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Turkey Calls / Re: One heck of a awesome mail...Last post by Zobo - Today at 12:42:32 PMI played that horn in Nashville, she's killer, and if your gun jambs you can always club the bird with it... solid!!! 🤣
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Trumpets / Wingbones Forum / Re: Trumpet SoundfileLast post by NOmad - Today at 12:42:02 PMSounding good Mr. Ricky
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Trumpets / Wingbones Forum / Trumpet SoundfileLast post by ccleroy - Today at 12:23:44 PMHere's a video I shot the other day while doing some scouting. Enjoy
https://youtu.be/hhntrh0RN6A?si=ekF22vI6uzemBXTk Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk #25
Trumpets / Wingbones Forum / Trumpet Yelps with Inflection ...Last post by ccleroy - Today at 12:19:45 PMThere really is no shortcut on teaching what you are describing, it is literally about running that call and knowing how it wants to be ran and learning its capabilities. There are certain exercises you can use to master a trumpet, but day in day out use and practice with it is what separates the spread. The best way to learn is get in front of live turkeys, try to replicate them and let them be the judge of your calling. Here's a video I shot the other day of just some woods calling while I was out scouting.
https://youtu.be/hhntrh0RN6A?si=ekF22vI6uzemBXTk Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk #27
LEARNING TO TURKEY HUNT / Re: Calling to a roosted gobbl...Last post by TooTallOutdoorss - Today at 12:01:47 PMIf he doesnt have a direct line of sight to me Ill give a few clucks or soft yelps to get his attention and maybe flip him around on the limb to face me and once he responds to my call Ill usually put the call down until I know hes on the floor. Once youve made that connection with that bird thats all you need. Let his curiosity get the best of him. Play that cat and mouse game with him especially if its a lone bird.
I try to avoid making him gobble on the limb as much as possible for multiple reasons. One being (and this really applies to public only) I dont want other hunters who just walked into the area to hear him and try to put a move on him and ruin my hunt. The same way we hear turkeys gobble and make a move on it to get closer so will they and most guys in my area dont have any respect for you being there first. Theyll set their decoy five yards from you if that means theyll get the bird. So the less he gobbles the better for me. The other is and this applies to both public and private guys but not to the pro callers haha. I dont want to keep calling to him while on the roost to give him a reason to not pitch down towards me. I like many am not a pro caller by any means so even though I can sound like a hen 98% of the time theres always that chance I did not hold the striker on my pot call correctly or my mouth call wasnt in the right spot and I made a noise that doesnt resemble anything a turkey would make and now hes questioning what heck is that thing making that noise over there. Now he will either go silent and sneak up on you or if hes a smart bird he might do a 180 and go the other way. And down here in SFL we have a lot of predators and they will come check out a hen yelp or any turkey noise to snag a meal and the last thing I want is for him to see a coyote or bobcat coming in my direction going to that noise and stopping him from flying to me. The way I see it is its like over calling to a bird on the ground. Its a lot easier to mess up the hunt before it starts by not sounding natural or doing too much. I wanna make that connection with him (gobbling back to my calling) and stfu and let him make the mistake not the other way around. My season starts tomorrow down here so Ill keep yall updated on how it goes! Found a couple on public today hammering away on the limbs and got their location so should have some fun tomorrow! #28
Turkey Call Classifieds / Re: Jeff Hollis Bolivian Rosew...Last post by mountainhunter1 - Today at 11:53:59 AMI personally like rosewood about as good as Ironwood. Just makes a fine call. You have some really nice calls in your collection.
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THE GOATS!! 2026 / Re: When Do Ya Start?Last post by mountainhunter1 - Today at 11:51:11 AMSeason begins here in Georgia on March 28, but I generally skip that week unless invited to call for a friend or something and wait for the public land to open on April 4th.
  Probably will not travel at all this time since I have kids graduating from college in the spring and that will fill my time up pretty well for this time around. #30
THE GOATS!! 2026 / Re: IntroductionsLast post by mountainhunter1 - Today at 11:44:33 AMI am a North Carolina boy and reside mostly in North Georgia these days. I grew up hunting the flat as a pancake woods of eastern NC, but have fallen in love along the way with hunting in the Appalachian mtns. I started out hunting deer, bear and squirrel and ducks, but about 40 years ago, I made the mistake of trying to turkey hunt (it truly is an addicting sickness). After I shot my first Tom at 18 steps with a Belgium Browning A-5 with some federal premium 4's, I was hooked and have killed them with about every technique known to man since then (minus fanning and hunting over corn).
In more recent years, I have become a fan of an air drawn call, and I now make most of the calls that I use in the woods. These days, I chose to hunt them 99% of the time on public land (in the mtns), and Eastern's are my turkeys of choice. I do not know for sure if I am good at this or not, but I have killed way too many turkeys and if the Good Lord allows me to live, more will die this spring. But I have also started a new thing in recent year where I try to let as many walk away from my barrel as I choose to harvest. I have grown to love the Turkey more and more with time and learned that killing a bird is not the main goal. Engaging him is more my everything. But yet, killing a turkey will not be my problem, but posting pictures on here may be. Maybe Happy will help me out as he seemed to be helping my friend Crow. But if you gentleman can drag me across the line as far as posting pictures on here, I can take care of the killing a turkey part for the contest. I could care less who wins this competition, but I want to get to know you fella's and have a good time and think this will be a lot of fun. Let me close by saying this, God is the only reason that we get to wake up each day and even more so that we get to enjoy his woods and his birds. It is a gift to go hunting each spring and to hear the turkeys tearing the woods up. A HUGE gift! I make no bones about it - I am with Jesus and desire to please Him and the Father - and hope that each of you have a similar heart desire as well. John 14:6 |
