I have tried and tried again and have no luck except for early morning with crow calls and owl hooters. Really want some feedback from you guys that have tried either a pelliated woodpecker, peacock or a hawk screamer. Let me know what you have and how they have performed for ya.
Thanks Roy
I use the owl and crow 90% of the time. I do have an old PS OLT red tail hawk that they will holler at,I also have and old Haydels...Raging Rooster. It will do roosters and woodpeckers...rarely use it only when nothing is talking. I have heard them go nuts on a coyote a bunch of times, but I havent ever bought one.
If I cant get them to answer to an owl, crow, or aggresive cutting when locating....Im headed to the house. Got plenty of mornings in our season to get on one that wants to play.
Owl hoot with my own voice and have a crow call and pileated woodpecker call around my neck.
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I have used crow, owl, pileated woodpecker, coyote, canadian goose, high ball on a duck call, cedar train whistle, hawk, and others I can't recall at the moment.
Now I rarely carry a locator call. I sometimes hoot with my voice at first light if I don't hear anything. I much prefer to let them gobble on their own. If I am not hearing anything after flydown I will typically try different turkey calls. If they won't answer them, I probably won't call them up anyway.
I use my vocal chords to make both Barred owl, Great Horned owl, and to crow call. Not only does it work, it cuts down on weight and clutter in my vest. I've carried everything from coyote calls, silent dog whistles (before Mark Drury pushed them), goose calls, crow calls, owl hooters, hawk calls, woodpecker calls and even bit on the peacock call. I'm sold on mouth calling using only the vocal chords. Hell, I even carried a battery powered personal protection alarm which gave off a horrendous ear piercing, high frequency, modulated signal similar to an emergency siren when activated w/ a push button after hearing birds gobble at distant ambulance, fire trucks, and police car sirens. I know it would have worked, but I was both too embarrassed to unleash the awful sound and I felt that it would violate the "hunt" to employ such a garish tactic in the wild, so it resides in the box w/ all the other "shock" calls.
My go to locator calls a custom crow and owl call. I also have used the Peacock caller with some success. I have had the owl bring no gobbles but use the crow call and the they would gobble there brains out. And just the opposite to happen sometimes. There is no one locator that will make the gobble all the time. I have had turkey gobble at simple hoot owl and not say a word to a barred owl 8 note call. I am sure the coyote call works but I do not like to do sounds which could be a sign of danger to the turkey.
canadian goose :icon_thumright:
Owls are definitely enemies of turkeys and a danger to them.
Quote from: drenalinld on July 27, 2011, 11:14:31 PM
I have used crow, owl, pileated woodpecker, coyote, canadian goose, high ball on a duck call, cedar train whistle, hawk, and others I can't recall at the moment.
Now I rarely carry a locator call. I sometimes hoot with my voice at first light if I don't hear anything. I much prefer to let them gobble on their own. If I am not hearing anything after flydown I will typically try different turkey calls. If they won't answer them, I probably won't call them up anyway.
I also don't call much with locator call at first light, but when I do it's mostly with a crow call then the owl call. Right After fly up time I will walk all over blowing the owl call trying to find one roosted.
Have used mostly everything listed above.
When the chips are down and tom is tight lipped I pull out the Ferocious shock locator. A self blown air horn that has incredible volume.
I gave one to a friend and he reported back: Hey that locator worked when the owl and crow wouldn't. Sell them for 5.00 if any intrest.
I like to locate from the truck often and hate when a call is used for locating, setup made and next gobble he's at the truck!
I have a very hard time locating gobblers in most of southern portions of Florida with a Owl call , due mostly to the abundance of owls , but on occasion when they are really hot they will fire off to a Owl
A good loud Crow call will get them to fire off mid day time when nothing else seems to work , in the early morning they are gobbling anyway
I carry a James Harrison owl hooter(awesome sound) and a Bob Buckner cocobola crow call. I only use them when nothing else is happening. I owl hoot with my voice as well- just not as much volume.
Quote from: Old Gobbler on August 26, 2011, 10:17:48 PM
I have a very hard time locating gobblers in most of southern portions of Florida with a Owl call , due mostly to the abundance of owls , but on occasion when they are really hot they will fire off to a Owl
A good loud Crow call will get them to fire off mid day time when nothing else seems to work , in the early morning they are gobbling anyway
when are we going?? lol
Primos peacock call will get them to shock gobble quite well!
I only use locator calls as a last resort if the birds are'nt talking on their own. When I do use one 90% of the time it's Primos "Power Crow".
Air horn! Trying this
I mostly use owl and crow.I have had them answer the crow call late morning when they wouldn't answer hen calls
owls the best but had luck with crows and hawk calls as well
I've always used my voice for the barred owl call. Crow calling has worked well for me ... Gibson and Mincey calls for sure.
Owl and crow call.
Quote from: drenalinld on July 27, 2011, 11:14:31 PM
I have used crow, owl, pileated woodpecker, coyote, canadian goose, high ball on a duck call, cedar train whistle, hawk, and others I can't recall at the moment.
Now I rarely carry a locator call. I sometimes hoot with my voice at first light if I don't hear anything. I much prefer to let them gobble on their own. If I am not hearing anything after flydown I will typically try different turkey calls. If they won't answer them, I probably won't call them up anyway.
I've never pulled a "shock gobble" out of a turkey yet with a crow call. I just don't feel like a crow call is much of an effective locator call, at least here in Georgia anyways. Turkeys have just learned to tune them out. Maybe too many ended up with sparks on their backs from one of those pesky "crows"?
Quote from: Old Gobbler on August 26, 2011, 10:17:48 PM
I have a very hard time locating gobblers in most of southern portions of Florida with a Owl call , due mostly to the abundance of owls , but on occasion when they are really hot they will fire off to a Owl
A good loud Crow call will get them to fire off mid day time when nothing else seems to work , in the early morning they are gobbling anyway
X2.. same goes for North Florida. I felt like a professional Owl caller the first few days. Owls everywhere.
coyote squaller
Owl call,But i like my crow call as well.
I like a hen call for a locator
A wood duck call works good...
Harrison Hoot Tube....Gibson Crow call for me.
Tube call
An owl call early, but have used about everything from a air horn to a yell. On the right turkey any noise works. Some turkeys when they shut up its hard to get them worked up again.
Harrison hoot tube and crow call.
Owl hoot with my voice. It may not work as good as some, but it sure is easy to carry!
The Squeelin' Hen ;D
In north Florida we have more owls, hawks and crows than you can shake a stick at. Been a long time since I heard a crow or hawk get a gobble. I have however had a gobbler fire one off at me to a yelp a minute after blowing a crow or a hawk call.
I usually use a n owl or crow but I have had luck with the Primos peacock call which can also do the pileated woodpecker and an ok coyote howl. The most interesting one I have ever seen successfully used was a can of Coke which served two purposes. My buddy Stan would chug the coke as we walked in and would belch as loud as he could which often drew shock gobbles. At this point he would take the empty can and set it on a small sapling or some brush and use it as a decoy gobbler head. I witnessed him shoot a few really nice beards using said technic mixed with a little slate calling. You can only imagine how I felt carrying around all my paraphenalia in a stuffed vest with every call under the sun and decoys to watch my bud blast a bird and travel real light.
For mid morning locating I have had good luck using Haydels pileated woodpecker call. Seems to work when nothing else will.
We have so many crows around here that I can hardly ever get them to work. Seems like there is always one making noise somewhere close by.