I've read - birds aren't coming in

[wingtipsdown]

If the bird locks up and isn't committing. Less calling is needed from the beginning of your calling. If you know a bird is coming. Slow it up to hardly any calling at all. Once the smart Birds truely locate where the sound is coming from, they will stop and wait to see the hen.

The hens are suppose to go to the Toms - that is how Turkey Nature goes.

Very little calling will keep that Tom coming forward and looking for that hen.

Hope this helps a few of you.
Good Luck.....

[jeff-ward]

the best calling that i have found on tough pressured birds is contented sounds and scratching in the leaves.....
this method has brought many a gobbler in for me.....

[Duster]

It don"t hurt to get agressive in the right situtation. There has been times that nothing seem to work but if you can make a old boss hen mad enough to come looking for you and drags a old Tom along that wouldn't come in no matter how you called him.

[B.M. Barrelcooker]

my theory is do what the turkeys do... if they are being quiet then you better also.............................................. .......and curiosity has killed more gobblers than lots of aggressive contest routine callin.

[notimlmit]

Got to say I've tried soft and less and failed also aggressive and failed. I noticed several times hens would hear the tom and man they would turn it up. They started cutting like a bunch of young kids getting all excited about something. They to would all eventually go to the tom. None of the toms I witnessed would comit all the way, not even to real hens. The toms would come within 60-70 yards of any type of call and if the caller, whether it be me or hens didn't show up to him soon he would leave out.