I was able to break out of work late Thursday afternoon for a weekend down near Cuero on my lease. This might be my last year down there as the owner may be doing something different next year. I have going down there for about 5 years now and it will sure be missed if that happens. I got down to Cuero with the idea that I was going to go out to the lease and pattern my new turkey choke on the SBE, but I got in about 8 PM or so and i was just worn out from the previous weeks of working some long hard hours. Got a good nights sleep and at 5:30 the next morning I literally jumped out of bed and got dressed. Got out to the lease and it was still pitch dark at just after 6. Walked to a good spot and set up. Heard the gobblers coming off the roost and was smiling. I called and had three different groups coming in and just couldn't get them to commit that last 30 or 40 yards. I threw every thing at them. I had bought the Cass Creek caller and tried that - it sounded good to me, but evidently didn't sound good to 2 of the 3 groups of gobblers that were approaching me. Had three does come to about 20 yards of me before they smelled me and hauled tail. I had a single gobbler come in without the call but got spooked by my brand new hen decoy.... It was that Featherflex Cindy Crawford hen lookalike........ That is about the third time in four years where the gobbler was decoy shy and walked away from them. Man did I cuss over that one. (Has anyone else had a similar problem?) I was about to throw the Cass Creek caller and the Cindy Crawford hen decoy in the stock tank at that point. Walked and set up at my honey hole - the hog trap. Called a big old fat hen up to within 7 or 8 yards of me. Man, I just love to get close to the animals, whether I shoot them or not. She finally saw me and flew off about 120 yards or so down the pasture behind me and then started feeding like nothing had happened. I was watching her when all of a sudded a fairly young gobbler ( older than a jake, but not much) came out of the woods and started courting her. She wouldn't give him the time of day but he stayed there and started feeding as well. I hit my Lynch 101 box call two or three times and he didn't even look up. I said what the heck and tried that Cass Creek caller. His head jerked up and looked down my way and started walking toward me. He hesitated one time at about 80 yards and I hit it again. He was on a mission at this point. When he was RIGHT BESIDE me (7 or 8 yards) he went into full strut and gobbled. He only saw me when I raised my gun up. Man can Gobblers move quickly when they want to..... I dropped him at about 20 yards or so. Had a friend and his 14 year old nephew come hunt with me on Saturday. Close but no cigar on about three occasions. I let the nephew hunt with my SBE all day and gave him the gobbler fan I had harvested the day before. Helping a new hunter start off right and get interested in turkey hunting is much more important than having one more fan on my wall. Got home Saturday evening and went to bed early. The ranch owner called me at 9 AM this morning. Seems that there were FIVE gobblers in his back yard this morning with NINE hens. Said each of the gobblers had foot long beards. Said he could have shot them with a pellet rifle they were so close. Sounds like they are still henned up down there. Still too early to really get a good hunt on, so I'll be going back in a week or so..........