RE: When to put a turkey to bed?
Where we hunted, the turkeys went to roost just as the sun was going below the horizon. It may fluctuate with weather or not it's cloudy or sunny to a degree.
Getting them to shock gobble with-in an hour after they roosted was pretty easy. We didn't try it any other time.
We've always used a coyote howler to shock them! The calls we use are horn howlers and they are loud!