I have never hunted during the afternoons, however I do often return to the truck to drop off the gun, and go back out to do a lot of scouting during this time. When I see birds in the afternoon, I often see them using the feeding areas during afternoons. If they aren't pressured, I find them near the fields, when they are pressured, I look for browse food in cover that they may be eating. In my opinion, it should be MUCH easier to kill birds in unfamiliar terrain during the mornings then in the afternoons........you need to really have them patterned in the afternoons. If you know how the turkeys are moving, then simply setup between feeding and roosting areas much like you would hunt for a deer, or cover ground until you can spot them, and attempt to cut them off while they are headed to a certain destination. I would also refrain from much calling other than clucks and purrs. I don't think I have ever heard a hen cutting or yelping aggressively in the afternoons.

The one spot I see birds regularly in afternoons is on the top of a certain ridge that follows a hollow up the side of a mountian I hunt. They walk up the same ridge at around 12noon every day when under pressure to get to the pines at the top of this mountain. It is a hell of a hike toget up there, but the ridge is only about 30 yards across and it would be very easy I assume to put a decoy on top of it and sit in the afternoon waiting for them to go up to roost.