A friend took me to some public land a couple weeks ago .
I knew where it was but never hunted it and he has always deer hunted it but not turkey.
Any way as we were driving there he says . "Did you bring your calls?"
I said "huh?" He says "youre calls.. did you bring you calls so we can see if we can call one in?"
I said " No way am I gonna go out there and teach them birds what I sound like"
Back to the subject. I had a similar situation last year . I would set up and the gobbler would gobble 20 -100 times on the roost then fly straight away. Didnt matter how or even if I called . after a few days I moved to a different spot hopping to get in his zone.
he had been in the same tree for days untill this morning .
sure nuff at dawn he started hammering his head off.
I had set up to be in between him and his path . but he fooled me . because he had moved I still was on the wrong side.
He just flew away again. Check mate .. I hate him