Well, status of todays hunt consists of lots of four letter words... first day of our five day season called in two small jakes that were passed on, day two called in three small jakes that were passed on, day three had a storm and a cold front move in birds got quiet didn't see a thing, and today was day four...

we started out today by setting up on a different gobbler that had been in the same roost every morning and found out that he wasn't in that roost he was about a quarter mile away and across the road so we moved closer and set up and started calling. He gobbled and gobbled finally leaving his roost about 7:00 and came all the way until he was only about 100 yards away and closing fast. He got to the road and stopped, gobbled a bit more and turned around heading the other direction, he just did not want to cross the road. So, we decided to move to where we had been the first two mornings and set up to see if anything was still there...

we set up and waited about 15 minutes before calling and i called for about 10 minutes before GOBBLE! about 30 yards right behind us followed by the psst psst hmmmm of him spitting and drumming... this was the big one we were after, HOWEVER, as i said he was BEHIND us. we were set up in some thick brush on the edge of a food plot and we did this so that they couldn't come in from behind us... well thats where he was. Iyelped, cluckedand purred and he would not go the 10 feet he needed to to come around the side where my dad had the shot... well my dad decided to try to turn around and did so slowly and quietly but the gobbler turned and high tailed it straight away and never looked back!

Tomorrow is the last day of his season and we are hoping to see that gobbler back in the area but I don't know if he'll be back or not... either way it was a eventful and very exciting morning.. you gotta love hearing that drumming right behind you... Hope you all have better luck than we did!

I gotta ask. You posted pretty early. Not sure where your from. Even on the east coast it was only 9:30. Did you have to bail for work or something? Just that many a turkey been shot later than that.

Good luck tomorrow.

Pretty exiting week nevertheless

Well it sounds to me like the caller is the problem... callin em from the wrong direction and all...just kidding. Just wait for our season and we'll take care of that boy. I hope you can get one for your dad though, sounds like he really wants one, mainly to beat you from the one we got last year for ya. I would really like to help call even, but I can't get outta here for a little while, so oh well. Good luck on the last day! Personally, anything that comes in at this point would be dead.
Bubba

Yeah me and my dad both had to bail early for work... plus at that point it kinda seemed like every bird in our woods was heading full speed straight away from us so i guess it was kind of a lets start fresh tomorrow thing... but yeah, we both had to work

Good luck to yas