Use a different call during the hunt than you used scouting.
Ray Eye wrote in one of his books that turkeys dont get call shy they get people shy. If you call one in and he sees you and corelates getting spooked with the calling he may be harder to call to that spot with the same call again. I think we tend to give too much credit to an animal that has the brain the size of a peanut. I know that turkeys in the wild respond to each others calling and when they get there the bird is not there so the argument that them coming to a call and not seeing the hen will educate them does not hold water in my opinion. Shoot you see it in videos all the time a guy calls in more than one gobbler shoots a bird and if the hunters dont move the other gobblers will come over to kick but on there fallen buddy,its only when the hunters get up that the turkeys run off. All that said I normally only use locators during the off season but thats because I dont want any other scouters to hear the gobbler. If I can get him to gobble sporadically I can locate him then move off to try to find another one without getting him fired up and letting every body else in the area know where hes at.
How do you guide on a non-transferable permit?
Pretty simple when instead of my killin him he will shoot him as he will be the guest hunter.
We were no where near where last called so that bird I do know for one thing did not see either of us. We have to remember we are dealing with a bird with a lil brain. They walk around all day long scared of there own shadow and when they even think something is or maybe wrong they will rather run and survive and than stay and die.
We heard over 30 birds that morning and I am confident that by 8 am a bird will be flopping and I will have a video of it.
