Oh, they ve apprenticed themselves to charlatans. They have all thought they were in some kind of metaphysical state of transcendental knowledge transfer, but in the end they have all come to the hard realization that they had been had by a turn of the century snake oil vendor. At best, they have come to realize they have been had by someone at best who possessed about the same moral order as a hair sprayed TV evangelist. A classic example of this is all the help they got from various tournament BASS pros that advised them on boats, motors, trailers and GPS laden fish finders. There is a lanyard with so many duck and goose calls that at the end of the day your neck hurts from the strain.
Turkey calls are worse.
There are more turkey calls manufactured by so called turkey talking GURUs that to carry them all you have to have wear specially designed and camouflaged, load bearing devices, complete with back support systems. I once came across a guy in the woods that had fallen over a rock and landed on his back. He couldn t get up because of all the turkey calls he was packing. Buzzards were circling when I found him he looked like a brain shot canvas-back duck, upside down in the decoys, with his feet paddling in the air. His diaphragm mouth call was stuck in his throat and he was making a terrible noise similar to the squealing fat girls make, early in the morning, in a donut shop.