Dang. Sounds like you did well slipping out

I messed up with a rookie mistake Sunday morning. Heard one gobble mid morning close, caught me off guard and didn't know exactly where he was. I yelped once and he hammered it. I knew exactly where he was and exactly how to get there quick. I moved over to the road he was on and got set up and yelped once,... He gobbled again, but was exactly where I just was. He must have been hard up for it because he covered some ground quick.

I stayed put and called a little more and he kept gobbling and kept closing ground.

I see him coming, through the thick stuff. Safety off, he's full strut, going to wait for him to either come out of strut or gobble and extend neck and bust him...

All of a sudden out of nowhere, a gobble closer than I've ever had a bird gobble at me from directly behind me. Less than 10 feet. Clearly the dominant bird, because bird I had in sights dropped strut turned and left.

Now this bird behind me continues to gobble and spit right behind me, I considered the spin and shoot move, but that never works. at one point I could see him strutting in corner of my eye.

I never moved, he realized something was off and just eased back down the road he came in on.

It was as good of a hunt without killing one I've ever been on.


Went back Tuesday and Wednesday before work, heard a few but nothing that I could do before work.

Have been home the last two days with a sick baby, RSV, which is horrible btw.

Going to bullock county tomorrow morning, will be back at Line Creek Saturday and Sunday.

We need to get on the board