RE: you make the call(part two)
One could do several things.
If Tom is going away with his hens - cahnge tactics and see if you can get a hen to answer you! How to piss a hen off? If she answers you call back note for note and cadence to candence but do it slightly louder. When she stops you stop - she starts cut her off in mid-sentnece! Has worked for me.
Or if the hen doesn't asnwer and the Tom did know where this hen was. I would wait him out. - stay put.
Or if you have him patterned as others have send - do an end around run.
Those are your options. Each Tom is different....So you would need to amke the call!
JW