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How to Get a tom that always out smarts you?

VolDoug said:
The best way is to wait until later in the season, and hunt him later in the day when his hens are nesting.

Or, early you can try to call his hens. If one of them answers one of your calls or is just calling in general, cut her off with the same kind of call she is making. When she calls again, do it again. Each time, do it a little louder and a little longer. Hopefully, this will tick her off and she will want to come to the hen (you) and whip her tail!

Sounds like a season wrecker to me. Good luck!
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good advice VD.
 
My advice is to put your calls away and bushwack him. Turkeys are patternable to a certain extent. You need to be set up along their travel route and waite for them.

This does take a certain amount of skill and patience. Make sure you are well hid b/c you will have several hens leading the way and could get picked off before the longbeard comes in range.

Once thing I do is cut several "crawling" lanes around fields that I know turkeys frequent. Sometimes you just have to kill em' like an Indian!
 
Roost him, then you have two choices:1)Let them fly up then scatter them of the roost in the pm and try and notice which way he goes...Hopefully it will be in a different direction than his hens. Go set up on him the next morning with some soft yelps and leaf scratching. 2) Watch to where he flys up from and goes to roost. Get in before daylight the next morning and QUIETLY get between those two locations. Many times he will flydown in gun range. I like #1 early in the season and #2 late but they will both work either time.
 

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