Next time you harvest a gobbler, when cleaning him, cut both of his wings off at the last knuckle. Use these to make the most realistic fly downs by flapping the two wings together.

Persistence pays off, especially with turkey hunting. All of us love to call in gobblers off the limb. But all too often hunters have to deal with henned up birds. The trick to scoring on these birds is to stay in the area. More often than not the hens will leave the gobblers by mid-morning. You need to use this to your advantage to call up this longbeard who has lost all of his girlfriends. When you strike one up late in the morning it will often be your easiest hunt. Also most of the time the other hunters are out of the woods, so this can really pay off on Public Land. Good luck.

There are times when you may encounter a Tom may seem reluctant to answer your pleading calls. Some hunters will often use the excuse that the gobblers are just not ready forgetting about that small fortune of miscellaneous calls they purchased prior to the season and seasons past. Today's young hunters have become more aggressive and almost seem to use nothing but the elite mouth calls trying to emulate the proffessional turkey callers with the raspy yelps and fast cuting. I for one love these raspy calls and have the up most respect for these people. But it almost seems that the wary longbeard has heard so many bad mouth callers he has caught onto this game. This seems to really hold true if this is a public land bird. So the hunter may need to try several of his box calls, slate call and pushbutton calls to find something this bird hasn't been coaxed with before. Also don't forget about the old fashioned wingbone call. The tip here is to try something different.