Wow What a roller coaster my “A” season in MN and WI were. Filled with highs and lows close calls and near misses. After all my trail camera video I may have been a bit overconfident in filling my WI tag so I headed of to MN to hunt 1st.That and I was excited to chase some gobblers with Joel and JP. Wednesday morning found us set up in a great roost area but due to the weather the birds had not split up yet and were still across the highway. After a short walk we found what we thought was a Tom but turned out to be a pack of 10 Jakes all gobbling at the same time. Wednesday afternoon found us set up in a blind about 200 yards from 50+ birds including 12 Toms 7 that were strutting at the same time. We knew we had our work cut out for us. But kept calling almost nonstop for 2 hours finally pulling a Tom away from the group and to 40 yards where JP downed his second Tom of his short turkey hunting career 2 for 2 is a pretty good start. His Tom weighed 25.8 lbs had a 9 5/8 inch beard and 1 and 1 3/16 spurs. OK now time to fill my tag ! Thursday was a bust as we were covered up with Jakes again but I held out waiting for a Tom. Friday morning we got on some birds finally I get my chance and have a Tom come to 35 yards only to shoot and never ruffle a feather. Tip of the day = I made a rookie mistake I bought some different shells and didn’t pattern my gun turns out I couldn’t hit a pop bottle at 30 yards. I came back to WI to hunt the weekend and had numerous close calls only to get buggered by hens and an unlucky coyote that I took out some frustration on. The wind, rain. and sleet made this one of the toughest 5 day hunts I have ever had. When the 3 of us would hear a gobble and all point in different directions you know it’s bad. The whole time I was gone or in a different blind I had cameras on my set ups to see what I had been missing. Looks like I was pretty good at guessing wrong 
Thanks again Joel and Bob 
