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Locater Calls.
« on: February 13, 2009, 10:29:03 AM »
What are you guys using for locater calls?  I've got a HS Strut Hoot Tube.  I've found a couple of yelps on the slate near dusk works good, as well as in the morning for locating birds early.
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Re: Locater Calls.
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2009, 10:53:51 AM »
FOR LOCATING BIRD I LIKE TO USE A ELK BUGLE IF I NOT USING MY REED WITH YELPS OR PURRS
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Re: Locater Calls.
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2009, 10:54:45 AM »
I mainly use a crow call made by primos. I have never had any luck with a owl call yet.
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Re: Locater Calls.
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2009, 10:56:02 AM »
I got this large plastic coyote howler, about 18 inch long, big ole trumpet. Horrible howler for yotes but the best locater I ever used. I dont remember the name brand. loud as hell.
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Re: Locater Calls.
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2009, 11:02:24 AM »
Crow call & yotey howler are what I mostly use.  Killed one of my biggest gobblers here in WA when I spooked a couple of mallards off a pond and they flew over the tom quacking away.  :)  Might have to try one of those as well.
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Re: Locater Calls.
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2009, 01:19:57 PM »
I got this LOUD horn at WalMart for .75c all you do is blow through a little hole. :dunno:
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Re: Locater Calls.
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2009, 02:48:55 PM »
Guys, you will only be hurting yourself if your using turkey calls to locate birds.   Use a crow, peacock, owl, yote, or whatever but dont educate birds with turkey call please.
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Re: Locater Calls.
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2009, 03:09:14 PM »
yes i agree nwtf, i use my mouth to make a barred owl hoot, i also use a hawk scream, pilleated woodpecker, crow, coyote. during season if im runnin and gunnin in late morning some sharp cutting works well. yes guys please dont be callin birds before season u will only wise them up and really hurt your chances.
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Re: Locater Calls.
« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2009, 03:14:17 PM »
YEP I AGREE DO NOT USE TURKEY CALL BEFOR SEASON, AND I DON'T THINK COYOTE CALLS WORK, I THINK THEY SCARE THE BIRD.
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Re: Locater Calls.
« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2009, 03:19:46 PM »
Tell me if you have heard this before...I have worked birds all over Washington and this has happened more than a dozen times....

You park your car...hike in a ways...give a soft yelp and a tom gobbles back...you go and sit down by a tree and wait for a few minutes to make another call....tic tic..you are waiting ...then you hear something...a vehicle...RRR>>RRR>>RRR  IT stops....CAW CAW CAW....your bird gobbles.....You of course are going "Please don't gobble...A little while later...you see a hunter ssneaking through the woods...CAW CAW...then nothing CAW  bird gobbles...Now what to do?  Your screwed?  The other hunter doesn't see you. I have had to get up and let him see me..usually ruining both our hunts for my safety...Or I say "Hunter here"!...

I also don't know how many CROWS drive trucks up and down mountain roads ...there are a lot of them.  The Shock Gobble is a funny thing...I have used it to gain position on my quarry several times.  But there for ahwhile the only locators they sold at the local Walmart were Quaker boy Crow calls and every hunter had one.  These hunters knew how to blow it and make a tukey gobble but that was it!...Trust me when I say this...use it sparingly and just enough to get the turkey to give up his location so that you can slip in and show him the love!

Coyote Howls and Barks...are great use sparingly( Lets say he gobbles and you move closer and do blow it again)  If you are turkey what are you going to think?   I'll stay here and wait to say hi to Mr. Coyote!...Yeah right.

Elk bugles are great too.

Pileated Woodpeckers are my favorite due to the natural sound...

Owl hooting is my favorite...I use my mouth...doing the "who cooks for you ,Who cooks for you all" style.  

When Crow calling....Westside has more crows Eastiside has lots of Ravens...Add a growl while crowing its deeper sounding and more realistic.

Duck and Goose calls can work...


When all else fails and you know birds are around and/or your running and gunning....

I use box calls usually loud paddle calls to throw out the volume...especially in windy conditions...which we have a lot of in Eastern Washington in the Spring.

I have other secrets that I have been sworn to keep....maybe later.  One hint, Scuba mouth piece and a transmission oil funnel.. :)


Oh and Wacenturian has the silent doggy whistle story its funny...



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Re: Locater Calls.
« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2009, 03:31:36 PM »
u said it yelp the barred owl with the mouth is great u can make it sound very real. way more than those hooters they sell.
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Re: Locater Calls.
« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2009, 03:34:11 PM »
Yelp, that happens often for sure.  One thing I like to do is if I get bumped by another hunter and he is working a bird I have already found is to give him a soft crow call or a duck call as that will usually get his attention. Then with as little movement as possible let him know I was here first and that he should back out.  One good thing is that where we hunt, we dont get many other guys crusing the roads as they are ALL gated, locked and posted NO VEHICLES.  And if I find that damned quad up there again he is getting 4 flat tires, and will be missing his sparkplug and the sherriff called !
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Re: Locater Calls.
« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2009, 03:36:19 PM »
Quote from: turkey slayer on February 13, 2009, 03:14:17 PM
YEP I AGREE DO NOT USE TURKEY CALL BEFOR SEASON, AND I DON'T THINK COYOTE CALLS WORK, I THINK THEY SCARE THE BIRD.

Coyote calls work plenty good, but just as Yelp said once they answer don't keep closing the distance and calling with your howler.  I have heard gobblers and yotes call back and forth to each other of 45 minutes, didn't scare the gobbler one bit, but I imagine if the yote started closing the distance it would have gotten quiet.   :drool:
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Re: Locater Calls.
« Reply #13 on: February 13, 2009, 03:38:03 PM »
I grew up using an owl hooter in MO.  I have yet to get a bird over here on the eastside to answer an owl hoot.  Might be my Missouri drawl, but they don't work for me over here.  :):)
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Re: Locater Calls.
« Reply #14 on: February 13, 2009, 04:13:40 PM »
Custom crow call....yes it does make a difference, and Pileated Woodpecker are my favorites, with owl hooting sometimes in the early a.m. before light.

Oh and as Yelp says ....my "silent doggy whistle" story is funny and I literally screwed myself out of some really big $$$$. :bash:
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