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| | Hello fellas. First time I have ever done a message board. Looking for lots of good responses. Now let's talk turkey! Scenario: Day break of the season opener and the brids are waken up. What is your first,favorite or "go to" turkey sound you make. I am talking about the first call of the morning you let out to see what's listening in the trees above(clucks, tree calls, yelps,etc). I understand tones, cadence along with different days and different techniques etc, but lets hear what you have to say from your neck of the woods. Lots of large gobblers here in southern Indiana and I am ready to throw something new at them. |
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| | In the typical "birds roosted nearby early morning set-up" situation I normally start extremely soft with whits and whines, as close as possible to the way a real hen does it as she's waking up... then progress into a few tree yelps. I use a flydown cackle... but not in every situation... I try to let that gobbler tell me what he likes or doesn't like... or take his temperature as Sadler has said. Sometimes I will "flydown" with just a wing... other times I will use the wing with a mouth call and do the whole scenario. In most cases I stay as soft with my calling as possible... remember once you've called loudly you can't take it back. Also... turkey's normally communicate very softly... only as loud as necessary. In my opinion the less calling you have to do the better off you usually are. It's all about realism with my calling... but whether I had success or failure in some way always goes back to the set-up. Just a few of my thoughts...
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| By the way... Welcome to Woodhaven!
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| "In my opinion the less calling you have to do the better off you usually are"- Turkenator I couldn’t agree more. My opinion tree calling is one of the hardest sounds to achieve in the turkey woods. I’ve had hunts where tree calling made the day and some where it blown it. I hunt northeast Alabama right in the heart of Woodhaven Country so you could imagine the pressure. These are some of the most stubborn lock jawed turkeys you’ll find anywhere gobblers as well as hens…they just don’t talk much. So when I do make some tree calls its generally soft clucks, two or three note yelps (almost never cackling), and to the point. (The Purr Pot is great for this!) I want him to hear me that’s it, an as soon as I feel like he has or he has acknowledged that he has I shut down hoping that his curiosity is sparked just enough to investigate. I may throw in a fly down (wing beat) but for the most part my next step is all patience and listening for him to pitch out. Once he’s on the ground and I have determined his heading the chess game begins and I’ll make my next move. To sum that all up I try to get out of tree calling when I can, simply because it’s just not too common around here. Always try to fit in/sound like the flock..it'll pay off.
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| I live in the northern part of ky there is some preasure but not a lot.I usualy wait till the bird is on the ground or just plain yelp at him when i think it is light enough.I have mixed thoughts on tree calling to a bird on the roost because were i hunt i dont think they do it a lot .Why i say this is i have axcidently been set up 30 yards from gobblers and hens on several different time and never hear them tree call.They just scare the crap out of me when they gobble the first time lol..Around here i hear them tree call more in the fall than i ever do in the spring
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| There are as many responses as there are hunters and with your scenario and where I start out I am almost the opposite. Let me set the stage a little, I am on the banks of the Suwannee river approximately 100 yards wide on private land and hopefully unmolested turkeys. The tom I will be after will be henned up on opening day and they will be roosted around him. Unless I get him roosted the night before I have to wait till he gobbles to keep from busting hens.
I hoot early and get as close as I can, these hens are very vocal until they get with the old boy on the ground so when I get set up I listen and take his temperature and then yelp pretty aggressively with exited yelps and hopefully just before he fly's down give him a cackle trying to get him coming my way before all the ladies show up. Plan b mock the most aggressive hen after she is on the ground trying to bring her and her buddies.
If this don't work plan c go to another turkey if that is an option and come back here at 9:00. If that is not an option I try to get ahead of the flock and try again.
However it works out if my scenario will fall anywhere near this I have had a good morning. Sometimes it does sometimes it don't and sometimes they are on the other side of the river.
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| I like to use a glass call that I came by a few years ago (brand name withheld for obvious purposes;  Reason I like it is you can take a graphite striker and stroke out some very soft yelps, purrs, etc. on it. Haven't found a mouth call I can tone down enough yet... and my other calls sometimes deal with the early-AM moisture deal. |
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