It was a good morning!

[Grayfox]

Headed out early this morning to try a couple spots. 20 degrees this morning and a little frost, light wind from the .

1st set: I called on low volume for 5 minutes and the spot just didn't feel right so I shut it down and moved on. I'll try it another time.

2nd set: I set up on the North side of a thick patch of woods on a East/West trail. I started the caller and started to slowly ramp the volume up then shut it off. I could hear him running in, then stop. I turned it on with low volume and I could hear him moving from left to right in front of me about . I hit the light and there he was. I tried to lip squeek him to a stop but he kept coming. I shot and dropped him in his tracks. This one is a giant male. One of the biggest ones I've taken over the years. I switched over to Federal Prarie Storm #4 shot today and it really broke him down. Literally. I'll have to try to take them when they're farther out from now on.

3rd set: I'm standing next to a big oak tree facing South with a creek on my right and a fairly thick clearcut to the SE and a thicker patch of hardwoods to the North of me. I start out with baby rabbit this time and ramp the volume to 1/2 way then shut it off. I could hear some thing to the North of me and thought I heard one to the South coming up along the creek. The next thing I hear is the one to the North start barking at me. The thing wouldn't stop. He would move back East and West but I couldn't see him. I figured what the heck and turned on the distress and immediately heard the one to the South charging in. I hit him as soon as I could and rolled him at about 30 steps. Another nice male.

Here they are together. I drove around a while and checked out some spots for this weekend. I figured that I'd had a decent night and wanted to wait for tonight when Mitchell can come out with me before I did anymore calling. We'll keep you posted.

[Dave S]

You're off to a great start. The one on the left is huge. WOW!!!!