I have done this a few times with sucsess. Who else does it?
I have done it before and had success.seems to work best for me later in the morning though.
NO! I do not use a gobble call but then I hunt primarily public land.
I've tried it a few times with no success. I have more luck smacking my hat againest my leg, they seem to come in fast and looking for another bird.
Have had it work a few times later in the morning. Would never try it on public land.
It's worked a couple of times for me. I only hunt public land.
Saw it work once on a bird hung up about 250 yards away. Wouldn't leave that small ridge, gobbled at us as he strutted back and forth. It was early season youth hunt so woods were wide open still so moving wasn't an option.
Hit him with a couple gobbles and a few minutes later there he was. Kid didn't get the shot but it was an effective technique for that particular situation.
I have a box call that sounds really good as a gobble call.
Has a slot cut underneath where a rubber band can fit around the box into the groove and allows you to shake it.
I have Primos gobble shaker and shaking the box call sounds better
I had rather use a jake yelp than a gobble. If that dont work I will try a fighting pur.
I had one old public land gobbler that marched straight away from my hen yelps. I did another set of yelps, waited about 10 seconds and then did a loud Spit 'n' Drum with my mouth. That turned him and he stomped right back up to me, mad as could be. I never got a clear shot at him, but it showed me that calling a boss gobbler with a gobbler call could be very effective.
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Never tried it but a couple years ago I had a bird coming in on a string to about 80 yards. He was at full strut until another bird gobbled about 300 yards into the timber and he dropped his fan and took off running towards the other bird. So i think with a boss gobbler it could be very effective.
I called a hung up gobbler in for a friend using a box call to gobble with. Messed with him for over 3 hrs before he would finally come those last few yards. It was a late season bird hunting in some thick cover. At times it was the only way to keep him fired up.
I've tried for the last two years to gobble effectively with my mouth call in practice and just cant quite get to where id use it in the woods, shaker style sound even worse. Im thinking long are hard about taking the dive on Haint gobble call. Our PA and NY season run really late and by the end of the season the birds dont respond overly well to traditional calling, often I will see several gobblers hang out away from hens and strut but not gobble much.
my current late season tactic has been lots of afternoon glassing and pinning down the roost tree and sliding extremely close to the roost the next morning and trying to get right where they want to fly down.
I have done it with mixed success. I have better luck gobbling at the Rios I hunt here in OK and up in KS than I did with the easterns in MO when I lived there. I voice gobble, though and is sounds much more Rio-like than the deep, throaty eastern.
This guy came in to a gobble last year. We'd thrown the kitchen sink at him and was about to give up. Luckily we didn't.
I have used it before in that situation, and its only worked one time.
I have used it with mixed success before, but I do a lot better by making jake/gobbler calls.
some really goos advice on this site.. has anyone read the article in the new issue t&th mag. on ray eye. where he talks about calling in as many or more birds with gobbler calls as he does with hen talk. it is a good read ..
I've tryed it several times with a shaker gobble call (as a last resort ) but it hasn't worked yet for me.
Brings them in a runnin ! :turkey2:
THE MOST IMPORTANT----- consideration about doing this is SAFETY! In my family some distant kinfolk , went hunting together a few years ago and , yes the unthinkable happened, because of this . PLEASE use caution.
I have killed one and missed one thanks to a gobble shaker. It don't always work but when it does they will come in mean walking/running!!
i hunt public land im afraid to gobble
Never had an ounce of luck with a gobbler shaker.
Quote from: gob09 on February 01, 2012, 07:04:47 AM
some really goos advice on this site.. has anyone read the article in the new issue t&th mag. on ray eye. where he talks about calling in as many or more birds with gobbler calls as he does with hen talk. it is a good read ..
Excellent article. I'm trying to memorize the info!
I gobble at em all the time and not necessarily when they're hung up. How many times have you been working a bird that's gobbling his fool head off and had a satellite gobbler or gobbler's get fired up. I kind of look at it like rattling or grunting in the deer woods. I don't know if it's jealousy, territorial or curiosity that makes a gobble call work. I just know they work. Now I grew up in the days when our main call was a Lynch World Champion box call and they came with rubber bands and eye hooks in the lid so we could gobble with them and that's what we did. A cackle was also the mating call of the wild turkey. I guess I'm still living in the past because I still gobble and I'll even let out a nice long cackle once in a while. :gobble:
I always gobble at birds with hens, seems to entice the hens into coming your way than just hen yelps!
I have good luck with it!
Some times it works to stop calling & let him wonder!!
In certain situations, yes, I will try to make something happen by throwing him a gobble. If the conditions are right (calm, little to no winds, and he's within earshot), I would rather give him the wing. I'll do a series of wing flaps trying to sound like multiple birds all stretching their wings. If you watch a flock of birds from a distance, you'll notice that flapping/stretching their wings is like yawning to us: its addictive! This, along with a little scratching, can be the ticket to get him to come over that last ridge!
Quote from: zach20065 on February 16, 2012, 04:17:57 PM
Quote from: DK Allen on February 16, 2012, 02:59:41 PM
Some times it works to stop calling & let him wonder!!
Ive had to do this on several birds, it just tears them up!! i had 4 birds a couple years ago up in a corner of a big ridge field on the point above me just gobbling their brains out and just staying put. I finally just quit calling and they were up there just double and triple gobbling, they got really fired up that i had stopped. Finally after about 15 minutes of that they couldnt stand it and they came walking right down the point right to me at 15 yards and i killed one of the 4. It was awesome.
Going silent on a turkey is a lethal tactic that will rarely hurt your chances of success.
I go silent on all of them. It gives them the opportunity to make a decision: go find the hen or leave and head the other way. If they break, which they often do, you get to shoot them in the face. If they leave, it gives you the opportunity to reposition to the area they are showing (by moving there) to be more desirable, which will substantially increase your chances of being successful.
I have used a gobble call successfully on a few occassions. I hunt private land so I do not need to worry about other hunters. I also used fighting purrs with good success too on birds that were just out of range.
I've tried aggressive purring and had it work with some success but never gobbling..mainly because I havent found a reliable way to make a gobble without butchering it.
I've always wondered, and maybe I'm not alone, if some of those hung up birds are subordinate birds in the area and are hanging up because of pecking order and not wanting to cross into another dominant bird's area. I'm probably overthinking that but birds do have a pecking order and I dont think it's farfetched to have a home range or area of dominance like a lot of other animals. If that is the case, I wonder if the gobbling wouldnt do just as much harm as good since the "hang-up line in the sand" is caused by the bird NOT wanting to get into a fight and keeping his distance. Of course the flip side is that some of those birds are probably with hens and just dont feel the need to move so the gobble hits the right button for some of the dominant ones and they want to come in for a fight.
I think turkey have a very simple set of rules to live by and it's anyone's guess (although some folks guess' are more educated than others :bike2:) which one they are abiding by at a given time but IMO, its just a turkey doing what he does.