I dont have one myself,but I do know a couple turkey hunters who swear by them.Whats your guys experience been with them?
I used to have a push pull type box for fighting purrs but i chunked it 10 years ago.I havent done it since.
Not the push pin calls but I do fighting purrs on a slate combined with aggressive clucks and cutts added in. it is really aggressive and I only us it as a last resort on birds that are close but henned up and will not come. Twice it has worked for me and the toms cut from their hens and came literally running.
I used them before with a pot call. Hunting a field one morning and could not get three birds to come in so I threw the fighting purrs at them ! Brought them in to gun range and the guy I was guiding killed the biggest one !!
I do it with a mouth call on occasion, it can go either way, depending on the aggression of the birds being called. Have not pulled any toms away but has been real effective on getting the dominant hen to come check you out, has only worked for me when birds are henned up.
No, never, doesn't work, a complete waste of time......especially in Bama. :gobble:
HC
Quote from: Skeeterbait on March 28, 2011, 09:02:26 PM
Not the push pin calls but I do fighting purrs on a slate combined with aggressive clucks and cutts added in.
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In fact, I used that exact tactic to call in the 2 gobblers that skirted our set up this weekend, and were leaving. I can also purr on my diaphragm, so I can do that and the fighting purr on a slate or glass call. Used to have the double push pin fighting purr call, but it was pretty big to be toting around.
Really HC?? I know it doesn't work all the time, but I've had it work 2 or 3 times, including 4 days ago.
Quote from: RutnNStrutn on March 28, 2011, 09:29:21 PM
Really HC?? I know it doesn't work all the time, but I've had it work 2 or 3 times, including 4 days ago.
I must be doing it wrong! ;)
I was being facetious.
HC
I bought a set of the original Knight & Hale "fightin' purr" calls and still have em. I haven't used them in several years though and there is no telling where I put them. The few times I did use them they worked. I had turkeys that were going away from me turn around and run to the call. I got tired of hauling the two big clunky plastic boxes around that always seemed to purr on their own at the most inopportune time.
Thanks for some input guys.I just bought the fighting purrs that knight and hale make.Spring turkey is in a month for me in pa.Can't wait to try them out.
I had heard of it but never tried it till last year. I was hunting with a buddy and there were several birds a long way off. He fired up his pot call and four birds came running a LONG distance to get to us. The last bird I killed last season came to a fighting/aggressive call. I've used with absolutely no luck as well. Like someone else said, I tend to use it as a last resort, but it can work.
It is one of those things that when used at the right time can be deadly. Can recall at least a half dozen NY longbeards over the past 4 years that have succumbed to fighting purrs and very aggressive cutting. Most came literally running. If you use it in the right situation is is totally deadly, but don't enter the woods expecting to use it IMO. It takes just the right circumstances for it to be successful.
Try it someday just before you give up on one , THEY WILL WORK. I have used both the push pin box and a slate pot and at times they act like they cant get there fast enough ,and at times they act like you are not even there ,but thats turkey hunting. :wave:
i have a buddy who swears by the fighting purrs. he uses them often and is a very successful turkey hunter.
I know several Osceola longbeards that are gobblin' in the big swamp in the sky because of my pot call . :icon_thumright:
Worked for me this weekend to pull one away and into the kill zone. Was using a mouth call and throwing some cuts in with it. Never tried the K&H though.
I use a diaphram call to perform the fighting purrs. Ill take my real turkey wing and slap the ground as I perform the fighting purrs. If nothing is happening I will mimic a turkey fight to draw a turkey in. I've had gobblers react to it. :gobble:
Turkeys aren't fighters there lovers. They would rather make peace than war. Fighting purr, silly hunters. :TooFunny:
I use a diaphragm and a pot to make dueling birds.
Works great in the fall, too.
I have used it a few times and I got it to work on one hunt. A buddy hunted a different spot than I did and we later met up. He told me he heard one and since I didn't hear a thing I said lets go after him. He wanted to wait until tomorrow but I didn't. We got to where he was and he wouldn't answer a thing. I hit a crow call and he hammered back. I knew it was real hilly where he was so I tried to get him to answer again from a different location to kind of pin point where he was. It didn't work but when I went back to where he 1st answered he hammered back. We then looped around and got up on a hill side. I called a few times with no response. I told him we would sit there for 10min and see what happens but we will get up in 15min so that way if we spook something we would have already been gone for 5 min. Well I got tired of sitting there and not hearing a thing or getting an answer. I told him I was going to try some fighting purrs to see what happens. After I called on the slate nothing. I ran the mouth call and got cut off! I waited a bit and called again to get another answer. I told my buddy to get ready that he was coming. I barely even got to see his head when he let his gun bark!! Gobbler down