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putting them to bed ???

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Skully, I have a buddy that uses the coon squawler......I think they just gobble cause the call is obnoxious. Unreal response tho.

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Yhea, I got the idea one morning sitting in the dark when a couple of masked bandits went to hair rippin' behind my blind and sent the local rubber-necks into a gobbling frenzy! It has worked for me ever since. I was a little worried that the turkeys may fly far off the roost to avoid the critters but they didn't seem to worried about them.
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My one buddy does nothing but spot and stalk turkeys with a bow. I thought it was crazy until I tried it with him. Our first stalk of the day ended up with me sending an arrow through the tail fan of a strutter at 52 yards and he missed one out of that group as well. Our next stalk on three birds resulted in me ending up with a 20 yard chip shot and a great bird. After that we stalked 4 or 5 more and he missed everyone of them
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You can definitely kill one without a blind, but you need good cover!! Also the 3d leafy camo seems to work wonders on them as well. The last bit of advice is it is alot easier to kill a bird with no blind during 4th season when there is alot of foliage. A blind makes life simple though, but man is it fun to stalk a turkey from 300 yards away and make the final approach and kill shot on him.
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thanks for the info Liv4...I'd be curious as to "how long" you stalk and is it a belly crawl with calling or without calling?

In response to the other questions about locators...I wish they made a "thunder" call
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I've been out in a storm or two and there is NOTHING like thunder to make 'em gobble...heck, I think the hens even gobble to that!
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I have used a peacock call when the owl hoot and yote call have not worked.I think like the coon call it is high pitched and obnoxious.(sp)
 
get some distance away, where you know you wont spook birds and use owl, coyote, peacock or truck door calls and make some noise till they sound off,
on warm, calm evenings they will sound off till it is almost pitch dark.....
i have found for me in evenings the coyote howler works best, but occasinoally the hooter works good too.
its a great scouting tool and putting birdies to bed gives you a great starting point for the morning;.....
 
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How many times do you set up "just perfect" on a roosted bird only to have them fly down a couple ridges over and gobble their butt off going away from you?


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More then I care to admit
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I used to just listen for them in the morning but lately I've been doing more pre-season scouting and just watching where they fly to.

It varies of course but the generally fly to open fields right off the bat so they can be seen while strutting.

Around here over the years I've noticed that there are almost always some turkeys roosting in the same spots and having a tent blind set up where they are likely to fly down to comes in handy.

If only they would fly to the same field/ridge etc.... every morning
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What do you guys use besides the owl hoot,coyote or other calls to get them to sound off.



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a gobbler shaker tube works for me.

anybody got a pic of one of those coon squallers that they can post?
 
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What do you guys use besides the owl hoot,coyote or other calls to get them to sound off.



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a gobbler shaker tube works for me.

anybody got a pic of one of those coon squallers that they can post?

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Here's a couple examples teeroy: Coon Squaller

I got many a coon to "look" at me with one of those things back in my younger days....then squeezed the trigger on the ole 10-22 Ruger...and another $20 was mine.
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They'd sure make a gobbler soundoff I'm sure!
 
Finally got some birds worked up in my neck of the woods this evening. 4 toms all answered an owl hoot all 4 times I let loose. Was good to hear some gobbles in the evening and get a bead on where the boys are roosting.
 
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