Got my 1st bird of the year this morning, guess I can quit calling in to work so much. The crazy thing is since opening morning I have not heard them gobble. Even this morning I was caught a little off guard had three sneak right up behind me. I had been giving some soft yelps, but had got no feed back. When I saw them I stoped calling and just hoped they would see my decoys. Two didnt but one did, they were all pretty close to the same size. I had my hen on the ground and my jake set up behind her. Without saying a word he walked right up struting the whole time and walked right in front of the gun. I felt like I was deer hunting almost first time I have ever killed one without hearing a single gobble all morning. It was just three toms so they were not henned up I dont know; go figure.

Congrats to ya! Man I cant wait for the season to get here in my neck of the woods!

I had 4 gobblers come in behind me once. I could hear them in the dry leaves for a hundred yards at mid morning. They walked in on both sides. The big one was 35 yards away before I could get my gun in position with all those eye watching....

FUN ISN'T IT??????

congrats

congrats...

Never know what's going to happen out in the woods...every day is an adventure.

Congrats!

Congrats and thanks for the turkey lesson..Us newbees need all the help we can get .

Chuck,
Its fantastic to see people getting into the sport. I enjoy turkey hunting almost as much as spring topwater bass fishing
This place has all sorts of information on turkeys. Hopefully, we see you with a few more bigguns in the future.

They can be sneaky! congrats

congrats on the bird -