Question for the guys with patience.

[Paulmyr]

He talks about it in his podcast with Jay scott outdoors episode 675 part 2. He talks about in the 1st few mins of the podcast. He also talks about In a podcast with the southern outdoorsman episode 225 somewhere in the middle of the podcast. These are just small snippets from what he has gleaned from his research.

[Paulmyr]

Here's a link to one of the studies on hunting  and influences on male wild turkeys. Not sure if the actual data that supports Dr chamberlain premise that turkeys return to where a hunter was at or not. You'll have to read it and find out.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313900008_Influences_of_hunting_on_movements_of_male_wild_turkeys_during_spring

[Howie g]

Maybe I am a weird one but the whole obsession with turkey hunting isn't as cut and dry as simply killing one. My obsession is getting one to play the game I want to play and then killing him. Therefore I ain't gonna set around bored and unhappy just for an end result. I would rather spend a day doing what I want to do and not kill a turkey then spend a day doing what I don't want to do and kill a turkey. Therefore my patience has its limits and I am good with it.

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I feel the same way . The older I get the more I feel stronger about " how " I collect one .
     

[High plains drifter]

It takes a lot of patience to sit for hours. I think they will eventually show up. One time I had one show up from a mile away. It took him 2 hours. I was ready to leave,  and decided on one last yelp.l jumped out of my boots when he gobbled at 20 yards!

[albrubacker]

April 14th my daughter and I sat in a blind for 6 hrs and never heard a peep. We can only hunt until 1pm. Check the time stamp. He would have been 40 yrds from the blind.

[GobbleNut]

Maybe I am a weird one but the whole obsession with turkey hunting isn't as cut and dry as simply killing one. My obsession is getting one to play the game I want to play and then killing him. Therefore I ain't gonna set around bored and unhappy just for an end result. I would rather spend a day doing what I want to do and not kill a turkey then spend a day doing what I don't want to do and kill a turkey. Therefore my patience has its limits and I am good with it.

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I feel the same way . The older I get the more I feel stronger about " how " I collect one .

Yup....This ^^   ....On the other hand, there have been those rare times when I searched for that willing gobbler for a few days after which I said to myself,..."Hmmm, maybe I should have just deer hunted for a feathered deer"... 

[btomlin]

I was on some birds during our 2nd season opener that gobbled good but wouldn't come to the call.  I tried soft calling, aggressive calling, multiple hens, and silence over 1 1/2 hrs.  I finally decided that maybe they just didn't feel comfortable where I was.  So I repositioned in another direction from them and checked them with a crow call.  Yep, I should have been patient.  They sounded like they were probably within a few feet of the tree I had been leaned against.  LOL, they beat me!  I did learn that a 75 yard section of old fence had likely been the issue.  I had to step about 2' over it.  Turkeys being turkeys...