first morning

[charlie cleveland]

today was our opening day of turkey season.. i was onna get up at 4 oclock but after waking up at 12-30 and again at 2-30 i decided just to stay up...boy what a long day its been...got into the woods at 6-00 was not daylight till 7-00..it was as still andpeacful as ive ever seen...it was very warm about 62 degrees and got up to 83*...what a good morning it was to be in the woodsonly thing wrong not a turkey made a peep...we switched stradgeys and went to a field in hopes of maybe luring one into our decoys...we tried this seup for about 2 hours with no luck...went and had a sandwich at the house grabbed the 4 wheeler and made abouta 1 hour ride looking for turkey sign ....my hunting partner showed back up had a young lad with him who had begged him into letting him go with us...hey i remember those days of not getting to go with the adults... so off for another spot to hunt we again put out our decoys andset for 3 hours with no luck...we gathered up our decoys and was headed to the truck and we did not like 50 ft getting to the truck when a gobbler cut loose not more than 100 yards from the truck..well we quitely and quickly came up with what seem like a fool proof plan...boy was this old gobbler hot he gobbled at every thing that made a noise.. several crows was harrasing the old gobbler so we figured it be a cinch to get close enough to get a shot..well after 1 hour ofthe most gobb;ing ive ever seen a turkey do andheart pounding excitement that old gobbler shut up as suddenly as he had started...i dont guess will ever know how he sliped out without one of us getting a shot...but we will remember this ole bird for a long time....gonna be saturday before i try him again.... charlie