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Started by Bowguy, April 10, 2016, 07:36:02 AM
Quote from: Bowguy on April 10, 2016, 07:36:02 AMLast night I was talking to someone I mentor as I often do. I realized many new hunters make the same assumptions about calling. There's no magic to it, calling is simply enticing a bird to look for you. So, , they need to be around. Calling won't make birds just appear.,Best you know this beforehand n are set nearby. Doesn't matter if you roost em, set up on fields with dekes or run n gun some. They've gotta be around to hear you. Lots of posts I read talk about someone driving hundreds of miles to a place they havent seen in months, or a very small piece can't be visited til the day before. I understand work/life/family constraints but why wouldn't you want to know if the birds are even present before you invest a day of your life in the woods? Locate the birds preseason, if they arent on your piece find another. Don't over pressure the birds.
Quote from: Happy on April 10, 2016, 08:10:25 AMYou are correct. Scouting is huge for success. It is always best to have birds in earshot and to be calling from an area that they want to go anyways. Makes the job way easier. Especially when dealing with henned up Toms. Stay on top of them throughout the season because things shift and change due to pressure and the breeding cycle as well. In my mind calling and woodsmanship go hand in hand and you can never be to good at both.
Quote from: GobbleNut on April 10, 2016, 09:29:12 AMYou are so right, Bowguy. It is a very rare place where any of us hunts that gobblers do not gobble in the springtime. Learning to find them from their gobbling, before starting to hunt, is very often the simple key to success. The calling devices on the market today are so far advanced from those of just a few decades ago that even a beginning caller can take a turkey call and sound just like a real turkey with just a few minutes of practice. Not only that, but the internet and YouTube allow anybody to spend a little time listening to real turkeys, and turkey callers, and get a pretty good idea of how to call like a real turkey when hunting. While it is true that hunters need to gain experience in the woods to know when to make certain sounds,...and when not to make them,...much of the success that some folks place on superior calling ability is due only to being within earshot of a willing gobbler at the right time.
Quote from: Happy on April 10, 2016, 10:13:06 AMI guess I will respectfully disagree with some of what you said gobblenut. Yes on the right day a screeching wire on a fence post can call a gobbler in. However that doesn't happen everyday. Now I have seen good callers turn uninterested toms into interested toms and a flock that was previously silent into a vocal carnival. I have occasionally been lucky enough to do it myself. I think what you say on a call is more important that perfect replication but make no mistake a good caller will be more successful than a mediocre one. I have no doubt you have seen and killed more birds than I probably ever will but I will maintain that being both woodswise and skilled at calling is always going to pay off way more than just knowing there are birds in earshot.