BritChaser
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Our morning set up in Graham County did not yield a shot. We wanted the two toms out of range but they busied themselves chasing away other males rather than wooing our decoys. I was solo after lunch and saw three or four toms with just two hens at another field. I snuck through the trees to get closer, set the decoys, and started calling. A single tom broke off from the group, gobbled once very close, then emerged from the trees. Unit 1 tag filled. Nine inch beard.
Later in the day I set up in my cousin's alfalfa field along the Republican River in Republic County. Two toms came out at the south end of the field over half mile away; they would look but not come in. A single tom in the trees to the west began gobbling to my calls, came out and strutted, but went back into the trees. Meanwhile another tom came out from along the creek about 500 yards away, fed for awhile and then began slowly working his way toward me. While waiting for him I heard something to the west and there was the strutting tom who had gone back into the trees closing on my decoys and within range. He strutted up to the jake decoy and got chest to chest with it in a very angry, hissing, mood, but stationary. Second tag filled. Ten inch beard. Great day of hunting.
Later in the day I set up in my cousin's alfalfa field along the Republican River in Republic County. Two toms came out at the south end of the field over half mile away; they would look but not come in. A single tom in the trees to the west began gobbling to my calls, came out and strutted, but went back into the trees. Meanwhile another tom came out from along the creek about 500 yards away, fed for awhile and then began slowly working his way toward me. While waiting for him I heard something to the west and there was the strutting tom who had gone back into the trees closing on my decoys and within range. He strutted up to the jake decoy and got chest to chest with it in a very angry, hissing, mood, but stationary. Second tag filled. Ten inch beard. Great day of hunting.
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