If you've hunted turkeys much, you've probably spooked a tom or two. So what's everyone's strategy thereafter??

For me, if it is a "soft" spook, where the tom probably saw movement and then just"eased away", as opposed to a full out "flight from danger", I'll stop, sit and wait a bit, then call. If it is a busted with alarm putts and flight, I'll watch the bird's direction and try to relocate to the next "best area" that tom might be at, in a circuitous approach that'll take some time. If its a "spooked for reasons unknown" after working the bird, like maybe it didn't like the decoy setup, but I don't know why it didn't finish, I'll "return in an hour" depending on time of day--an early bird MIGHT return at mid-morning, for example--and try the same approximate location but with a different setup. If I spook a whole flock, in the woods, I'll move to get ahead of them, if I can, if I sppok them from a field, I'll go inside the woods and see what I can do--always on the other side of their general direction/"flight path".

I can remember spooking a field flock in Kansas a couple of years ago as I walked along a field road/field edge. Those birds were a quarter mile away out in the field, evidently saw me and scooted to the woods, just from seeing me walking along the edge that far away (and there was a treeline breaking up my silhouette). I went into the woods and in their direction, but got no calling. I left that area and hunted another area. Mid afternoon, I walked along that same field road (after scanning the field as much as I could, to be sure they weren't back in that field), and spooked them again--I saw them about the same time they evidently saw me. This time they were all the way at the other end of the field, over 1/2 mile away, and still scooted to the woods. You'd think I'd learn, but I guess I'm basically an idiot. I don't walk on that road anymore.

I read somewhere (in a Turkey Hunting magazine, I think) that not all spooked birds will be unhuntable for the rest of the day. I'm no Ray Eye, but I think he said (in that article) that he would SOMETIMES have success calling hard right on the spook, and I always think that, since I know where at least one turkey is, the one I spooked, I should work it. I know they don't have a tremendous memory, forget fear after they've run off a couple hundred yards, and spook at the craziest things (like a running deer),but not at other things (like grazing deer).

So, what do you guys do when you spook a turkey (besides kick yourself)?