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General Forum / Re: What do you plan on adding...Last post by NOmad - Today at 09:14:52 AMAdding a couple new trumpets to the rotation this spring, can't wait to put them to use.
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General Forum / Re: What do you plan on adding...Last post by NOmad - Today at 09:13:50 AMQuote from: Panfishinoutlaw on January 19, 2026, 03:40:40 PMI need some new boots. Found out mine aren't waterproof anymore when I was chasing pheasants in the rain! Even with mink oil applied a few days before going. I finally broke down this year and bought a pair of Crispi's. Have a pair of Danner Pronghorns and they are nice but they are darn near the cost of the Crispi boots now. Hopefully they live up to the hype and the abuse I am going to put them through. #53
LEARNING TO TURKEY HUNT / Re: Do hens make a lot of soun...Last post by GobbleNut - Today at 09:11:34 AMFrom my experience, in their spring flocks, hens (and gobblers) are generally pretty vocal on the roost, probably because they feel safe up there in the tree...and it often seems they are looking for reassurance that all went well for their flock-mates through the night. Once they fly down, there also seems to be a brief period sometimes where they are sorting out dominance within the flock and those squabbles can be pretty vocal at times. However, things tend to taper off quickly and within a few minutes they are quiet...or mostly so.
There are exceptions to the above. It seems there are sometimes extraneous sources of "irritants" that will set them off once they are on the ground. Things like dominance interactions within a flock, alarm warnings associated with predators or perceived danger, those squabbles between individual birds, etc. may cause a vocal outburst at any time. Overall, though, during the day...and again in my experience...hen turkeys seem to be reluctant to make much noise. Attracting the attention of those things that are out to eat you by doing a lot of squawking is not a good idea...and they seem to know that.  #56
Pot Calls Forum / Re: Ceramic pot callsLast post by Kwgoke - Today at 08:43:49 AMI'll add another vote for Buster
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General Forum / Re: For the Snow LoversLast post by Spring Creek Calls - Today at 08:14:04 AMSorry, looks like they pulled the video. It was a 100+ car pileup on I-196 near Zeeland MI. in whiteout conditions.
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LEARNING TO TURKEY HUNT / Re: Do hens make a lot of soun...Last post by eggshell - Today at 08:06:40 AMThey call some here (Ohio), but not a lot. I think you are not hearing hens because they are already sitting on their nest. If you get out early spring they call a lot. By season they are mated up with dominate gobblers and or incubating.
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LEARNING TO TURKEY HUNT / Re: Calling VS Experience/Wood...Last post by eggshell - Today at 08:02:34 AMYour right youngGobbler. A lot of birds are killed this way. It's deer hunting only the deer have feathers and gobble. Around me there are hundreds of deer bait sites and the turkeys have learned where they are. The deer hunters quit putting out corn when season ends in January or February, but the birds still come back and scratch out the leftovers. They learn to hang in the area too. I know hunters who go sit in those blinds and then claim they called a gobbler in, I think that is only marginally true. They steered or speeded up a gobbler that would have been there anyway. In essence they shot a bird over bait. This is legal as long as the bait had been removed for 30 days. I don't believe it's ever removed to the animals. We feed deer in our yard and watch deer come and check even in the summer when there's been no grain for months. This is not woodsmanship or calling in birds. Woodsmanship is being lost
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