Scouting-saw something new for me.

[Tail Feathers]

Scouting this morning was great.  I saw a tom breeding a hen, something I'd never seen in real life before.  I couldn't get my camera out fast enough to get a pic.  I drove to the end of a road at a pipeline and there they were about 100 yards away.  He let her up and went back into strut, even with me parked 100 yards away in the open.
Overall, I saw four gobblers and about five hens, and heard another half dozen gobblers.  It was a good day to be in the woods!
Our season is late here, April 15.  I can hardly wait!!

[mgm1955]

Great sight. Good luck!!

[dejake]

Couldn't get the camera out quickly enough?  Glad I'm not the only one.

[TRG3]

A few years back I watched a tom breed hens in the middle of a grass field. They were around 200 yards away and for the first two mornings that I hunted them, they would be there at the first hint of light. He never gobbled on the roost, but did so infrequently from the middle of the field with his hens. He would not respond to a call, but left the field in the same direction daily. On the third day, I set up where he typically left the field only to have him and the accompanying hen disappear into the woods before getting to me. I anxiously waited for him to reappear but he didn't. I let out a soft yelp only to have him gobble about 30 yards behind me. He never came in, so I crawled up the slight incline and peek around a tree. There he was and in gun range. We saw each other about the same time, but I was just a tab bit quicker on the draw and tagged him. I even made it to church on time!

[RutnNStrutn]

Sounds like you're on them!! Hopefully we'll see your smiling face behind one sometime soon!

[101st501]

Looks like you are going to have a good season.