Did you call to him at all while he was on the roost? Had one once that was whooping my butt. If you touched a call while he was in a tree, he would automatically head in the opposite direction. Day that I finally killed him, all I did was beat my hat against my leg and then scratch in the leaves. Heard him pitch out of the tree and he walked up to within 30 yards. As others have said, you can get too close. I prefer 150-200 yds if I can control the set-up.
The only reason I killed that stubborn bird was because I remembered something my Uncle told me years ago. I was always running mouth calls, slates and boxes, cutting, purring, yelping when we were at the camp and my favorite uncle RIP, a man that killed more turkeys than I could count, pulled me aside one day and told me that "all you have to do, if you really want to kill turkey's consistently is cluck every 10 min or so, and scratch leaves. If he answers you or gobbles at anything you do, he knows you're there. Be a good woodsman and be where you think he wants to go and know what is between you and him (creeks or other obstacles that might change his path). Be patient, camp out and wait and most times he will eventually come looking for you. Then you put the little bead on his head and carry him back to the camp. It's just that simple." Only call he ever carried with him was a well worn lynch's foolproof and to the best of my knowledge all he ever did was use it to cluck with. He was a great woodsman, the most patient man I ever hunted with, and he killed turkeys by the truckload.
All of that is good advice. But, hard to follow. It is just so much fun to use all these calls.
