Calling sequence?

[tomstopper]

The worst calling I ever heard was from a real hen. She yelped straight for a minute or two. Then threw in some purrs. I am no where near as good as professional callers. But I kill turkeys.

So true.... Totally agree

[Bill Cooksey]

You've gotten a lot of good advice on working a bird, and it demonstrates my one rule of hunting; there is no "always" or "never" in hunting.

I'll offer a suggestion though. Whenever you see hens without a gobbler, try to work them. If they're quiet, whines, SOFT clucks and SOFT purrs are usually best. If they're loud and aggressive, usually your best bet is to perfectly mimic them, but even then I usually start with the soft stuff. When you get to the point you can call up hens on a fairly consistent basis, you'll get better at calling gobblers whether alone or in the company of hens.

Basically, use every opportunity possible to learn to call hens. Heck, every now and then a gobbler will show up to the party too.

[Cut N Run]

I never call to a roosted bird and always wait for him to fly down.  Why  have him stay on the limb waiting  for the hen to show up?


Don't move on a hung up gobbler 100 yards away unless you want to hear him PUTT! Turkeys seem to  know that they taste good and almost everything wants to eat them. Be patient, make quiet clucks, purrs, and some scratching to get his curiosity working against him.

These things have worked for me.

Jim

[trackerbucky]

turkaholic,

I've never heard of the wing on bark sound that you spoke of using. If you don't mind sharing, what is that and how do you make it?

Thanks in advance.

[Happy]

I have called to them on the roost and I have stayed silent. I just go with my gut feeling on the siuation. Around here 95% of the time a Tom has hens in earshot if not in view. It is easy to overcall but if I think I get him on the ground early before the hens get there I give it a shot.  I will give a few soft yelps, if I et a replay I will wait a few and give a flydown cackle. Then after a few minutes a little purring and leaf scrtaching. Never and I mean never will I move towards a Tom if I have called to him. If I move it will be angling away from in the direction I think he will want to travel. That seems to work best for me if I call to a Tom on the roost.

[TRG3]

After the gobbling starts, I'll answer with some soft tree yelps. At some point before he flies down, I'll return his gobbles with my Primos gobble tube, giving the impression that there's not only a new-to-him hen over there but also an intruder tom. While it doesn't always work, the frequency of the real gobbler coming over to check out the "new" situation, enhanced by a tom and hen decoy,  very often occurs as it did this morning resulting in a filled tag. If you want to know if something will work, try it. The worst that can happen is that it doesn't work and you've discovered yet another way to not bag a bird. Keep at this long enough and you'll learn lots of ways to hunt turkeys that don't work, but you'll also find a few that do which boosts your knowledge of the hunt which makes the whole thing enjoyable and worthwhile!