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Other Hunting => Turkey Hunting => Topic started by: teal101 on February 13, 2009, 10:29:03 AM

Title: Locater Calls.
Post by: teal101 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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Post by: turkey slayer 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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Post by: bowhuntin 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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Post by: Bofire 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.
Carl
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Post by: Machias 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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Post by: STIKNSTRINGBOW 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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Post by: NWTFhunter 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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Post by: strutnrut1984 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.
Title: Re: Locater Calls.
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Locater Calls.
Post by: yelp 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...
Title: Re: Locater Calls.
Post by: strutnrut1984 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.
Title: Re: Locater Calls.
Post by: NWTFhunter 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 !
Title: Re: Locater Calls.
Post by: Machias 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:
Title: Re: Locater Calls.
Post by: Machias 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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Post by: Wacenturion 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:
Title: Re: Locater Calls.
Post by: yelp on February 13, 2009, 04:18:30 PM: I liked your call Wacenturian...d it was the instructions you gave me I didn't like....Blow and listen blow harder and listen...If your dog (gobbler) doesn't show up say here doggy(gobby) here doggy (gobby)..LOL :chuckle:
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Post by: Bofire on February 13, 2009, 04:18:41 PM: Yup the howler kicks butt for locating but once you locate shut up, get in position and cluck him on in. Been working for me for many many years.
Carl
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Post by: hornhunter on February 13, 2009, 07:10:20 PM: Owl call in the AM

Crow all day long

dont underestimate the slamming truck door!
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Post by: yelp on February 13, 2009, 07:16:16 PM: So your the one! Yeah that works too just make sure your fingers are out of there before slamming! :yike:
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Post by: Intruder on February 16, 2009, 09:05:37 AM: On 1 of my most memorable hunts I killed a gobbler based on someone target practicing. I was set up in an area for over an hour where I knew the birds liked to hang out. I was getting ready to leave when I heard a guy start shooting a pistol about a half mile off. All the sudden the ol' boy starting gobbling his head off. I sat tight and called him in. I also located one based on a guy hammering... sounded like he was hitting something on an anvil. The bird gobble every time he whacked it.
Title: Re: Locater Calls.
Post by: yelp on February 16, 2009, 09:53:46 AM: Hear that Wacenturian? Will that new vest hold an anvil! :chuckle: I'll bring the hammer! LOL Reminds me of the Rock you put in Don's pack when he wasn't looking! He packed that thing a ways. Intuder I am going to try that new locator call...I got a mini anvil (jewelers) and a hammer... I can see us dragging that thing out there and banging on it....you imagine some turkey hunter walking by and seeing such a sight. Whatchu boyz doing? LOL Hammer'em with the Anvil call...OK thats enough...LOL..
Title: Re: Locater Calls.
Post by: Wacenturion on February 16, 2009, 09:57:25 AM: "Reminds me of the Rock you put in Don's pack when he wasn't looking! He packed that thing a ways."

Would be more correct to say he packed that rock around all..................day! :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: Locater Calls.
Post by: yelp on February 16, 2009, 10:02:01 AM: I have checked my pack ever since! :chuckle: