ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer

Even though I'm asked to I'm not going to pretend to wade through half this thread.

There is a time and place for both agressive calling and subtle to no calling. I (we) call that taking a gobblers temperature. You can be silent and never get the bird to come, you can subtle call and he'll respond and strut and gobble his head off but not come one foot closer. In nature, hens are suppose to go to the gobbler. You can get aggressive and push a gobbler away. There is a time and place for all tactics and only the situation itself will dictate it. I've pounded a bird, fired him up and then shut up and we killed it. I've had bird killed by subtle then quiet only to get aggressive to have him run. Like Jeff mentioned in his thread opener, every bird is different and I'd bet I"m 50/50 on aggressive/subtle.

Jeff to answer your question, we'll be passive until I need to be aggressive.