Practicing calling is always good, but you don't need to be a champion caller to call in a turkey. Most of my birds died by simple yelps and sometimes clucks. You can practice and sound like the hottest hen in the woods, but it won't do you much good if you don't have a good setup on a responsive gobbler. Pay attention to your surroundings and the birds themselves every time you're in the woods, and think strategically when picking a spot to set up on a bird. But don't overthink it! Trying to solve turkey hunting like a complex equation doesn't work so great, it it's pretty simple, but takes getting a feel for.
And don't quit early in the day because the woods are quiet. If you have the time to hunt, then keep hunting, maybe take a nap if you're bored, but something's gonna fire up at some point and you'll be able to call one in.
Back to the calling...If you want to get your call rhythms and cadence sounding good, just search YouTube for videos of hen turkeys yelping. Not someone demonstrating with a call, look for actual turkey footage. Notice there's a difference between short series of yelps, long series/assembly calls, and loud yelping with aggressive cutting when a hen is pissed off at another hen. Those aggressive calls can sometimes work for trying to pull hens to you when a gobbler is henned up. But when you're trying to call in a lone gobbler, short series of regular old yelps can kill most of your birds. And remember to quit calling once he has fired back at you a couple times.
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