Rather than scattering turkeys and recalling them, Eye takes advantage of the turkey's highly developed social structure to call in whole flocks of birds. The flock has a rigid pecking order, and each bird has its own secure place in their little turkey world. If you can get close to a flock and sound like a new turkey, they'll try to call you to them. In the fall, gobblers, jakes, and hens all gather in separate flocks. Same thing with jakes and hens.
Eye always begins a fall hunt at dawn, close to a roost.
They can't go on about their day until every bird finds its proper place. If the early morning hunt doesn't produce a turkey, Eye will walk and call, just like a spring hunter trying to strike a gobbler. Eye's basic fall locating call is a long series of plaintive yelps, a generic lost call. To make Eye's style of hunting work, you need to get close and call aggressively. Last October I followed Ray, scuttling half-crouched across a northeast Missouri pasture, as we tried to get around a flock of birds we'd spotted heading into a wooded draw.