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getting a bird to gobble

If they will not gobble on their own, I will hit the o'l Knight and Hale owl call,sometimes it'll get one to gobble at least once or twice even if he's tight lipped.
 
I try not to use anything. Just let nature do it's thing. If they're going to gobble on roost they will when a crow crows, a woodpecker sounds off, owl hoots, etc. Like captain said, there's a lot of people that locate call way too much around here too. I think the turkeys here have learned the difference in the sounds of our calls and the real thing because out here when a crow flies over at first light and sounds off the gobblers will hammer, but when I blow a crow call or owl hooter they won't make a peep. I have stopped using locators for the most part anyway. JMO
 
Owl and/or crow if they haven't responded on their own in a reasonable amount of time. You gotta know how to use them.

If there are real crows, geese, cows, donkeys, owls, trains, thunder, doves, dogs, roosters, sirens, loud trucks, etc., making a racket, then I do nothing unless I need to pinpoint a location :D !
 
captain hook said:
I never use locator calls, ever. I wait for the birds to gobble on their own, the majority of times they will and if it gets to be fly down time and I have yet to hear anything I ease to areas where I know they will be and try to elicit a response using hen calls.

Far too many folks abuse locator calls in this area, and it shuts birds up more then it makes them gobble. JMO.
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For years I used to only hunt public land,the freakin locator call craze got so bad it would turn my stomach to hear someone blow one,there would be a bird hammering away, we'd be working our way towards him to get set up and somebody would start wailing away with their brand new owl call or screamin at the bird with a crow call..bird would just shut-up,fly down and vanish....I sure don't miss public land.
 
Captain...I do not understand. Enlighten me! I mouth call like the Barred Owl. Get them going, and then wait for a gobbler to pop-off.
How can sounding like a barred owl spook turkey...unless you are right under them.

I have actually had more negativeity associated with people walking around the woods making hen yelps, and "educating" non-gobbling birds that walk within sight. But only the turkey sees the calling hunter, not the hunter seeing the bird.

Please explain...

I could understand this statement if the person was a terrible owl hooter.

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Rather not, even to the point of waiting on something else to do it for me (as someone mentioned). But at very last resort...cutting, crow, hawk scream and maybe even a coyote howler. Higher pitch, the better. When I reach the locator level...I am in the "ain't got nothing, ain't got nothing to lose" mode and most likely soon bound for the truck anyway.
 
102 said:
I could understand this statement if the person was a terrible owl hooter.

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I think that was the main issue with where we used to hunt,I don't think it was so much using the owl call,but the fact that it just didn't sound like an owl.
 
On private land a few weeks ago, there was a bird gobbling in a hollow. I was on the land I could hunt on one ridge, and there was a guy on the opposite ridge blowing his lungs out on a crow call.

The thing is that the bird was responding to him :rolleyes: ! Any "normal" turkey hunter would have made a move and started calling. Not this guy. Honestly for 20 minutes, I bet he blew that thing 200 times. Not sure what he was trying to do. The only "possible" explanation I could come up with was maybe he had a buddy who was trying to slip in and bushwhack it while he kept it gobbling.

Of course, it hushed after a bit.
 
Done the same thing with hens thinking it was somebody,thought gosh learn to use a freakin box call before you bring it to the woods,sounded terrible...then saw the hen.lol
 
Great responses guys. I chuckled at several of them. I too, have heard hens that sounded HORRIBLE and thought to myself, that guy is the worst caller I ever heard. Only to see a hen walk by a few minutes later.

Owls on the other hand, I RARELY mistake for a hunter, and visa-versa. And crow calls, WHEW!!! I don't think I have ever heard a caller who sounded even remotely real.

I understand now Captain, thanks for clearing that up.

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