Tip No. 1: A super trick to add to your list of Gobbler Tactics is the Fly Down Wingbeat Trick. Using a wing or a flydown cloth simulate the beating wings of a hen at fly down time when she comes out of her roost. Add a soft but firm cackle to this tactic and your morning may end before you know it!

Tip No 2: Birds that are hunted hard sometimes need a bit more coaxing to get them in for a shot. When hunting pressured birds use tactics such as scratching of leaves to simulate turkeys feeding. Soft clucks and purrs can work like magic with tough to call birds also. Mainly let your patience guide you with Pressurized Gobblers.......Eventually you'll but him up good!!!

FIELD CLINIC by Rick Vitch

For years I've been taking hunters to the woods in the hopes of
outsmarting a longbeard. Over these years two things seem to consistently
"crop" up to affect their success.

Tip No. 1: Number one is "over calling"! While
turkeys, by nature, are a vocal bird, a hunter must try to create the
illusion of a natural situation and that situation is not the crashing, never
ending, hammering of yelps, putts, and cuts that most hunters throw out while
turkey hunting.Try soft intermittent calling and let a tom's natural curiosity and
desire to breed work in your favor. If you hit a hot tom, then naturally you
may pick up the pace of your calling to match the tom's level of excitement.
Many times increasing the intensity of your calling will not be necessary!
Remember, do not fall into the trap of automatically hammering out calls
every two or three minutes just for the sake of calling.

Tip No 2: Number two is patience. When you're in the woods, relax. Take your
time. Turkey's have no clocks. They are in the woods every, all day! They
have patterns that they follow. Just because you don't get an immediate
response to your calling does not mean that birds do not hear you. Many
times birds will mark your location, go about their business, and slowly work
their way towards you before responding. (especially in heavily pressured
areas) Eventually most birds will investigate! It's a low key, low pressure
style of hunting that works more often than not. So slow down your hunting
and calling and you may actually speed up your success