My experience overall is that the toms are far more wily than are the hens, and are always looking for any excuse at all to hang up...and man, the slightest misstep on a call, or a movement at the wrong time, even a tiny one...and they disappear as fast a blacktail buck.

That being said...I have also shot them in self-defense when they appeared to be charging me after running in at a call I had made. When they see red...they see red.

Fish on...

Todd