I'd say over 50 percent of the birds I have killed were during the morning fly down right of the roost. Try not to over call, just do soft tree yelps so you don't get "TurkeysaurusRex" all fired up to a point every hen in the section is shaking it under his tree as soon as good light hits.
I will normally stay with a soft tree yelp until a boss hen fires up and he starts responding to her. If so, fire up and mimic every thing she does. You have got to really turn it on for him and this may mean running a mouth call and a slate at the same time, following it with a box call. I try to really light it up like there is no gobbler with a small group of hens in a certain tree or small area. This will only work if you can do it right and the gobbler's are hen heavy.
Try to use some patience before resorting to this, but I will assure you it will work. Maybe not everytime, but a good amount of the time.
I also have good like from 10-1 p.m., this is when a lot of people go for a snack and leave the woods wide open. The hens are going to their nest and the "Boss" is on the move. I do not overcall here unless he fires up, the biggest bird I called was 3 years ago in Missouri. I fired him up cutting on a box call. He was about 150 yards away and he came in running with a hen in the front. She came to the fence and was looking for me and putting up a storm. I had a 20 yard shot at him in full strut. He went down like a sack of bricks. He weighed 28 lbs, 1 1/4 in spurs and 2 10" beards. A year earlier, I killed a bird in the same area that had 1 5/8 spurs.
That bird came in with 3 other gobblers right off of the roost and they looked for me from an open field into the timber. I didn't have a clear shot and they left and went to the top of the hill and started gobbling. I started cutting extremely hard, frequently, and raspy with a MAD Shippwreck call and he came in silent and alone. And, on the way out......he had a partner to walk out with.
Remember: "There is nothing prettier than watching a wild turkey, other than watching their 'Coppertone' body being pulled out of a hot pot of peanut oil"
[This message has been edited by full-strut (edited 02-25-2002).]