I am sorry to hear about your luck Adirondack.. But getting out there and trying is all the fun of it to me. Scoring is just a bonus that completes a great day IMO. I never had hardly any gobbling once the season opened up here. There was 1 day that I heard some gobbles and I am guessing that they were jakes. Other than that I would get a gobble if I was luck early in the morning and then nothing else. Both of my birds I shot never gobbled once. The last one was mostly because of the wind and rain. The other one was already with hens and another tom. Other than that it may be predators keeping them quite or being call shy?? No idea actually why they were not very talkative though.