Well all in all it was a great spring in the Iowa turkey woods.
It started out Thursday evening locating birds. My hunting partner and I found a great flock of birds with 5 toms. After putting them to bed, back to the camper we went with high hopes for in the morning. Let me tell you it was a sleepless night. 4 am couldnt come fast enough, We were ready rock.
We got into the blind around 5 am and waited for that first thunder of a tom gobbling. Let me tell you they did, wow made the hair on the back of my neck stand up, kinda like when you see the Pope an Young buck coming at you while you Have that Mathews in the tree.
After the birds came off of roost everything went silent, I mean silent you coulda heard a frog fart. We sat pationetly for an hour with some calling done by me and nothing.
We thought what coulda went wrong, not even a hen would answer. Anouther hour went by and its now 7:30 im thinking we need to gat on the move and make something happen.
I told Jim I will hit the slate one more time, if nothing answers we need to find some birds. So I made the slate talk ever so pretty and I about fell outa my chair. The toms blew up about 10 yards behind my blind.
I was trying to calm my self for the shot as they were moving out into the field. Let me tell you it wasnt easy, anyone who has ever hunted or fished with me knows how excited I get. I mean im a ball of fire after its what is about. This big boy I got come into 20 yards. An the rest was history. He weighed 25lbs, 10 1/2 inch beard and 1 1/4 spurs. Again scouting ahead a time payed off 
Great bird buddy! 
