RE: Calling afternoon/evening birds?
I ended not even hunting during this past week, but instead called for a buddy on his first hunt. We were only able to hook up two evenings, Wedneday and Sunday. Each time it was 5:30 before we were out in the woods. Wednesday I had two toms all worked up and 40 yards away. My buddy didn't shoot. He was about 10 yards from me and could see their heads and necks, but having only seen turkey hunting on TV was looking for that "full strut in the open" shot. They bugged out after about 20 minutes. Sunday night I got a Jake to come in at 7:15 and after "clicking" on an empty chamber, my bud was able to chuck in a shell and make the shot just seconds before it started to downpour. I guess evening calling does work!