On the board!

[twyatt]

1st day of my opening week of turkey season vacation was a success.  Not a whole lot to this story, I headed to a spot where some other guys in my lease said that they had heard a bird yesterday, and as I'm easing down the logging road in that direction, I hear a bird start hammering towards the end of the road where it opens up to a pond.  I can tell he's at the end somewhere around the pond, so I set up about 100 yards before the road ends and put the decoys out in the road.  The bird proceeds to gobble about 100 times, on his own, at crows, just non stop.  I do a little light calling on the wingbone and he answers back, I scratch the leaves, he answers back, but not getting any closer.  I'm guessing he's probably got hens and is strutting out by the pond since his gobbles aren't getting any closer, but then things go quiet for a few minutes, and the next gobble I hear is probably 60 yards.  Another minute or two and I hear footsteps, and then see him coming through the woods and not up the road like I had guessed he would.  He gets to where the road meets the woods and stops and starts putting.  Oh no!  I don't know if he saw me, or got right up on the decoys before he realized it and they spooked him, but he turns and starts walking away and putting, but keeps looking back at the decoys.  He walks off about 10 yards back into the woods, and then turns and starts heading right back to the decoys, pops out in the road, and goes into full strut 2' from the decoys, turns sideways, and sticks his head out, and I dropped him right there.   Man what a blast!  One of my PA partners in crime rolls in tonight.  He's up to bat next
Sorry, I'm not quite the photographer you guys are.

[harleytom]

Congrats! Looks like a good one


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[BennieGobbler]

Awesome dude!!!!


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[Yoder409]

Congrats, man !!!!

Well done !!!!

[JeffC]

Congratulations

[Tom007]

Way to go brother! Congrats, we are on a roll......

[Vintage]

Congrats nice bird.

[zsully]

That's awesome man!!!!! Congrats on a great bird!!!

[Mossyguy]

Heck yea man!

[Meleagris gallopavo]

Well done Travis!


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[a_jabbo]

I've already told you congrats, but why not say it one more time. Congratulations buddy

[KHNC]

Nice bird!