We didn't have much better luck that you did Iceman. We set up Sat under about 50 roosted birds, but when they flew down they landed in a private field we couldn't hunt. We managed to pull 2 toms in, but they hung up at about 35 yards in the trees and didn't like something so they left.
We tried a "turkey drive" later on that day. I left my boy with a buddy of mine, and worked my way down the river bottom towards them. It actually worked, and they had 3 toms come trotting up. Justin took a shot, but evidently shot right over it's head.
Next morning we hunted with one of my son's buddies from his baseball team. We had a jake coming straight into the dekes, but the kid we were with couldn't decide if he wanted to shoot a jake. Finally he decided to let my son take him, so I moved my head to tell Justin it was his bird, and I think the jake saw me move my head. He stopped (he was still about 40 yards out), stared for about a half minute, and hightailed it out of there.
Oh well... two weeks til the regular season...
