RE: henned up gobblers
sometimes it's best to go eat breakfast. When the hens are 'receptive', it can be damn near impossible to call the gobblers off, and hens can be hard to draw when they want some lovin' and big boy is putting on a show. Basically the only thing that works on dominant birds when they are henned up is to act like you're another gobbler ready to kick his butt and take his wenches. I like using a full strut decoy (and mounted gobblers work well also i've heard), fighting purrs, and gobble shakers. I have a bid dominant bird i will hunt in a day or so, and i may not even yelp, or not more than once. A hen decoy and strut decoy i hope will work, he's kicked my butt for 2 years (i'm pretty sure it's the same bird) as he will not come to calls.