IL opener

[goatman]

Let's throw some heat at team Low Hanging Fruit and see if they can handle the pressure. Had a bird come by me about 7. Was just waiting for him to come around to the decoys. Nope off he went just a talking. Everything quit talking after 7:30. Just being lazy and enjoying the day I called about every 20 min. or so. Heard a soft gobble about 9:30 and saw the head headed my way. He hung up at 45 yds. but one stare at the jake decoy and he thought I can whip his butt. At 30 yds. he met a load of 6's. I got a hickory also. Double bonus. Heat and food for winter. Also I didn't notice till I got home that his center tail feathers lacked the black bars. He lost some of those when flopping.

 

[meyeri]

Nice work! Never seen that on the tail feathers before, pretty sweet!

 

[Ishi]

You are off to a great start! Congrats on the bird.

 

[Fishbonker]

Let's throw some heat at team Low Hanging Fruit and see if they can handle the pressure.

Heat shhmeat, here in Iowa we have sparrows bigger than that puny Illinois thing. Tweety Bird coulda kicked his butt.

Interesting tail feathers though. Much like goatman himself, just another Illinois oddity.

I just turned the burner to high.

Edit:

So I was sitting here snickering to myself when my wife asked what I was snickering at. I read her the above reply. She said "That's just mean". My wife has a big heart so I had to explain that "mean" would have been saying his goats are ugly and his dog won't hunt. She just gave me that look all married men have seen and learned to ignore, or in some cases, fear. I decided it would be best if I quit snickering.

 

[goatman]

Tell her its just turkey camp trash talk. She'll understand being your a Cub fan.

 

[Central Iowa]

Your on a roll congrats on the odd duck!

 

[Blaster]

Congrats!!!

 

[muddy]

Good job. He's probably still molting and growing through tail fan