How to practice?

[Nsghunter]

I've spent four hours total in the turkey woods. I know almost nothing about calling and want to get better. Is there any way to practice? What do you recomend?

 

[Woodsman10]

Best advice I can give you is to get you a tape or cd of live turkeys calling and try to sound like them, and also practice with someone that knows what they are doing

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[Nsghunter]

Thanks

 

[Andy S.]

This link may help you out in your quest. https://www.midwestturkeycall.com/10-cds-instructional

 

[PalsPal]

Youtube videos of real hens are also a great resource, and there are a lot available. The main thing is to try to get the cadence down.

 

[Andy S.]

Youtube videos of real hens are also a great resource, and there are a lot available.

Yes indeed, forgot about those.

 

[deerhunter10]

You tube reading about turkeys and play with your calls get familiar with them.

 

[catman529]

Youtube videos of real hens are also a great resource, and there are a lot available. The main thing is to try to get the cadence down.

x2, this may be the easiest way to learn, just watch as many videos of turkeys as you can. Once you get that turkey sound in your head it's easy to imitate a hen yelping, clucking and cutting. Here's a video I took last spring of a hen I called in. You can hear my wingbone call and then the real hen yelping and cutting back at me. I'm not sure what her intentions were, but I think the loud clucks and yelps could mean she was dominant and was trying to tell off the other "hen". That's just my guess though.

http://youtu.be/OeNgAs9mgA4


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[TN Whitetail Freak]

come end of march ill drive around with a turkey call in my mouth practicing. Ill watch NWTF tukey competitions and just mimic

 

[Poleaxe]

Take someone with you the first few hunts so you can learn some. It ain't easy but it's fun.

 

[gobblinfool]

Nsghunter......and know this....you don't have to be the best caller, what sounds good to you might not trip a bird 100yds away.....and what doesn't sound good might just set that bird off. Some calls seem fool proof....my 8 year old daughter was in a ground blind with my box call, I was 100 yds away checking on something....she sounded just like a hen. For me the box and slate are about rhythm. If a hen yelps 6 times....I try to mimic her to bring her in. As one guy said, if your into mouth calls, then practice in the truck as your driving around.

 

[Boll Weevil]

Others have offered good advice above. I'll comment on how NOT to practice...realtime on your hunting property before the season comes in. As tempting as it may become over the next couple of weeks, resist the urge to strike up a conversation with the very birds you'll be hunting come April. If you booger a tom because he associates hen talk with a human (whether you know it or not) he can become that much more difficult to call to the gun.

Best of luck to you.

 

[Nsghunter]

Others have offered good advice above. I'll comment on how NOT to practice...realtime on your hunting property before the season comes in. As tempting as it may become over the next couple of weeks, resist the urge to strike up a conversation with the very birds you'll be hunting come April. If you booger a tom because he associates hen talk with a human (whether you know it or not) he can become that much more difficult to call to the gun.

Best of luck to you.

thanks for the input.
This is one thing I had already gathered from last season discussion.