I usually try to roost one on Turkmas eve and wake him up in the morning.

I have not had much luck roosting birds around here. I have even gone back and stood in the exact same spot I heard nothing from the night before, and gottenma gobbler to sound off before dawn. I don't bother much anymore. I will spend more time locating roosting areas before season and counting on that knowledge to get me close.

its always nice to know where the birds might be in the morning we need to get any advantage possible scouting for roost sites before the season is very helpful if at all possible i am ot in the evenings listening for gobbling if they do not gobble listen for the birds flying up if you can locate them in the p.m. slip in early in the a.m. as close as possible your confidence will be much greater knowing you may have an opportunity

I've roosteda lot of birds, some by luck (saw them fly up but didn't know they were there beforehand), several by design (following or hunting a group of hens and a gobbler when they flew up), and several by the traditional method of listening and owling at fly-up. More times than now, with a few exceptions, I screwed up the next mornings hunt by getting too close or being busted by the hens. In my experience the hens nest apart from the gobbler. If you don't know exactly where the hens are one can easily spook them on the way in or by setting-up too close to them.

I agree it is good to know where the gobbler is by roosting him the night before, but I am no longer going out of my way to do it. I also think it is stupid to try and get one to gobble by blowing distress calls, elk bugles and other strange sounds. Why disturb the area with that?