Strut zones are a good bet as well. If you find a silent gobbler strutting at a certain time of the day, come back the next day and get there ahead of him. If the first time you saw the beast, yelped at him, then he proceeded to ignore you or go the other way, learn a lesson. Good advice bears repeating get there before he does the next day. Find The Boss And Hunt Him Down Situations where a dominant bird has the rest of the resident toms scared silly makes for some tough hunting.
Birds often gobble from the roost and then go silent when they hit the ground.
The best solution to this problem is the most difficult to accomplish Kill the dominant gobbler. Often, the rest of the gang will crank up soon after, as they try to reestablish their pecking order. It all starts by singling out the dominant bird and hunting him until you kill him. Sometimes it will wreck a season, but it can be done. On more than one occasion, I ve roosted a dominant gobbler with his hens and scattered them the night before I planned to hunt.