I have pot calls I paid $10-12, made one from some scrap hardwood, glass and roofing slate many moons ago, also pots and others I paid a great deal more than $100. Depending on the day they all will work.
Like all hunting there is no magic potion or call that will bring every turkey every time, I have a box full of calls that have been retired or replaced. If this is the hunt you want go back to watching videos. Practice and being able to judge a bird's mood and how little or much calling they want, on any given day, is what you want to focus on. Educate them a time or two or better yet hunt them after someone else has and you will find out how difficult turkey hunting can be. Then again when the mood strikes they will run across 500yds of open field, at full strut, to come hammer a decoy. 20 years of chasing these birds I have seen some pretty difficult or easy birds depending on the day.
Brings back a memory of hunting the May 24 Monday, Quick afternoon hunt working 3 birds, across a field the farmer working ground had spooked, They were coming but slow, next thing I see them run for the decoys, placed 3 yds in front of me, what I didn't see was the other 4 mature toms coming up the field edge. Next thing I know I have 7 toms in the decoys, which were taking a thumping, Wheat is up about 12-18" couldn't see beards or spurs, which one is the biggest????. Me thinks shoot the one with the biggest snod. Once he separated a bit down goes a 22 lber and I got to watch his 6 buddies come back 4 times to stomp him.
That folks is what keeps me coming back.
