I saw this older video of Alex Rutledge calling in/running off a horse and it got me thinking about things I have called in besides turkeys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5fSqJIqBE4
I called in an entire herd of cattle, probable 30 head of mostly yearlings one time who were very interested in my decoys. It took three attempts to run them off, but I still killed that gobbler.
Also had coyotes and dogs some investigate.
What have you all had come check out your calling besides turkeys?
Yotes, Bobcats, Crows, Owls, Hawks, and imho once a Buzzard.
Quote from: Gooserbat on March 04, 2014, 03:38:22 PM
Yotes, Bobcats, Crows, Owls, Hawks, and imho once a Buzzard.
I forgot that I called in a buzzard once! It swooped a strutter that was about 40 yards away and actually pushed it closer! That was Brad's first gobbler.
I guess we can't say we "called in" that crop duster last year, can we?
Well, I wouldn't say I "CALLED" them into me, but one of the craziest things was I had the guys @ Ft. Hood doing the helicopter training exercises "buzz" me from time to time!!! I don't know how they spotted me, but it *ALWAYS* stunned me how quiet the 'copters were; they liked to do that as I put on my snake boots, before the hunt - a LOT!
Dunno if they were "loaded", but it always freaked me out, having all those guns pointing at me!! ??
Called in a bobcat.Last year called in a red fox.
Coyotes. Had a Barred Owl swoop down out of a tree and try to snatch a Zara Spook off the top of the water last year. Lucky, I saw him coming.
Thats funny!! I would hate for that to happen to me though! I have called in a few predators, a few hunters and had to run off a few cows. But no horses yet!!!
God Bless
A box turtle :TooFunny: not kidding
Had a Sceery decoy ripped to shreds by a Golden Eagle....
Called in more coyotes than I can count, most died...
Cows, yeah, that's tough to do, dang things kick my decoys...
mudhen
I called in a river otter last year....no joke.
We (yep I have a witness and it's on camera) were about 500-600yds from the closest creek or river and saw this crazy looking thing running right at us. We had set up on a gobbler that was coming out of a wood lot up on to a power line, where we were waiting. We heard the leaves crunching and could tell something was coming fast and out popped this otter. He comes in to about 20yds of us, stopped, looked right at us for a second, and then turned right back around and left the same way he came.... I would have never believed it if I hadnt seen it myself.
I called in a group of hens last year that had a tame albino peacock hen with them. She thought she was a turkey and so did they from the way they acted. If it would have been peacock gobbler I would have had to put my last tag on it. Found out later that a neighboring property owner has bunches of them so it was just wondering with some friends I guess.
The trespassing POS from the next farm over, twice in the same day. Round 2 almost had me laughing and he just shrugged his shoulders and left! LOL
Had a big bobcat come in one morning. I lip squeaked and he came stalking up onto a rock that I later measured at 6 feet from my boots. Thought I might be about to have a bobcat in my lap when he suddenly figured out something was up and hurried out of there.
One of the farms I hunt has draft horses that follow me around like big (really big) puppy dogs when I walk through their pasture. I have to try to set up out of their sight or they won't leave me alone.
I called in a cow elk and two yearling calves.
A redneck on a 4 wheeler. Well I didn't actually call him in so much as decoy him. I was at the far end of a long narrow pasture. He was crossing at the other end about 300 yds away. He was almost completely across when he stopped and backed up. Then he came all the way down the field and road to within 20 yds of my decoys and stopped. Stared at them for a couple minutes before leaving.
Predators but the craziest has been about 4 geese in a corn field who absolutely did not like my decoy. It was a foam one and they tore it to shreds......
I called in a cow elk, a bobcat and a bear.
OK, the bobcat was sitting there staring at me when it suddenly wheeled away and stared down the draw away from me. That's when the big black bear went wandering by about 80 yards away.
I don't really think I called it in but I'm sure the bobcat was interested in my calling. The cow elk came right up behind me in NE TN (same trip as the bear). My buddy called up a raghorn spike at the same spot the next day. Still had his small rack in early April.
I have had deer, coyotes, owls, and a bobcat come into my setup. The strangest thing I ever saw come in was a guy driving a pickup truck. It was on public land, and no vehicles are allowed past a certain point. He had to be at least 500 yards from where he could legally drive and looked lost.
coons a coyote and sadly a hunter that came in gun in the ready position that he whipped to his shoulder when I waved at him!! I yelled and brought my gun up only time in my life I've ever pointed a gun at somebody scared the crap outta me figured if he was gonna shoot me I was gonna shoot back. I shouldn't even refer to him as a hunter slob would be more appropriate
Called in another hunter that snuck in on the other side of our birds we were working. He shot and the pellets hit a few feet to our left
Quote from: highwaygun on March 04, 2014, 06:31:58 PM
I called in a group of hens last year that had a tame albino peacock hen with them. She thought she was a turkey and so did they from the way they acted. If it would have been peacock gobbler I would have had to put my last tag on it. Found out later that a neighboring property owner has bunches of them so it was just wondering with some friends I guess.
