Evening Locator Question?

[guesswho]

Up until last year I rarely had any luck getting birds in the South, Al/Ga/Fl to gobble after fly up.  I used an Aluminum pot call that hurts my ears and had pretty good success.

Are there any other locators that you know of that you have had luck with in the South after fly up.   I'm not interested in morning time locating, strickly late evening and from the road. 

[cannonball]

Have you tried a coyote howler?

[guesswho]

Have you tried a coyote howler?

Yep, never got a hit.  About the only other thing I remember having any luck with at all was one of those peacock calls, and I didn't have a lot of luck with it.

[El Pavo Grande]

I have hunted AL over the last 15 years, missing a few, and have hunted MS several times.  It's always early season.  I have maybe heard 2 gobble after fly up.  I figured the general nature of those turkeys were as much of a factor as timing of our hunts.

[guesswho]

 El Pavo Grande, yes it seems to be there nature not to gobble much once settled in for the night.  At least it seems that way to me.

[chatterbox]

I used a gobble shaker just after flyup, and got an immediate gobble from a roosted bird.
No experience here with Southern birds though.

[guesswho]

Thats an idea. 

[TRKYHTR]

Up until last year I rarely had any luck getting birds in the South, Al/Ga/Fl to gobble after fly up.  I used an Aluminum pot call that hurts my ears and had pretty good success.

Are there any other locators that you know of that you have had luck with in the South after fly up.   I'm not interested in morning time locating, strickly late evening and from the road. 

Yep Gobble at um. You'll probably only get 1 response but thats all you need to know where he's at in the morning.

TRKYHTR

[Ol'Mossy]

I take my buddy with me he does a mean owl hoot with his voice

[n2deer]

Never had much luck in the south with anything. Gotten a few but very few responses,  I would say more random than anything to be honest.

I had a odd occasion last year where a group of 3 birds gobbled all evening. It was a youth hunt with my son.
Me and my son and another friend and his son stood at the truck at dark and cut loose on the hooting and they gobbled on command till we left and it was pitch black dark. Thought I was in NE for a bit.

The boys got there birds and that was the best info we could ever have gotten with the kids.

Sorry if it didnt help alot, but seemed like a good time to refresh the memory. I really dont believe these southern birds to be into that evening gobbling. I think the mood just has to hit em.

[Woodsman4God]

Kamski has a knight and hale crow call that had birds fired up at night when I couldnt get a response from my hootin stick, albeit these were northern birds.

The other thing I want to try is a silent dog whistle, I read about it somewhere and the guy said it worked great, the turkeys can hear and will gobble to it and best of all since you cant hear it it doesnt interrupt your hearing and possibly missing a gobble

[Neill_Prater]

Ronnie, my experience has pretty much been the same as yours, both in Alabama and Mississippi as well as here in Missouri. I think it is just something about the nature of Easterns, so much so that I rarely attempt to roost a bird when hunting Easterns, if I am depending soley upon sound. I sometimes am able to roost birds here based on where I spot them shortly before sunset, but I seldom hear one gobble. When I'm there in Alabama, I don't even bother anymore.

The one notable exception I can recall here is when a friend and I were scouting a new area many years ago and a thunderstorm rolled in shortly before dark, causing a couple of birds to sound off repeatedly. We'd have killed them the next morning too, if I hadn't let my buddy convince me to come in a different way to save some walking. 

All that said, when hunting in Kansas, where most of the birds are Rios, or Rio hybrids, anything loud seems to work, whether it is a coyote howl, box call, or even honking the horn. Neill

[Shotgun]

Gobbling has worked best for me, but its still rare to get a response.

[Spring Creek Calls]

Ive had the best luck locating roosted birds owl hooting with my voice. Next best has been the crow call. Nothing will work every time, but the above has worked for me on Eastern's in many states, Merriam's in SD and Rio's in KS.

[maustypsu]

Roosted one last year with a Peacock call the evening before opening day here in NC.

Gobble, hawk screech, peacock call and the old truck horn have worked for me in the past.  Not so much with a crow, woodpecker or owl call so it might be that they really need something different in the evenings to get them fired up.