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dblmainbeam

dblmainbeam

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I guess i need some lessons. I can get tom's to gobble but i cant seem to get them interested. Last year i called in to jakes but this year I'm not having any luck. Any pointers?
 
Persistance, practice, and patience. How much do you call? All the time or hardly at all? What calls are you using? What type of turkey sound/call do you generally make? Is your area heavily pressured?
 
The birds are pretty henned up now...the problem is more than likely his girlfriends and not your calling. Had luck in the late morning and early afternoon this weekend. About another week and they will be lookin for love. Call with confidence, I have heard some calls I swear were other hunters only to have the hen walk in to the decoys.
 
I mostly use a box call sometimes slate but that never sound good to me. I guess i try to copy the hens. I think maybe im calling to much. How often do you call when you start hearing the toms even when there roosted. Should I be tring to get there attention before the come off roost or wait until the fly down. when there within 100 yards do you call quiet or loud. Thanks
 
I always get their attention before they fly off the roost. I usually also use my hat and similate a fly down or to. In the early morning I call soft, mostly clucks and purrs and some yelps. As it gets closer to fly down or after, I usually pick up the tone a bit. I try to get a feel for the gobbler, whatever he likes, I will keep on doing. It seems like in afternoons or mid mornings, I calm down to mostly clucks and purrs with an occaisional yelp or two. while hunting public land, i usually stick to clucks and purrs also, seems like they get used to constant yelping. As far as how much I call, sometimes I call every few minutes, or other times I call every 15-20 minutes. It all depends on my mood, and what I feel the birds are doing at that time. I always use a slate call too. Some boxcalls I have used in the past seemed way to loud for me, good for locating but not so much for close encounters. I like to call soft to try to entice them in closer, opposed to calling really lound making them hang up easier.
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I totally agree with Limb here ... it seems the birds are pretty henned up at this point but things should get good in the coming weeks as the hens get on the nest ... hang in there and don't be afraid to call too much or too little - it all depends on the situation ... sometimes you just have to feel the bird out a little.
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You guys were right. I was hunting public land and stuck to using clucks and purrs. I had a tom come from a long ways off gobbling the whole way. I tried to sound pretty(got that from old bucks post thanks old buck). I decided not to use decoys I think that was a mistake. He got within about 35 yards but he wouldn't come any closer. I didn't get a shot but it was a real confidence builder. Thanks guys. Either I'm getting better at calling or the tom was getting desprate.
 
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