Crow call and Owl hooter

[gobbler777]

Gibson and Gibson

[shaman]

To begin with, there's enough going on in my hunting neighborhood that I've stopped using locator calls.  One neighbor had a donkey. Another keeps pea fowl.    On weekdays, the school bus will set them off.  All I have to do is go to one of my favorite listening posts and be patient. 

I'm one of those guys who learned to owl hoot.  It may not get a gobble, but it will often get the crows working, and that will elicit a gobble.

Which brings me to a point:    Have any of y'all notice how crows will start sounding off when the turkeys move?  Until I read it elsewhere years ago on another forum, I'd not really thought about it.  However, there seems to be a good deal of animosity between crows and turkeys.  Once I got clued-in, I started to pay attention to it.   Sure enough, quite often I've found that the crows will sound off when turkeys come out into a nearby pasture.   It isn't 100% for sure, but it's worth paying attention.

[daddyduke]

Harrison hooter & Primos power crow

[Chris O]

 I haven't used very many owl hooters but I bought a Houndstooth and really like it. I was blowing it tonight and got all of the owls stirred up. I had several going It was pretty neat. I love listening to owls it's almost as good as turkey gobbles.

[idgobble]

I mouth call for owls and use a duck or goose call when near a river or lake.  Never had much luck with crow calls.

[gobbler777]

Gibson Calls .... they are Top Shelf    at Crowmart.com

[lunghit]

Is the Harrison Hooter the same as the Hooks Hoot'N Stick?

[trkehunr93]

My voice, it's saved me 8 oz. of weight in my vest.   

[southern_leo]

Harrison hooter....im now gonna be much help on the crow call.

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[southern_leo]

Is the Harrison Hooter the same as the Hooks Hoot'N Stick?

I believe so as Mr Harrison is friends with the Hooks crew. They usually set up at the convention together

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[3bailey3]

Harrison hooter and Daryal on here, Ncbowhunter, makes the best crow call I have ever blown and I own a Gibson!

[3bailey3]

Sorry it's NCbowjunkie

[GobbleNut]

From my experience, the key factor is volume.  The louder a call is, the more likely a gobbler will gobble at the sound, regardless of its realism.  Whatever brand you choose to get, make sure you can blow it loudly.

We use the term "shock gobble" for a reason.  During the spring, gobblers are instinctively "conditioned" to gobble to attract hens to their location.  They also gobble as a competitive response to other gobblers they can hear, and instinctively try to gobble "over the top" of other gobblers.  Again, that automatic response is genetically ingrained,...they can't help themselves.  And again, it seems to be triggered to a significant degree by volume. 

Ask yourself why gobblers will start gobbling at thunder when it is close by,...or other really loud noises like that?  It is simply an instinctive response triggered by their genetic programming to gobble on top of other gobblers.  When a sound with enough volume hits their ears, their brain automatically triggers the response gobble,...a "shock gobble"...because the brain interprets the sound immediately as a challenge from another gobbler. 

Here's a tip about using locator calls:  a single, loud sound of just about any type will often elicit a response gobble better than the most realistic natural sound in the woods.  This is especially true in hard-hunted places where gobblers have learned to suppress gobbling to those natural woods sounds of normal volume.  In those cases, often the only thing that will trigger that instinctive "shock gobble" response is by making the loudest, sudden noise you can with something.

The moral of the story:  Whatever locator you choose, the louder it is, the better.   

[lunghit]

Is the Harrison Hooter the same as the Hooks Hoot'N Stick?

I believe so as Mr Harrison is friends with the Hooks crew. They usually set up at the convention together

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Thanks I will be ordering one soon.

[NCbowjunkie]

I have a new closed reed owl hooter that I will put up against all others. And can build a hooter crow matched set for anyone that wants