I finally made it to the Woods this morning to do a little scouting, Man was it wet, but a gorgeous morning. No wind and calm as could be.
I went into the area where I've taken several Birds, sat down and opened up my coffee bottle, poured a little hot brew. I had just about finished my first cup about 5 minutes before daylight when a Bird Gobbled about 60 yds in front of me on the hill, I shot "HOT" Coffee outa both nostrils! Totally caught me off gaurd, I wasnt expecting one to be quite that close. Anyway, I sat there motionless waiting for the flydown and listening to several hens about 30 yds to his left when another bird about 100yds away and to my left started lighting the woods up, It was great! The birds in front of me started flying down and feeding towards a cut over, with the Tom gobblin his head off. I got up and moved towards the cut-over and slipped up to the edge and watched two Toms strutting their stuff for about 15 minutes undisturbed, it really got the heart to pumping. The hens fed off to the other side of the cutover with the two toms in hot pursuit, after they were out of site, I went over to one of the wind rows and started making me a little ground blind and just about got it finished when I heard some clucking behind the wind row, I looked over and there was a Jake running around in circles trying to figure out what kinda critter was making all the movement behind all of the limbs- He was only about 30 yds from me and acting all goofy turning his head left and right, it was funny as hell.. He moved off and I finished the ground blind, I'll be sitting there with my 11 yr old and his new Rem 870 on the Youth hunt on Mar 20.. I'm gonna take the video camera and Video the whole hunt, He wants to do all of the calling so I just get to sit their and watch and hopefully cry after it's all over with-

I'm Pumped!