Video – Scouting Report 4/18/09

I only wished it was Monday!!  It was a great morning to be out!  I got lucky and ended standing within 70yrds of this bird waiting for something to Gobble.  I hooted and couldn’t believe one was so close! 

A good lesson from this morning was this.  Many times we’ll put a gobbler to roost for the next morning’s hunt.  This is not a bad tactic to give you an edge, but you must remember that it’s almost as important to know where the hens are.  This Tom repeatedly looked over his shoulder back behind him.  I didn’t pay much attention until he flew out across the road into the neighboring field.  (he was roosted not 50yrds of a old blacktop)  As you see in the video he gobbled quite a bit there until the hens came flying down to him.  If I was a betting man I would’ve bet 10 to 1 that he would’ve flew down the opposite direction, but of course I didn’t know he had hens waiting for him on the other side of the road.  Another interesting thing is that those hens never said a word, he just knew where they were roosted.  You can bet that come Monday I’m going to try to be somewhere between him and his beloved hens!

Enjoy the video let me know how you all do!