Was wondering how many of us made the mistake of naming a gobbler this year and he is still alive and well.
I have one in Montgomery county who dodged a load of #5's from a 20 ga on the first week. Went after him several times afterwards, once with Dale, once with HokieGobbler and once with my wife, quite a few times by myself. Was working him on the last week at 60 yards, strutting and gobbling. Only to have a limb break in a tree, fall to the ground and send the longbeard jogging to no man's land.
On the next to the last day I was hunting with my wife and he did his signature one and only one gobble around 11:30 a.m. Several hunderd yards later we were in the area and would not gobble to anything and we had no clue where he was. Bumped him 60 yards away in a small draw.
This bird was driving me crazy this spring. One day he would be roosted high on his ridge, next day low. Then he would change it up on you and then sometimes go middle. He was flip flopping more then a politican on an election year. Not to go political on the board but I did give him the initals of a certain politican J.K.
He likes to flip flop and also made a Joke of me. J.K. seemed to fit him