I have nothing to hold out for. The Shhhhh was in reference to GB's comment.
Yesterday, there were no birds in the first spot. Went out to Moonstone and had gobblers all around us, but wouldn't come out of the hardwood.
Decided to take 3 hours off of work this morning and head back out there by myself.
Set up a Hen Decoy, and the birds started gobblin' around 0605 hours. I tried a few different calls and the one they responded to the most was my mouth call, that I had been practicing on for quite a while.
After about 10 minutes going back and forth, the group of them came up on my left about 20 yards...4 Jakes and 2 Hens...going right for my decoy....no Tom, but I was looking for a Jake to go up on the wall...so I picked the biggest bugger and took him out. Nice bird, weighed in at 18.2 pounds at Wolf's Den (needed a weigh to enter contest)
All 3 other jakes started kicking and jumping on my dead bird, made me laugh.
Here it is. Pressure is over, now I can relax and get my big bird later.