I just finished the first two mornings of the 2003 Missouri Spring Season by failing miserably.
I have a blind right in the middle of Turkey City but have been calling my butt off and the old Gobblers are acting like I don' t even exist.
This morning a Gobbler and four Hens flew down off their roost right in front of me but out of gun range. I tried everything, even feeding clucks trying to lure the hens over to my decoy hoping they would bring Ole Tom who was completly ignoring me.
My question is, is their something I could have done to lure Ole Tom away from his current girlfriends?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Not likely, if there are three or four toms with hens you might get one to peel off but not just one. Forget about the toms and work the hens. Calling aggressively has worked well for me in these situations. I have found that the more racket I make seems to get one of the hens irritated and she will call back to you, then you got em. If you get a hen to answer you call right back to her exactly as she called to you, more often than not she will come over to check you out and the gobbler will follow. I hunt merriams in western SD and it seems to work on them and it also seemed to work well on easterns in KS.

I agree with mez, call to the hens. More importantly, listen to how the hens are calling and see if you can mimick them. The more you sound like them, the better your chances are of luring that tom away. Also, stir them up a bit, get them worked up, they will help you to get that old tom.

i agree with these fellas, if you can do anything when the old boy is henned up, it is call aggressively to the hens. If that doesn' t work, then move on and get on another tom.

I agree with these guys except leaving him for another. Maybe for awhil but if you don' t get on another one try the first one agian in the late morning, when you think the hen' s may have left him. Worked for me last Sunday to perfection.Good luck

Bubblhead these guys are offering great advice. The only thing I do different to really get that hen fired up is call exactly like her but put a note or two extra on the end. When you get in this pissin contest with the hen watch that Ol' Toms head crank back & forth like Stevie Wonder!

If all else fails i' d try setting up a hen in the breeding position with a jake mounting her.....good chance the Old Tom will get right pissed off that the jakes is ' doing' one on his ladies & will come a strutting right on over to teach that jake a lesson & BOOM..[]..he' s yours!!!!!!!!! Worked for me last year!!!!!!! [:-]Whoooooooooohooooooo only 2 more sleeps to go here in Ontario!!!!!!!! Brampton Mike[8D]



PS: Anybody heard how BOSSTOM is doing in the USofA?????