The birds seem to be henned up. Anyone use fighting purs to try to bring in birds?
When all else fails it often works
I do. I also use gobbler yelps and cutting. Toms can actually get really pumped up and cutt quite a bit. Combined with the aggressive purrs you can definitely make them break off and come in really ticked off.
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I've killed LOTS of birds using fighting purrs. Always my "Ace-in-the-hole" when everything else fails.
Never forget the first time I tried it. I was calling for a friend who had asked me along to try a kill a big bird that was giving him fits. Threw all my best stuff at him and he put on a helluva show, but stayed just out of gun range.
When I started smokin' my slate and purring on my mouth call as hard as I could my buddy thought I'd lost my mind... but it turned out that 25#, double bearded stud was the one that lost HIS, when a load of #5's went thru his noggin'!! :OGturkeyhead:
Most of the time if they're responding, they have a hard time resisting it!
It's worked for me in the past. One of my best birds came in following about 12 hens in the middle of a big bean field after I tried everything in the book. The fighting purr made them look like they were on a chain coming in.
It has worked for me as well but it one of my last resorts besides gobbling.
I got my 2nd- NY TOM last year with fighting purrs! He was 20 yards away- but behind a boulder. I had to step out and shoot. He moves just 1 step when he saw me.
Sorry to piggy back off your thread, but what scenarios do you guys generally use the fighting purrs? Like when you have a bird hung up? Cold calling? Right after fly down? After you have used every other call with no response? Thanks
I use the fighting purrs when the thunder chicken is hung up.
Thank you for starting this topic. A great deal of my enjoyment in hunting turkeys is in being successful using different strategies. Even though I've successfully hunted turkeys for 25 years, I've never tried fighting purrs since gobbling works so well. I just spent the last couple of hours getting a cram course via YouTube learning the fine points of this method of attracting gobblers. Between my mouth call and slate, I think I can pull it off, especially with a jake hovering over a hen in the breeding position for the visual effect. I'll be trying it Thursday morning which starts my next and last Illinois season for this spring. Again, thanks for bringing up the subject!! (I'm also working on mastering the tube call as well as the wing bone yelper and finding both a challenge.)
I've never tried it either. Going to hammer them tom. With it hopefully. Cane creek calls has a video of him placing a pot call between his knees and running a striker in each hand. I can't get my left hand going. Lol.
I prefer to do them on a mouth call and mix in some box.
I like to use them when they are flocked up a bit, a group of toms are a lot more bold than a single lone gobbler.
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Quote from: codym on April 19, 2016, 03:44:17 PM
Sorry to piggy back off your thread, but what scenarios do you guys generally use the fighting purrs? Like when you have a bird hung up? Cold calling? Right after fly down? After you have used every other call with no response? Thanks
I'll use it at last resort, when a bird refuses to budge or is headed away w hens. You'll know pretty immediately if it's gonna work cause it makes me go nuts. You've never seen anything like it. May be my favorite tactic. But don't do it everywhere or all the time, if so it looses its effectiveness.
Worst year was prob about 10% effective, best was a lot higher
worked well for me this afternoon. I didn't kill a bird but.... I watched a tom refuse our decoys earlier in the afternoon and walk a hundred yards across the field. then 2 other toms came out on the other end with 4 jakes. all the birds refused our calls and decoys. the birds left the field to go to roost as it was getting late. so me and my buddy got on our slates and made the loudest fight noises possible, and we started flapping our hats and breaking limbs etc... every one of those birds came back in the field after deciding to go to roost to see what the commotion was. we even drew a few hens off their nest to come take a peak. They were still wary to commit all the way but it did bring them back in the field. It was almost dark when the birds came back out to see what the fight was about. Im defintly a believer in the fighting purrs now.
In 20 plus years of calling turkeys it has never once worked for me! But I still try it once in a while!
Does anybody make a fighting purrs call?? I know years ago somebody made a double push pin for fighting purrs. I see Knight & Hale are making a plastic one, but the reviews on it are pretty bad. Anybody else make one?
Quote from: Dtrkyman on April 21, 2016, 09:41:17 AM
In 20 plus years of calling turkeys it has never once worked for me! But I still try it once in a while!
It has never worked for me either... It has got some birds fired up, but not killed... From the manner in which it fires up birds but does not bring them in, I feel like I am missing an important step in the process...
Use one push pin and a mouth call simultaneously. Just make a racket and it works giving the conditions are right like this hobby of ours. Good luck.
I kill at least , at a minimum one GOOD gobbler a year using a fighting purr , it's calling with " attitude "
....the key is to really lay into it hard , you have to call constantly for at least 10 minutes , I'll use two of my tuned push pin calls , and a cutter diaphragm , I'll cut simultaneously as I'm doing the purr , and rotate the calls side to side this makes it sound like turkeys running around . Also when the gobblers gobble back at it , do not let up , keep up at it until they run right in
It's very effective on multiple gobblers , if hear 2 or more gobblers sound out on a roost , I hit them with a fighting purr immediately
It's good on a dead situation where gobblers are simply not responding , I've killed gobblers at 630 am and I've killed them at 1 pm , it works all day long ....
It's not a call of last resort for me
Old Gobbler...Thanks for your input on the fighting spurs. I'd hoped to use my Knight and Hale set on my third and final tom this spring in Southern Illinois should I still be hunting up in the morning, but used only my gobble tube instead while they were gobbling from the roost and at 6:00 a.m. my season was over. Is this a technique that will work in the fall season as well as the spring?
Quote from: KYHeadhunter02 on April 20, 2016, 08:57:50 AM
I've never tried it either. Going to hammer them tom. With it hopefully. Cane creek calls has a video of him placing a pot call between his knees and running a striker in each hand. I can't get my left hand going. Lol.
I know what you mean! Kinda like brushing your teeth with the opposite hand...you can do it, but it might not be pretty! Having watched Doug do that on his video, I had to try it!! I think, with a little practice - it could be the deal. I hit record on my first attempt just to see what it sounded like - but having the phone 6 inches away didn't help ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jd_tqHu4PA
Quote from: Bowguy on April 18, 2016, 12:00:08 PM
When all else fails it often works
:agreed: I like using them especially when nothing else is working
Over the years I've used it on rare occasions and I've killed a few toms using it. One thing I've noticed is if they respond I usually kill them because it's like they throw caution to the wind.
I have used it with success for years. It's like everything else when it comes to turkeys, sometimes it works and most of the time it doesn't. I reserve it for the times when a bird hangs up or totally ignores my calls.
How do you do it with a mouth call?
Quote from: TRex18 on May 05, 2016, 11:10:38 AM
How do you do it with a mouth call?
Take a look at YouTube. There are several videos on there on how to imitate fighting purrs with a mouth call, often with the aid of a slate call to provide the second bird's involvement.
It dont work every time,but when it does he comes in looking to fight !