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<P style="MARGIN: 0px">Decided that since I am not hearing them in the morning I would go where they roost and let them come to me. (At least it sounded like a good idea.) So in the 85 degree heat I trudged 1/2 mile with Turkey Vest, Blind, Gun, Chair and all the accoutrements to set up in a 4 acres meadow surrounded by the timber on all sides.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">I put hen decoys out on 2 corners and a Jake decoy out behind me, (not cause I wanted a jake but I didn't bring another hen and I wanted some visibility on that side.) sat down, continued sweating like pig and sporadically called.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">After 20 minutes, the breeze picked up and I supressed a cartwheel thinking "it may actually drop below 110 in this blind"</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">I look up .....and there are 5 jakes looking at my hen decoy. Now they decide, hmm lets move on and I yelp a couple of times on a mouth call to get them to reconsider and give me time to get my gun which is somewhere in this blind with me. They circle around and look at my jake decoy as I try to gracefully push open the window with the barrell of the gun and get a bead on one. There are 2 bushes between me and the bird but I can see his head and thus decide, now is the time.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">I pull the trigger and all hell breaks loose and there in a heap is the bird, dropped like he was thrown out of a helicopter! Not a monster Missouri gobbler, but:</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">6.75 inch beard</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">18.3 pounds</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">huge breasts that will make killer turkey nuggets</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">living proof (so to speak) that birds can be killed in the evening...In Indiana that is!!!</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Good Luck to all for the remaining 4 days !!</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P>
