I started with a slate and quite liked it. Took me quite awhile to leant to use a mouth call. Practiced for a coupes seasons before using it in the field and now that seems to be the only call I use. I carry a couple slates, but seem to focus on the mouth call.
Spring Turkey
- Thread starter loogin28
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Perhaps I should have said easiest rather than best.
Ideally you don't want to start learning how to use calls just before you go hunting.
I want to try ducks this fall so I bought a couple calls now to practise over the summer.
swinginberrys
Regular
- Location
- Mallorytown
Illegal for both turkeys and migratory game birds.
Adrian J Hare
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- NewLowell On. Can.
In Fact that call because the size of it sounds very good. Has a perfect tone and is a waterproof box call as well. Every turkey hunter that is serious about success should have a number of different calls allowing for different tones in the woods. Everyday the air pressure is different and your favorite call is going to sound different too. By changing it up sometimes strikes that gobble that you never knew was there or even changing the tone can create a hung up bird to take them extra steps to enable you to take the shot.
As for the Quaker Boy Lil Big time Box its well worth the money...
To deal with the wet I use a glass pot call with a carbon striker. It will work under water if need be.
The electronic calls are illegal and watched the MNR removing them from Canadian Tire shelves two years ago.
I have heard some of the worst turkey calls in the bush over the years and have been even more surprised when a hen or two walks out making those horrendous callsLOL
I use a strutting tom decoy often but what you must realize only the most dominant birds will come to it. If a big one is taken or you find other birds hanging up the strutter needs a change to a small jake fan and that will usually do the trick especially if that strutting jake has a hen under him
The electronic calls are illegal and watched the MNR removing them from Canadian Tire shelves two years ago.
I have heard some of the worst turkey calls in the bush over the years and have been even more surprised when a hen or two walks out making those horrendous callsLOL
I use a strutting tom decoy often but what you must realize only the most dominant birds will come to it. If a big one is taken or you find other birds hanging up the strutter needs a change to a small jake fan and that will usually do the trick especially if that strutting jake has a hen under him
I really like mouth calls. After a bunch of practice I have gotten pretty good at them too.
A couple of nice things about them is you can give them the last little chirp needed if they wont lift their heads while they are in close (while you are drawn at them).
I guess some people dont like the vibrating call in their mouth though. I have a box call and dont really like it. I usually have it with me but find myself just using mouth calls.
A couple of nice things about them is you can give them the last little chirp needed if they wont lift their heads while they are in close (while you are drawn at them).
I guess some people dont like the vibrating call in their mouth though. I have a box call and dont really like it. I usually have it with me but find myself just using mouth calls.
Well I ended up buying the lil deuce slate call with carbon striker. Seems easy enough to use,just need some practice. I also bought some ammo to pattern. 12 ga 2 3/4 Kent #5 diamond shot. It is 3 3/4 dram with 1 1/4oz of shot. I have a Rem 870 with Shurshot stock,Bushnell Trophy red dot and a few chokes to try. Patternmaster extended range ported, Remington x-full and full,Carlson ported coyote. We will see which one will bag me my first turkey.
Cheap call...not worth it...only good for gobblers 18lb or less.
This fellow was taunting another guy in our group by refusing to get any closer than 150 yards to his decoys.
After hanging around for 1/2 hour, he decided that he was tired and plopped his butt in the middle of a cut hay field for another half hour.
The shooter and I sneaked to the opposite fence and by using the lil deuce I managed to get him to gobble and literally run the 200 yards
to the fenceline. Had a pronounced limp along the way which would explain the odd sit in the middle of the field earlier.
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I have used about every type of call out there. I keep going back to the same two.
Knight N Hale Slate hammer and glass Hammer
I like the pot calls because you can sit there and practically not move besides a flick of the wrist and make awesome yelps,cuts, purrs and clucks
They are loud enough a TOM 400 yards away will answer, and they make the most realistic sounds.
Only time I will bring the box call now is if its really windy and I want the sound to travel.
I dont think they make the same pot calls I have, But any of the popular brands will work. I'd buy a good one, they keep it with out for years to come.
Not hard to get good with pot calls if your a beginner. Watch youtube videos, pause and try to imitate the call they make on the video. One hour you will be a pro.
Knight N Hale Slate hammer and glass Hammer
I like the pot calls because you can sit there and practically not move besides a flick of the wrist and make awesome yelps,cuts, purrs and clucks
They are loud enough a TOM 400 yards away will answer, and they make the most realistic sounds.