Three years ago I called in a male peacock that was hanging with a gobbler. I could have killed the peacock twice but never got a shot on the gobbler. My buddy thought I was nuts till he looked thru my nikon turkey scope and saw the peacock down the ridge.
Probably the bobcat that brushed up against me while sneaking on my decoy.
I have called in hoot owls directly overhead, and one time I had a red tail hawk swoop in on my decoy and attack it.
Quote from: CASH on March 04, 2014, 09:28:34 PM
Called in another hunter that snuck in on the other side of our birds we were working. He shot and the pellets hit a few feet to our left
I would have had a hard time not kicking that guys a$$......
Quote from: tomstopper on March 05, 2014, 06:18:31 AM
Quote from: CASH on March 04, 2014, 09:28:34 PM
Called in another hunter that snuck in on the other side of our birds we were working. He shot and the pellets hit a few feet to our left
I would have had a hard time not kicking that guys a$$......
We never saw him, but I'm sure we scared the piss out of him with return fire, sort of. I fired a few rounds into the ground.
Called in a strutting hen once... no beard or I would've laid the hammer on her lol also had a bobcat approach me and my cousin as we were trying to locate a gobbler.
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Had 3 horses come in and knock down the decoys and after placing them back up the horses clung to me like puppies. Sufficiently ruined my hunt.
I've hard cows come in and "play" with my feather flex decoys. Spinning them around the stake with their noses. Sigh....
I was calling a flock of ducks out in a flooded pasture one season. I fell asleep for maybe 5 minutes and awoke to a horse with my duck call in his mouth. The sound of the call is what made me wake up.
Not exactly a call "in" but more of a "calling". Have a good friend an avid WT hunter. He hates turkey, all the noise they make when he's hunting. To me they are "confidence" decoys to deer, if turkey are around must be OK. Anyhow, he is a "long before" the sun comes up hunter. Crawles up into a two man stand places his "brand new" 308 with new Leupold across the gun rail, he's ready to go now. Just about sun up a few turkey start off the roost. Well one was perched in a tall pine right above him and took a "crap" ..................SPLAT right on his brand new rifle, smack dab on the bolt, trigger and scope. :TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny: He was livid, had to be there. Now he really HATES turkey. True story :funnyturkey:
I called a bobcat to my feet one day. Didn't know he was there. I uncrossed my legs and the grass exploded as this thing took off. Scared the snot outta me. The strangest though was calling in a male peacock from a neighboring farm. Never got him into full strut though! ;-)
Coyote, 2 different lime truck spreaders a year apart, in different locations, had decoys out, did not seem to matter, they hit the field and hit the gas, hunt over.
Called in a 7' black snake with a box call ( maybe a snake charmer). I was using my box call and watching all the rabbits running all around me 6-7, some right by my feet. Then i happened to look down and 7' black snake was streatched out looking at hand area, with his head up in the air, wandered what to do. I pinched the lid of the box call to the box, so i could hold it tight and with all of one motion hit him in the head.
Cows, 3 pit bulls at one time, coyotes, owls, hawks, other dogs, hunters...
Thanks,
Clark
The 2nd time I ever turkey hunted we knew nothing about it. We were just hunting because the guy we quail hunted on said if we wanted to hunt quail we had to hunt turkeys. Anyway the 2nd time out I called in a rooster pheasant, and I am in a part of Kansas that doesn't have pheasants.
I've called in elk, deer, coyotes, bobcats but the wildest thing I've called in was a Mt. Lion.
On opening day last year my dad and I were hunting together he was filming. We were set up in a log pile where a dozer pushed up some brush in some clear cut woods. A bobcat snuck up behind us and ounces on my dads leg. He jumped up and yelled. Lol
I called these two otters in one morning in Greenswamp East, WMA in SW, Fl. I was using a mouth diaphragm call.
Should have been a much better picture..they came right up to me..I forgot to zoom or something..can't remember.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v71/Iflytrout/Pictures/ottergobblers1.jpg)
Male Peacock
I had a cougar within 20 yards of me. Also had a wolf working his way towards me and a buddy, but he stopped about 70 yards away from us and didn't get any closer. Had a few coyotes get pretty close to me as well.
Every year I call in a coyote. Last year I called in 3 on 3 different days. They all came to me on a dead run....their last runs....Danny
I was hunting behind a spillway from a reservoir working a box call I had made when I see a car pull up to the gate. A young woman gets out and starts walking toward the dam when she pulls out a camera. She's looking around and then pulls her top off and starts taking pictures of herself. I was maybe 20 yards away watching this whole thing and cracking up. After 20 minutes or so she gets dressed and leaves having no idea I was there. I bring that call with me everywhere I hunt now but haven't had that kind of luck ever since! :drool:
Quote from: CrustyRusty on March 06, 2014, 03:44:38 PM
I was hunting behind a spillway from a reservoir working a box call I had made when I see a car pull up to the gate. A young woman gets out and starts walking toward the dam when she pulls out a camera. She's looking around and then pulls her top off and starts taking pictures of herself. I was maybe 20 yards away watching this whole thing and cracking up. After 20 minutes or so she gets dressed and leaves having no idea I was there. I bring that call with me everywhere I hunt now but haven't had that kind of luck ever since! :drool:
Too bad it quit working. I was gonna offer to buy it!
