RE: Fall Turkey Hunting??????
I call in the fall and call loud and often ("lost yelping" and/or key-keying). I hear more turkeys calling in the fall than the spring. My fall turkey season (VA) usually lasts just the first morning I am out there. I used to try to bust the birds, but learned that if you know where they feed or roost, just set up in a comfortable spot and call them in. I've had as many as 25 birds in family flocks come running in to my position, looking for the "lost" bird - pick and choose, just make sure you don't take out the brood hen. One note: when you are dealing with a flock of adult gobblers, do everything in your power to break them up (or amwhack them). I've had adult gobs yelp, cluck and gobble at me, but until you break them up, their calls are generally just a courtesy invite for you to come and join them. Once in a rare while, they'll come in out of social curiosity to gobbler clucks or yelps without having been busted up, but don't count on it...
-fsh