<P>I went out Monday, I was hunting the edge of an open field. I called in a nice mature tom. 21 lbs., with an 8 3/4" beard. I shot it at 20 yards, after it had strutted for a while around my decoys. I went back out Wednesday and sat up in the same spot, this time I had my video camera mounted to my shotgun, (just under the barrel). I had two jakes fly out of a near by tree and land out about 35 yards in front of me. I hit the record button and followed them for a while. After about two minutes, when one of them gave me a good shot, Wham! While the one I shot was flopping, the other one came over and spurred the heck out of it. it finally figured out that something was wrong and walked away. when I checked the video, I found that I had captured it all. It was too cool. I don't normally shoot jakes, but sense it was on tape I figured what the heck. </P>
<P>Yep Matt. Jake is immature adolescent male and a Tom is a mature older male. Jake will be usually a 1-2 year old bird with around 5 inch and shorter beards, immature tail feathers uneven in height and weighing anywhere from usually 10 to 15 pounds. Where a Tom has the nice even height on the tail feathers and has spurs, bigger beard and weight is generally from 17 pounds and up. Generally speaking. I shot a 17 pound on Friday and I consider it a jake as did the guys at November Bait and Tackle on RT 43 in Portage County.</P>
