Best trick for bringing in hung up birds

move location, if he stays put, move again, circle that sucker! He wants to go somewhere!

When they are hened up early in the season, fighting purs will bring them in. It's a bit like rattling for deer. You are simulating a fight. I've had a hung up tom lead his hens in looking for this fight after not budging for over an hour.
Get quiet. He'll be curious if the hen is still there and might come.
If it is safe, make hen talk, then cut it off with a gobble tube. He thinks she already has company and will have to cut in.
Be patient. As the season wears on, the hens will go sit on their nest. Mid morning will find the tom looking for company.
Use a slate that you can get real soft with.

There are no tricks.

Are you strictly using a box call?

For starters I'd use a mouth call, if for no other reason than cutting down on movement.

In other words, use the box call to locate and get him interested, then mouth call once he's closer

I called one up for my brother-in-law this weekend that was over 100 yards away in a field. There were 3-4 of them gobbling on the roost but we couldn't get that close to them because they were across a field, but they did answer me a few times. Once they flew down and came into the field they were with several hens and jakes. I started mimicking the hens, and one of them got pissed and tried to come find me. She dragged the whole group over and my BIL blasted his first gobbler.

There's no single answer, you gotta know why he is hung up. Often times they'll fly down into a strut zone and strut until their normal girls come to them. You gotta either hope none go or you call the hens in when they do.

If they should be seeing a hen and don't, put out a hen and jake decoy or a strutter. I don't like single hens when they can see long way simple because I've had them strut and hang up waiting on the hen to close the gap. I do like single hens when visibility is limited though.

As said, I call hard until they come and then you want to shut up unless you have a jake or strutter decoy out they'll see. If they don't come in after some soft calling or shutting up for 30 minutes, then I switch it up and call hard. I've killed plenty of birds by doing what others would call over calling, and I've had tons of hens come in calling way more than I would. But usually when you call hard that means you are going to them. Many times too overcalling happens when there is a landscape hold up like a creek. So I'll sit on a creek and act like a hen stuck on the other side sometimes too.

Your best bet is to probably just shut up. In the natural world, the hens come to the gobbler. So when he hangs up, he's waiting for you (the hen) to come to him.

Try calling a couple times to let him know where you are, then give him the silent treatment. He'll usually get frustrated or curious and come in looking to see where you are

Every turkey is killable but not every turkey can be called in.

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Purr more than anything when they get close... an not much of that

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I called one in this morning before work, and when I could hear him close in the woods this post was actually going through my head. I could hear him drumming and scratching around, but I was so fixated on him coming from my right that he had been standing to my left strutting for probably a minute or two I would guess before I looked left and saw him. I was about to pick my call up and purr again when I looked over and saw him, I would have felt like a jackass had I scared him off when he was so close

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