Went to the woods this morning snd got set up under a big pine, set the decoys out about thirty yards in the field and waited on daylight. at 7:15 I had not heard a bird, probably because of the rain. I did a fly down cackle and flaped my wing. I got a instance response about 75 yards up the ridge. in just a few min three birds glided off the roost and into the field probably a hundred yards off, they were joined by five more birds soon after. i was giving a few soft yelps to get thier attention and they kept moving slowly away. it was a pretty sight watching the old boss tom strut around and then he would chase off the less dominate gooblers. finally at 8:30 i got out the old raspy mouth call and gave a few loud yelps and some serious cutting. they went crazy and goobled thier heads off. i seen the two lesser birds break off and head my way, they came across the top of a little hump in the field spotted the decoys and came in on a string. I shoot the biggest one of the two at seven yards. it weighed 20.4 lbs and had a 9 1/2 inch beard and inch spurs. not bad for a scrub
the funny thing was that the shoot didnt effect the other birds at all. they continued to feed along the field and goobled to my calls. i guess me and wv boy might have to pay them another visit monday.
