Staygold
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If he's gobbling on the roost, do you call before he flies off? Or wait until he's on the ground to try to get him coming your way?
Time will teach you what to do, every senario may be different.
My favorite hunt goes like this.....I hear him gobble from the roost at dusk, so the next mornin I know where I want to go to talk with him. At daybreak I like to let the crows/nature make him start gobbling on his own. I may make some soft tree yelps. When he's interested in me...and it's light enough for me to shoot...I like to fly down cackle and flap my hat on the leaves. I hope that he thinks I'm down and I'm ready and I hope he wants to be the 1st one to me and get there as fast as he can gobbling on the way! That's my favorite senario but truth is it don't happen often.
When talking to a gobbling bird on the roost...number one most important thing to remember and play on is that he is gobbling to assemble. If he's answering your calls it's because he wants to assemble you. Maybe....the more you talk back....the more you're telling him your coming!
I like to think a bird on the morning roost that aint gobbling a whole lot is probably already surrounded by plenty of hens. I think the daybreak bird that's gobbling his head off at every sound in the woods is very lonely and is desperate to assemble some company.
Good luck man!!!!!!!!