I had to deal with silent toms last spring. Was finally able to get a nice pair of birds but only after 8 days of hunting. I got the 1st by runnin' and gunnin' , just walking and calling on an aluminum call looking for a response. The 2nd came by wearing out a lot of shoe leather and glassing w/ the binocs, the spot and stalk method. A guy has to be versatile sometimes to fill your tags under those conditions.