the lesson of a better setup. That to me has been the most important thing I've learned over the years. I didn't kill a lot of bird I should have because of a bad setup before. Once I really started to realize that, and focus on being better at picking the right setup, from general location and then down to exactly what side of a tree to sit on, I have been much more successful. I've killed some birds I probably shouldn't have based on everything that happened with the hunt, but I just had a good setup. I'd take the right setup over the best calling and decoys any day. That being said I am still always trying to get better, I still screw myself at least once a year.