This was the third time I had set up on this bird. Twice before he had hens and would move away from my calling. This time he was all alone and searching. I set up approximately 100 yards from his gobbling and called him right in. This last week could be the best week of all.
Persistence pays off.
Stay after them. I shot a nice Jake. That morning I hunted in an area where I knew some birds were roosting, and I was rewarded with hearing a bird gobble probably a hundred times. When it started getting light he started tearing the top out of the old pine he roosts in. He and a few other birds flew down about 45 minutes later, in the opposite direction.