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work a bird start to finish with 1 call???

Started by adkmountainken, March 17, 2018, 02:14:35 PM

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Gooserbat

I figured if it's what gets them going it's what's going to kill them.
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One of my personal current interests is nest predators and how a majority of hunters, where legal bait to the extent of chumming coons.  However once they get the predators concentrated they don't control them.

Rzrbac

I rarely use anything but a mouth call. I do and have worked birds with a slate but still using a mouth call as well. I have no idea what the percentage is  but I would guess 90% of my birds are called in with a single mouth call.  I used to keep two calls in my mouth at once and switch back and forth but that was years ago and I had to spit my Copenhagen out to do that.

southern_leo

I take several. Whichever they respond to I run the rest of the time on that bird.

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Quote from: southern_leo on March 18, 2018, 01:00:07 AM
I take several. Whichever they respond to I run the rest of the time on that bird.

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This is exactly how I go about it to. Pot call 99% of the time. I don't like Mouth calls and only use one if I have to.


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GobbleNut

The real question to me is whether or not changing calls while working a bird is good, bad, or irrelevant.  From my own experiences, I believe you should stick with the call that the bird is responding to until he does something to indicate that he is not going to come all the way in to that call.
In my opinion, switching from a call that a gobbler is responding to and approaching to a different call doesn't really make a lot of sense,...and I doubt that there are many hunters that do that.

However, there are definitely times when a gobbler will respond enthusiastically to a certain call until he reaches a certain point in his approach, and then, all of a sudden, will balk at coming closer.  In those instances, changing to a different call might be the trigger that convinces him to come the rest of the way.  It's hard to say with gobblers that do that.  The fact is that you never can say for sure what is going to break a bird that has hung up.

Personally, totally switching calls on a bird that hangs up is a ways down my list of options.  The tactics that come before that for me are a combination of relocating my position (if feasible), more subtle calling (or in some cases, more aggressive calling), leaf raking, wing beating, and visual stimulus.  If all of that fails, I'll switch calls, but if it gets to that point, I rarely am confident that switching calls is going to be the trigger that brings him on in. 


perrytrails

Mouth call 99% of the time. I keep a pot call to use now then. Always finish with a mouth call.

Marc

Quote from: Gobble! on March 17, 2018, 03:40:41 PM
Most of the time the call that strikes them is the call that kills them.
I agree with this sentiment...

However, I always have a mouth call in...  That last hundred yards or so (depending on how open the country is), the birds have a far better chance of seeing movement on a friction call, and if I feel I need to call, I will use my mouth call instead.  Were I concealed in a blind, or behind an obstruction, I would prefer to stick with the call that started the process...
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LaLongbeard

I usually stick with whatever the gobbler first answers I feel that changing location is a better tactic than changing calls. I don't use a mouth diaphragm anymore but I can cluck  and purr well enough without one if I need to. After I get one coming my way I stop calling and get the gun up anyway.
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