Took a buddy yesterday, first bird we set up on gobbled 200 times on the limb, then pitched off the mtn and sailed 300 yards down the dam thing. He literally buzzed the top of my head when he pitched down. He hit the ground gobbled 10 times, then completely vanished. Left him, struck another bird which hammered me back on my first call, then went totally silent, we slipped in a little closer and finally got a hen to cluck back with a little soft coaxing, her and 3 others slid to about 20 yards and got cranked up cutting and clucking loudly, me going to town right with them. The gobbler never let out another peep. The hens left and we saw the longbeard trailing behind 7-9 hens in full strut.
Left there and went to another place and got jerked around by two birds on separate knobs which gobble at you when you were on the opposite knob, but as soon as you closed they went silent, meanwhile the bird you just left cranked back up.
Finally threw our hands in the air and called it a day. Crazy dam turkeys.
