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Message: <blockquote data-quote="retrieverman" data-source="post: 4250057" data-attributes="member: 24452">Blind hogs do find acorns… <img src="/images/smilies/thumb.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":thumb:" title="Thumb    :thumb:" data-shortname=":thumb:" />I gambled on where to set up this afternoon, and it paid off.  I was about 400 yards northwest at the opposite end of a grove of tree along the river from my camera where I’ve been seeing turkeys, because I know they hang out in those tree.  The wind was blowing pretty hard so I was up wind to hopefully get the sound to carry into the tree.  I called a few times and after a while got a glimpse of something moving in the shade about 50 yards away.  When he came out into the light, I could see it was a tom I’ve been watching that has something wrong with his beard (maybe beard rot), so I just sat still and watched him for about 30 minutes as he milled around my decoys (which I set up way too close).  All of a sudden I hear a gobble south of me, but I was afraid to call back because of getting busted.  Well, the other tom acted as my live decoy and coaxed this tom within 10 yards.  It was a bang and no flop.  The 1 1/4 oz #7.5 load dropped him like a hot rock even out of a modified choke.He has a 9 1/4” beard and 1” and 1 1/8” spurs.[ATTACH=full]471027[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]471040[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]471041[/ATTACH]</blockquote>