Cackle Practice

[crow]

I have a reprint copy of a book published I think in 1869 "44 Years In the Life Of a Hunter" by Meshack Browning

Browning was a subsistence/market hunter in western Md. from the late 1700's to past the mid 1800's.
He mentions one time hunting spring bear with a friend they heard a gobbler and the friend wanted to shoot it. Meshack mentions that he himself imitated the cackle of a hen and called in the gobbler.

I found it interesting he used the word cackle that long ago.

[EZ]

I think you'll kill a lot of turkeys with that call.

[Poconodoghunter]

I rather use a box call for  fly down  Usually don't use one though.
Trumpets are hard to master that call

[davisd9]

Wow, this is from a while back. Thankfully there is always room for growth. I appreciated the feedback, cannot improve if you do not know.


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[boatpaddle]

Hunt it & let the gobblers tell you, what they think.

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[GobbleNut]

Just noticed this...and looking for something to comment on, so here goes... 

As far as cackles go, I think your call is more than sufficient to fool a gobbler. It is wayyyy better than most guys I have heard trying to pull off a cackle. 

Quite honestly, before I was aware that you were using a trumpet, I would have guessed that tonal quality was coming from a scratch box (so much for my old-age hearing, I suppose).

I think the cadence is great and the crispness of the individual notes is good, but I agree with a couple of other commenters that the tonal quality is off slightly in that my perception is that the notes of a cackle are somewhat hollow sounding...and to me kind of a hybrid sound between fast clucking and speedy yelping. It is a difficult sound/call to pull off...and especially at the speed at which it is done from a live turkey.

On the other hand, where I mostly hunt, the Merriam's turkeys that frequent this region rarely, if ever, cackle when they leave the tree (or otherwise)...so the number of times I have heard REAL turkeys cackle leaves my opinion to be suspect...and more likely, unworthy of serious consideration. 

...But I threw it out there anyway...just for the heck of it...