Opening day

Good afternoon
Well, the big day came and went.... I remember getting up at 4:30 AM and jamming down a big bowl of fake rice crispy's, then to my surprise their was a knock at the door at 4:45 AM! My hunting partner was 15 minutes early!
Well thank goodness I had prepared the night before so all I had top do was spray down with bug spray and jump into my Camo! I love Camo, I love to say camo....
back to the story , we took off and traveled through the cool darkness to our pre determined hunting location. We knew exactly where we wanted to set up because we had hunted this farm the year before. I must mention that we had been fooled by two different Long Beards at this same location, so we were determined to not allow such a embarrassing thing to happen again!
We arrived before sunrise and walked through darkness to our site. We set up the decoys , my two feather lites and Bobby's "B Mobile" and real turkey feather hen decoy! ( by the way, she looks a little used, if you know what I mean!)
Then we waited ....the sun came up as we anticipated the hair raising on the neck sound of a male Tom Gobbling his location and intentions for all the rest of the woods to hear , and I might add take note of!
We then waited some more....and some more until after all of our sure fire methods of getting a Tom to gobble failed! We did not hear one single bird gobble on the roost! Well, we being the resourceful hunters that we are ....we did NOT take our decoys and go home. No ,we made all the excuses we could think of to help those poor non gobbling Tom turkeys out and then changed locations!
Then we changed locations again and again and by this time the winds had increased to what seems like ( to two guys Turkey hunting anyway) Hurricane force winds!
Once again we did not take our decoys and go home, we did what any self respecting opening day turkey hunter would do....we changes locations again to a well known " honey hole" of for those not up on turkey lingo , a heavenly populated turkey spot!
By this time the trees were laying over sideways and the time was 11:30AM!!
We proceeded to get out of the Rubicon jeep and do a circle through the hardwoods on the outskirts of a field with more of an scouting outcome in mind than actually calling up a Tom turkey
We had started calling as soon as we exited the jeep and we were just about to complete our short circle through the woods when all of a sudden a bird gobbled only 50 yards from us and he was coming fast!!! We had only time enough to sit down and call a couple of times when.... the bird showed himself way to the right of where we thought he was going to appear.
I heard a shot and like in slow motion a HUGE bird started rising vertically very slowly...I said to myself he is hit!! He continued to rising upward toward the tops of the hardwoods ... a big twenty plus pound Tom ,, so big it seemed as though he would never make it to the top of the tree canopy.
Well he did and the last I saw of him he was safely gliding away... a well educated and a better bird for it!
I am just happy that I could experience another great ." the one that got away story!"
My friend and I were a little sad, but in reality , our Heavenly Father made sure two friends had a day in the woods that neither will ever forget!
Thats all for now! as always I hope you have a wonderful Easter and Passover and everybody you know is" Just right!"