How very true, but I learned that lesson a few years ago when I had a tom nearly knock my hat off with his gobble, after I' d locator called with no response, set up anyway, and was just tree yelping and clucking probably an hour after sunrise.

I learned this year that turkeys in the rain would rather walk in the mud of a plowed field than the grass along the edge, so setups should be close to the plowed field edge.

I learned that hindsight is always 20-20.

I learned that you can get busted even if you sit 100 % totally, absolutely still, but with no facemask. (This happened when I was scouting/roosting for the next day--no gun, not calling. I had a tom walk to within six feet of me, putt once and fly. I could see he saw me, even though I was hugging a tree, sitting motionless, squinting, not breathing, had my camo jacket and pants on (but no mask) and was partially concealed by a fern.)

I learned that you might as well not hunt, unless you regard yourself as awfully lucky, if you don' t know your habitat.--Twice I had hot gobblers hung up because of fences I didn' t know were there. Had I known, I' d have relocated, instead, I called till they walked off--big mistake, came from not knowing the habitat.

I also encountered a " migration" of sorts in four consecutive days hunting the same big block of woods. Each day the birds moved farther south along the west edge of the block. Roosting farther south. I' d learn this in afternoon scouting.