3. Make Your Move
“Calling position is so important. I might move three, four or five times on a tom before I get to where I want to be,” admits three-time Grand National calling champion Paul Butski. The Butski’s Game Calls call maker says he’ll close the distance toward a tom to where he feels comfortable, quickly sit, get his gun ready and call again. If he can still improve his position, he will. “The biggest thing that messes up hunters is indecision,” Butski says. “Make up your mind, move, get your gun ready and don’t waste time getting all set up.”

4. Lay It On
Anyone who knows Missouri’s Ray Eye knows that he does not go quietly into the turkey woods. Just ask him about soft or sparse calling and his face wrinkles up in disgust. “I get so tired of hearing that,” Eye says.
“Let me tell you. When I first started turkey hunting, I read an article that told me to go into the woods, yelp a couple of times on my call and sit there ready for the turkey to come before calling again in twenty minutes. Guess what? I wasn’t killing any turkeys. They don’t read the same magazines we do.”
Eye says that the only way to call in a bird is, well, by calling. I’ve seen him run a call so long and loud that he called in toms from a quarter-mile away despite 30 mph gusts. “I want to get that bird into a frenzy,” he says. “It works more often than not.”