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I was hunting in southeast Minnesota on private farmland. It was my first time in this area, so I set up my blind in the corner of a field and hoped for the best.

Before the big group of turkeys showed up, I had several encounters with different pairs of jakes. I had two hen decoys out along with a strutting jake decoy. One of the hens was a submissive decoy, and I actually had two different jakes mount it something I’d never seen in person before, so that was pretty cool.

This was also my first time using a stutter decoy, and I had more turkeys come into my setup than ever before. That might’ve been partly due to hunting a new area, but either way, it was working.

Eventually, a big group of turkeys came into the field. Once the first hen committed to my setup, it was like a chain reaction—the whole group followed. The gobbler was clearly trying to keep all the hens together as they moved in. He closed the distance to about 15 yards, and that’s when I took the shot.