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After reading everybodys advice about roosting a turkey with a crow call my little brain still can't figure out a simple question; do you call just before dark or after dark? During daylight won't they see you calling/after dark won't they see the light of your headlight?
Turkey hunting out here in west Quebec is still new so as silly as my question may sound, not many people out here really know the basics that Ontario hunters take for granted.
 
I use the crow call in the dark in the morning to try to locate a bird that is still up on the roost. Never "roosted" one at night to locate for a set-up the next morning as many hunters do. I would say if its still light when you get a shock gobble using the crow call the bird may still be on the ground and still moving. If its dark the bird is probably up the tree and stationary. I've walked right under birds roosting in the dark that didnt respond to the crow call and spooked them. If you think birds are around but not responding, move slowly and quietly and wait them out. They may respond when the sun comes up and they fly down.
 
I go right at last light.... light enough to see where you are going but dark enough that the birds have settled in for the night.... even if they are still on teh ground at that point they aren't going far and the objective isn't to get right under them it's to get within 50-100 yards... depending on terrain.....
 
That and if you are there as they try to fly into their roost they make one heck of a ruckus. Not graceful birds at all when it comes to flying that's for sure.
 
You can actually use pretty much anything that's loud to make a turkey shock gobble.... problem with using a coyote call is that may make them want to leave the area....
 
Superbrad said:
You can actually use pretty much anything that's loud to make a turkey shock gobble.... problem with using a coyote call is that may make them want to leave the area....
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true story I was in the woods when a neighbor was ripping around on a dirt bike and one of the toms would not shut up lol
 
I could never get a Tom to shock gobble to a crow call during hunting season. He would gobble to every coyote howl or "fake gobble from box call"


Not sure what it is, I've even walked out to a corner of a field, Howled on my coyote howler, Had 5 roosted birds not 50 yards away up in the hardwoods. All the jakes shock gobbled to it. Scared the #### out of me.
 
I got 6 good roosting spots, the day before i will make a round when there is still light and with my bino will see them on the ground, will happen often 3 or 4 sites are busy, i never make a sound when i will be hunting that roosted bird the next morning, it will be there... JP.
 
caramel said:
I got 6 good roosting spots, the day before i will make a round when there is still light and with my bino will see them on the ground, will happen often 3 or 4 sites are busy, i never make a sound when i will be hunting that roosted bird the next morning, it will be there... JP.
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Thats not roosting birds thats patterning them....
 
I agree with your choice of word.... for the last 18 years ( New York and Ontario), i did fill my tag in the first light of opening day... JP.
 
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