Only time I will bring the box call now is if its really windy and I want the sound to travel.
I dont think they make the same pot calls I have, But any of the popular brands will work. I'd buy a good one, they keep it with out for years to come.
Not hard to get good with pot calls if your a beginner. Watch youtube videos, pause and try to imitate the call they make on the video. One hour you will be a pro.
Runningfool
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- SW Ontario
Well the score is turkey's 5, me 0! I've heard a lot of gobbling but so far, haven't seen a Tom. I was on the road at 3:30am to hit the field at 4:40am today. My spirits haven't been dampened but I'm hoping to connect soon! Any of you experienced guys and gals want to give me a gold-plated tip to take with me next weekend!
- Location
- SW Ontario
Smashed my first Tom this morning in Perth County. 16 lbs young Tom. Called him in with the help of a resident hen who was yelping her block off in response to my calling. Taking tomorrow off, then back at it Wed to fill my second tag!
I have a box call that kills 6-10 birds(calling for others obviously) in the last 5 years I have owned it. Everyone that hears it says that is the shrillest, shrieking call they have ever heard but it works and birds can hear it a long way off.
Saturday heard 2 gobbles at daylight half a mile across the sideroad. I know the bigger portion of the flock is over there but I try and avoid the big flocks which by the way are starting to break up finally. Not much hope but the weather was the first perfect morning I have seen all season. About 8:15 I was thinking about heading for the house to use the perfect weather to catch up on things from the long winter.
I hear a single gobble by the railroad tracks over by the sideroad so rip into him hard. He responds and we play back and forth for the next hour. He is coming and I am ripping the box call hard enough I have to rechalk. The bush along the tracks has some big hills and you can hear him going up and down the hills, gobbling, coming my way. Another 15or 20 minutes of this he suddenly shuts up. I think great he picked up a hen, which often happens when they are gobbling so long and hard. I give him a final rip and not softly I might add and as I set the call down I lean a little forward and see he is half way across 300 yds of open field at full strut. He opens up with a string of 5-6 gobbles and struts for the bmobile strutter and his 4 hens. 5 minutes later he eats a load of #6 at 25 yds.
Unbeknownst to me he had a double beard but only 3/4" spurs. . First in 18 years of hunting. From now to the end of May you will see what turkey hunting is supposed to be like not the cold slow down birds we have seen so far.
Saturday heard 2 gobbles at daylight half a mile across the sideroad. I know the bigger portion of the flock is over there but I try and avoid the big flocks which by the way are starting to break up finally. Not much hope but the weather was the first perfect morning I have seen all season. About 8:15 I was thinking about heading for the house to use the perfect weather to catch up on things from the long winter.
I hear a single gobble by the railroad tracks over by the sideroad so rip into him hard. He responds and we play back and forth for the next hour. He is coming and I am ripping the box call hard enough I have to rechalk. The bush along the tracks has some big hills and you can hear him going up and down the hills, gobbling, coming my way. Another 15or 20 minutes of this he suddenly shuts up. I think great he picked up a hen, which often happens when they are gobbling so long and hard. I give him a final rip and not softly I might add and as I set the call down I lean a little forward and see he is half way across 300 yds of open field at full strut. He opens up with a string of 5-6 gobbles and struts for the bmobile strutter and his 4 hens. 5 minutes later he eats a load of #6 at 25 yds.
Unbeknownst to me he had a double beard but only 3/4" spurs. . First in 18 years of hunting. From now to the end of May you will see what turkey hunting is supposed to be like not the cold slow down birds we have seen so far.
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i was sitting on my porch last night with my 870, and some turkey loads called a tom.... then few doors down i hear the boom...... neighbor got him. oh well, he got his two. He is done for the season. I hope its my turn very soon.
i downloaded a turkey call app and used it to practice with, when my phone is with me and im hunting i delete the app. prevents the temptation of cheating and the prevention of my truck/gun/money being taken by the law man.
i downloaded a turkey call app and used it to practice with, when my phone is with me and im hunting i delete the app. prevents the temptation of cheating and the prevention of my truck/gun/money being taken by the law man.
Runningfool
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- SW Ontario
I sure hope you are right! Your encouraging words are once again appreciated by those of us heading back to the fields this weekend!
