It sounded more to me like tips from a person that has no idea about turkey hunting, rather than a joke. A turkey is active from the time it drops to the ground shortly after daylight until it goes to roost shortly before dark. There should be no reason to be out in the woods to set up for the morning hunt until about 1/2 hour before it gets light and birds begin to wake up and gobble, so that 2AM comment was either a poor joke or a typo. Many birds are killed several hours after daylight and the reason is basically because of what JW stated. A gobbler will call the hens to him and will normally be with them for several hours after they drop from the roost. If you don't kill him before the hens get with him, it's hard to draw him away just like it is trying to draw a bull elk away from his cows during the rut. From the middle of the morning when the hens leave him to go nest throughout the rest of the day until legal quitting time is a great time to be out. I hate mornings, so I'll be out early for a day or two and then sleep in for a day or two and not go out until the middle of the morning and use the technique that archeryelk1 mentioned that he uses. Of all the birds I've killed I can only think of two that I killed within the first 1/2 hour after they flew down and it was because I had roosted them and got close enough that when they flew down the next morning I got them to come in for a shot before a hen got to them. Up here in MI we can hunt until about 1/2 hour before they go to roost in the evening and one of the biggest birds I've ever shot was at about 8PM as he was leaving a big field and heading for the woods where he roosted every night.