Quote from: renegade19 on March 06, 2014, 04:51:48 PM
Quote from: CrustyRusty on March 06, 2014, 03:44:38 PM
I was hunting behind a spillway from a reservoir working a box call I had made when I see a car pull up to the gate. A young woman gets out and starts walking toward the dam when she pulls out a camera. She's looking around and then pulls her top off and starts taking pictures of herself. I was maybe 20 yards away watching this whole thing and cracking up. After 20 minutes or so she gets dressed and leaves having no idea I was there. I bring that call with me everywhere I hunt now but haven't had that kind of luck ever since! :drool:
Too bad it quit working. I was gonna offer to buy it!
:TooFunny: :TooFunny: Probably would have been the most expensive turkey call ever sold.....
Bald eagles ran strutters out of the field. They were working my way when the eagle swooped down and they ran in. The eagles perched and waited. Sure enough, about 10 mins later the gobblers returned and the eagles ran them out a second time ... this time not to return. With the live birds, they never bothered my decoys.
Had a Sand hill Crane come running to my decoys.
I have called in fisher and coyote, but one of the funniest things that ever happened was when I was field hunting.
I had set up pretty early on the edge of this field. I had placed my decoy, and was got back in my blind. By sunup, I had a few hens investigate my decoy. Now the wind picked up, and my deke started spinning, well, this got the girls nervous, but that was nothing compared to when a gust of wind blew my deke right off the stake, and it started bouncing down the field! They took off like a shot!
One of the funniest things I ever saw!
Quote from: CrustyRusty on March 06, 2014, 03:44:38 PM
I was hunting behind a spillway from a reservoir working a box call I had made when I see a car pull up to the gate. A young woman gets out and starts walking toward the dam when she pulls out a camera. She's looking around and then pulls her top off and starts taking pictures of herself. I was maybe 20 yards away watching this whole thing and cracking up. After 20 minutes or so she gets dressed and leaves having no idea I was there. I bring that call with me everywhere I hunt now but haven't had that kind of luck ever since! :drool:
Lucky dog! I've only had other fat, male turkey hunters come to my set up!
A loose pen goat from the neighboring farm in a blind and come in behind me couldn't see it made a goat noise scared the scrap out me caught me off guard wasn't expecting that
God bless the outdoors
believe it or not but i called in someones chickens
Quote from: flintlock on March 04, 2014, 06:59:50 PM
The trespassing POS from the next farm over, twice in the same day. Round 2 almost had me laughing and he just shrugged his shoulders and left! LOL
:TooFunny:
Any manner of predators, coyote, fox, bobcat, bear ( neat but tense for a moment) but the craziest was a hen. I heard what I thought was a hog after a series of calls, snorting, gagging, deep gutteral sounds this was no fighting agressive purr. I called again and it was coming right to me. I actually got to my feet, no way was i gonna let that thing catch me on the ground, I was shocked when a hen walked out!
I've called in lots of deer and coyotes. But the oddest things I've ever called in was an eagle and cows.
I called in a couple of cows one time. The biggest one came in, sniffed my decoy, and then grabbed it in its mouth and walked off with it. I had to jump up, chase and yell at the cow to get it to drop my deke. :lol: ;D
Another time, in Oklahoma, a herd of about 100 cows came in, crowded around my decoy spread and stared at them. I got up and chased them off, but 10 minutes later, they were back. That time my buddy chased them off, but when they started to return, we packed up and moved.
I also called in a bald eagle one time. It flew in and perched above a lone hen deke. It was eyeing her really hard, and I figured it was just a matter of time until the eagle pounced. I was right!! :o After 10 minutes, the eagle swooped down, grabbed my deke and flew off. It finally dropped the decoy when it realized it wasn't real. That deke had several talon holes in it.
I once called in a fox that had a dead chicken in his mouth.
I had done called in this gobbler 3 times that morning but he never offered a shot. Fourth time I could see him about 60 yards and he was strutting back and forth inching a little closer. I hear something behind me and am thinking deer and I thought crap they are going to wind me and blow out of there spooking the bird. A branch snaps and I thought ol !$&# as I had a feeling what it was then. I wheeled around and sure enough I'm staring face to face with a sow and cubs. I stand up and holler and finally after a little persuasion she took her little ones back off the mtn. Gobbler is probably still running. Have had em spook birds 2 other times.
Red fox, bobcat, cows, two horses and bad hunters!
Mountain Lion