i do like blood creek...give em enough to let them know your there...if i get an occassional gobble back ill call a little more often. if i am not getting any response ill make a few series every 30-45 minutes. once in a while i will come through an area with scratchings and just blindly setup...ill call every 30 minutes or so...trying to catch the attention of any passer by..

if the birds are hammering hard i already got his attention...thats time to get the gun/bow ready and shut up because hes most likely coming..

one thing i noticed...if he was hammering and all the sudden falls silent you better get that bow ready...he IS coming. any bird that shuts down for no reason is most likely sneaking in on you. (unless you been busted...)

alot of guys call WAY too much IMO. ill admit..i love to run the calls..and love to make them gobble...but you can definently over do it. you never hear a hen sit in one spot and yelp her head off all day. neither should you.

when i am trying to fire a bird up and make him come ill cutt and yelp hard and loud and get his attention...after that its silence for a while...but other times hes gobbling and not coming...ill just cluck, scratch leaves, and yelp a series every 30 minutes or so...just enough to let him know im in the area and keep his attention...but not over do it...

lots of different hunts call for different tactics...sometimes it dont matter what you do...that bird is going to come in on a string(the hunts we all like) others they like soft calls, others like agressive etc...i just try to figure out what he is responding best to and go with it for a while..

and another thing...if you can hear the hens calling try to pi$$ her off..mock her, get aggressive, fire her up. ive only gotten to do it one time...most times the hens dont really say much..but that morning was THE most exciting hunt of my life i think. i fired her up on the roost...she was roosting with a BIG BIG dominate tom..she hit the ground infront of me screaming her head of. i really thought i might be shooting a hen in self defense..but all the while the gobbler was going absolutely bonkers(he thought he was getting a two-fer! lol) they came within 10-15yds of me...i never seen them, but heard them both...could hear him spitting and drumming and his fan clicking...just on the other side of a oak sapling thicket[:@] but man was she ever pi$$ed...it broke light too early that morning and they were sounding off...i had to setup behind that little thicket..i was actually in his strutting zone and had a clear lane but they went right not left....