I spent all 5 days trying like mad to score but failed to pull the trigger, however it was not a waist of time.
My brother and his buddy have second season permits which opened yesterday and after five days of learning I knew I could help them score. We got set up about 5:30 am and the woods were alive with gobblers.
I sat my brother to my left about 20 yards and the other guy to my right the same distance. I was hoping to be able to call the birds in to me, thus offering either one of them a shot.
After a suspensful morning of gobblers everywhere the woods went quite for at least 30 minutes. Then about 60 yards into the woods I spotted a flock of Toms (8 total) sneaking through the woods. I started the hen clucking and imediatly got a gobble response from all of them. 4 of the birds kept going away but 4 others came straight towards me.
As they got closer I probably didnt call more than twice until they popped out of the woods 10 feet in front of my brothers buddy. They were all clumped together so he couldnt shoot. I gave a hen cluck and they spread out and stuck their heads high and fan out.
BANG! - Doug, Scored his first bird on his first Turkey hunt!
Even though I got skunked, I am sure the 5 days of learning more about the sly bird contributed greatly to the succesfull morning.