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#21

Call Making / Re: Working with river cane

Last post by bwhana - Today at 02:43:03 PM

I cut mine in the field green and then left it in long sections indoors for over 6+ months before I felt it was dry enough to work with.  I was surprised how long it took.

#22

Call Making / Working with river cane

Last post by Meleagris gallopavo - Today at 02:25:36 PM

How long does river cane take to dry enough to work with?  I'm planning on cutting some up with my bandsaw but I'm scared I'll mess it up if it's still green.  Also wondering if it will dry faster if I cut it into smaller sections.  I have the cane stored in my shop with no climate control, but I have a place to put some inside if it won't hurt to dry it faster.  Can someone give me some ideas on what to do here?  Thanks!


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#23

LEARNING TO TURKEY HUNT / Re: Do hens make a lot of soun...

Last post by YoungGobbler - Today at 02:09:47 PM

Me personnaly, the sound I most often hear from hens are bubble cluck, just as day the break, until when they are ready to fly down. and once they're on the floor... It's dead quiet. Honestly, pretty sure I can count on one hand the times I've heard a yelp from a hen (In the spring). Actually, I only have two times that I can think of when I heard a yelp in the spring... To me that's just some food for thought to add to Gobbblenut's thread...

Young gobbler what state are you in you hear that little vocalization? I agree with what many guys said regarding timing of breeding phases, pressure, attracting predators, etc but idk anywhere where you dont have at least some days of yelping.

I'm actually in Canada, just up north of Maine...

Our season opens in the end of april and I don't know exactly when the breeding period and the nesting period beggin,  but I know that when our season opens, it's usually two weeks at max after complete snow melts. I don't know exactly when turkeys really start breeding and when hens start to lay eggs. What I know is that turkeys usually split from their winter group to their spring group around the very end of march, and the firsts few weeks of april. I could guess that maybe at that splitting time we would hear some yelpings, but after that, it didn't happened to me yet to hear some heavy yelps on a particular morning...

#24

LEARNING TO TURKEY HUNT / Re: Do hens make a lot of soun...

Last post by YoungGobbler - Today at 02:02:23 PM

I think the number of turkeys hanging out together determines, to a great degree, how much vocalization you are likely to hear from them. It has been my experience that the more turkeys in the group, the more likely they are going to chat with each other...and any one of them might say something that sets off one or more of the others.

This is especially true with turkeys on the roost. Get a big group roosting together, or in close proximity, and they are very likely to be pretty vocal in that timeframe right before they fly down, as well as sometimes after they fly up in the evening.

On the other hand, it seems that the smaller the number of turkeys roosted together, the less likely they are to say a lot to each other. I have experienced a number of encounters where I thought a gobbler (that was gobbling) was by himself on the roost because I heard no other calling only to find out there was a hen or two with him that never made a peep.  That seems to rarely be the case with a large group of birds.

I think you're right on this one. It would explain why in the fall (big groups) i hear more yelp then in the spring (small group of 1-2 tom for 3 to 6 hens at most usually).
Another factor could be that , if I'm not mistaken, you're hunting rios and merriams, instead of eastern, isn't it? That could also explain what you're hearing. And I also think that rios and merriams hangs in bigger group than eastern, right?

#25

General Forum / Re: TSS prices will go up soon

Last post by Bowguy - Today at 01:37:14 PM

A 12 ga aint all that heavy fellas. I took a couple birds with a 20ga tss last year and prob  got enough for a few years or more but ill not set up another gun for it.

#26

General Forum / Re: TSS prices will go up soon

Last post by Dtrkyman - Today at 12:30:11 PM

Triple b over 100$


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#27

Turkey Call Soundfiles / Re: Cackle Practice

Last post by GobbleNut - Today at 12:27:32 PM

Just noticed this...and looking for something to comment on, so here goes... 

As far as cackles go, I think your call is more than sufficient to fool a gobbler. It is wayyyy better than most guys I have heard trying to pull off a cackle. 

Quite honestly, before I was aware that you were using a trumpet, I would have guessed that tonal quality was coming from a scratch box (so much for my old-age hearing, I suppose).

I think the cadence is great and the crispness of the individual notes is good, but I agree with a couple of other commenters that the tonal quality is off slightly in that my perception is that the notes of a cackle are somewhat hollow sounding...and to me kind of a hybrid sound between fast clucking and speedy yelping. It is a difficult sound/call to pull off...and especially at the speed at which it is done from a live turkey.

On the other hand, where I mostly hunt, the Merriam's turkeys that frequent this region rarely, if ever, cackle when they leave the tree (or otherwise)...so the number of times I have heard REAL turkeys cackle leaves my opinion to be suspect...and more likely, unworthy of serious consideration. 

...But I threw it out there anyway...just for the heck of it... 

 

#28

General Forum / Re: Word Association Game

Last post by doublespurs21 - Today at 12:08:50 PM

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#29

20 Gauge Turkey Guns / Re: Remington 1100 20ga Mag

Last post by bwhana - Today at 11:58:40 AM

Trulock 585 would be a good starting point for the hunting pattern you are looking for based on my 20s.

#30

General Forum / Re: Word Association Game

Last post by ditchdigger - Today at 11:44:24 AM

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