I have had one of the toughest turkey seasons.
My son had the May 4th - 8th season and it took us until the last morning for him to get his. We had to hunt them like deer for him to get one. I patterned them behind the house and they came out in the morning so we just got in there early and sat in the blind and waited for them to come out and he got a 20 pound tom with a 8 inch beard.
I had the next season May 11th - 15th and it took me until Sat. to get mine and I hunted every spare minute of everyday. I got home around 4 o clock Sat. from hunting and at like 4:15 there were 3 toms in the back field. So I snuck along the creek all the way to the back corner where my blind is and by the time I got there they were not in the field anymore because it started raining kind of hard. So I snuck into my blind and waited and it started to get sunny out again and I knew they would come back out after the rain slowed down. I sat there for about 15 minutes and they came out, I picked the biggest one which ended up being a 21 pound bird with a 11 1/2" beard.
Both of our birds we got were with no calling at all. It seemed like the calling scared them or made them avoid us. It was a hard season to say the least.