We pulled in to the public at 2:00 am. Joseph picked me up at 5:40 and we went to a private farm. The boys knew the spot they wanted to try on public. None of us heard much. The boys had one inside of 100 on the roost and watched him jump down with 4 hens. He wasn’t even interested in the strutting decoy.
Joseph and I heard one a good ways off. He ended up responding to me only 5 times and maybe a dozen total gobbles. He was on the opposite side of a swamp with a hen following him. When he saw the decoys he puffed up and crossed a dry spot in the swamp….. Joseph had already picked that spot for that reason. He got inside 40 and I let it fly in the most wide open spot in the entire area.
Currently sitting with the boys in gusty winds hearing nothing.