RE: calling
Mauser...Do you bass fish???
If so, this might make sense...Some days the dang fish want a plastic lizard or worm just crawled along the bottom, sometimes they will clobber a fast moving buzz bait...It's all about their attitude...
I have called toms in with just a couple of yelps and scratching in the leaves and I've had toms hang up at 80 yards no matter what I did...In this case, I usually back off and wait until another day or hunt more in the middle of the day or evening...
Turkeys are unpredictable, that's what makes it so special when we do finally connect...
I will say this, as I get older it seems that once that tom answeres me and he seems to be coming my way, I shut up...I think too much calling makes him suspicious...I can hear my neighbors cranking down on their box calls and it's almost comical...