My 2012 Gobbler

This old tom was a hard catch, but a fun one. I hunted hard for two weekends in a row in michigan. We saw plenty of birds along the road sides, but just not very many on our property due to how green this year was. We hunted hard this year no doubt. I was sitting in the back of the property not seeing a darn thing. I decided to pack up and head to a blind towards the front of the property. That's when my dad called from the same blind saying a bird is in a small field less than 100 yards from him. So i finally got him to give in to let me make a move on this bird. I slowly made my way to a creek 50 yards shy of the field where i dropped everything but my camera gun diaphragm and homemade jake decoy (aka JBUBB). I crawled into the field about 20 yards where the bird had seemed to disappear from. I started to call when he hammered back about 300 yards down the field and in the neighbors woods. I got the camera on, and the show began. He strutted and gobbled 200 yards all the way to 14 yards where i dropped him all on film - the kill shot because i left my tripod at the creek. It was one of my most prized memories i will ever have in the hunting woods. The following weekends, I took my brother to the same spot trying for a big puff ball. We came close several times, but something always went wrong, from coyotes chasing birds off, too birds having amazing eye sight. This season had a lot of good times and footage packed into it.