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Ok i have been wondering this for a while and i have my own thoughts on it but i want to hear yours. Lets say you are calling to a tom that you know is in the area and you are using a slate call( or any call for that matter) and you make a wrong strike onto the slate and it makes a loud squeak or squawk,due to it being wet, not sanded properly, or any other factor, how do you feel that affects the turkeys mentality? I know most turkeys would react different, but does anyone have any first hand knowledge of a turkeys reaction to this?
 
I seen it alot. If your still enough they will come into shooting range if your not well you might see them 5 miles from ya. lol

I have realized over the last few years that hens are not perfect with their sound. The only perfect calling is coming from a hunter.
 
Cuttin said exactly what I was thinking. Hens do not have perfect,clear notes on every yelp. As long as it is close, and has the right cadence, you'll be ok most of the time. However, there is always a turkey out there that will prove to be so cautious that it will blow the hunt.
 
man at one time it would bother me, however over the past 10 years i have heard some hens that sounded AWFUL! i mean bad enough you would think they were dying...now i just keep going with the plan i had in place.
 
Depends on how "bad" it actually was.

Whenever I do it, I try to follow up with a better or different one pretty quickly so hopefully he will forget it (you know, like she had to clear her throat or something :D ).
 
VolDoug said:
Depends on how "bad" it actually was.

Whenever I do it, I try to follow up with a better or different one pretty quickly so hopefully he will forget it (you know, like she had to clear her throat or something :D ).
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Lol voldoug, that's exactly what I do! I just try to change it up real quick to some nice sounding yelps and hope that he second guesses what he heard because the yelps after the squeak sounded so good to him
 
Blount County Hunter said:
VolDoug said:
Depends on how "bad" it actually was.

Whenever I do it, I try to follow up with a better or different one pretty quickly so hopefully he will forget it (you know, like she had to clear her throat or something :D ).
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Lol voldoug, that's exactly what I do! I just try to change it up real quick to some nice sounding yelps and hope that he second guesses what he heard because the yelps after the squeak sounded so good to him
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Keep in mind that in the turkey world the hens are SUPPOSE to go to the Longbeards-its the way I was taught, yes they can be called but thats why alot of birds hang up on ppl.
 
99% of the time they could care less, it's now how you say it, but what and when in other words.

If I make a bad sound I usually cover it up with another to drown it out.

Worry more about set ups, and less about calling = kill more turkeys.
 

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