Yeh, you are supposed to shoot 'em. I didn't this morning and I'll regret until I score again.
Had one bird gobbling, the monarch of the lowlands. He shut up about 75 yards out and when he did show up by my decoy at 12 yards, I thought he looked small and thought maybe a jake had slipped in on my tom.
He turned behind some pine saplings and hit several big gobbles that left no doubt he was a full grown gobbler![X(]
And no, he never came back and presented a shot but I got quite an earful of spitting drumming and gobbling behind those pine saplings. 35 yards away and I never saw him again but I sure heard him![&:]