I wish my calling was better and I dodnt need them to distract the birds. I cant do the mouth calls to save my life.
If you set up correctly you don't need to call when the bird is in sight. If a gobbler believes you are a hen, and you are in a place it will come to, and it has to come within gun range to see your position then calling more is little use. Moreover, when you are in such a situation your odds go up. They'll more often show up than you might expect. It may take a good long while, but it works.
Or you can play trigger man for the little Chinese gal who made the decoy that is actually responsible for the kill.
I'm not a great caller, neither. But I do kill turkeys. Well, I'm a better caller than LFC; particularly with trumpets. But then I use better trumpets than he makes. So, it's not really a fair comparison. If he ever got a truly accurate trumpet, and learned what turkeys actually sound like, he might do better.
