Betty Beretta and a Wyoming Gobbler Story

[WyoHunter]

After coming in silent on Monday and not presenting a shot I was determined to bag this elusive gobbler. So here's how it went on Friday.
I left Friday morning at 4:00 AM in my quest for this WY gobbler. I decided to go in a new way to my hunt area in hopes the road would be passable. Let's just say I made it but I won't be going that way again. The mud was terrible and I wasn't sure I was going to make it but I did. When you reach 70 years old it's not exciting like it once was! After parking my truck I made my way down to the creek bottom where I heard a gobble. I located a small flock feeding in a sage flat but they wouldn't answer my calls so I decided to go to the area where the "silent" bird from Monday was located.
It was 9:10 AM when I set out a decoy and started calling. I used two different box calls and a diaphragm call about every five minutes. At 9:25 AM I heard a far off  gobble and then he gobbled again. This went on for a while. He was located across a steep draw and I wasn't sure he would go down it and up the other side to me. Eventually it sounded like he was coming closer so I got ready and waited. A little time went by with no more gobbling. I was seated under a Ponderosa pine with low hanging branches. I happened to glance to my left and he was standing along the fence and looking at the decoy. Then he started to walk away and I tried to get on him but the low branches were in the way. Drats! Now only  his neck and head were visible and I had no shot because of the branches. This was playing out like it did on Monday! He walked behind a cedar tree and I scooted up to get a shot when he came out from behind the cedar tree. Only his head and neck were visible but Betty Beretta and Hevi-13 7's did the job. It was now 10:00 AM and I felt really good to outsmart the bird that out smarted me on Monday.
It was a great hunt and for the first time in years I primarily used  a mouth diaphragm call to call this bird in.    

[bigdoc]

WTG  That is a beautiful bird, and good story.

[WiLL B]

Congrats!!

[captin_hook]

 

[Rokhal07]

Congrats!

[tomstopper]

Awesome. Congrats.

[DirtNap647]

 

[boomer]

Congrats!!

[Gooserbat]

Good Job!

[darn2ten]

Congrats!

[surehuntsalot]

congrats

[COssman14]

Congrats


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[TRKYHTR]

Pretty bird. Congrats,

Joe

[hookedspur]

nice bird.

[Spring Creek Calls]

Way to go, he's a beautiful bird!