Gobbler calls

[kenfa03]

Anybody use them? Thinking about trying one for locater call. Private west Texas land.

[atoler]

a gobble is normally a last ditch effort on my end, if I've tried every trick I know on a bird, sometimes I will gobble at him. Goes for calling one in or getting one to gobble. be very careful with overdoing it.

I gobble on a mouthcall and thats what I've always used. a few days ago, a friend gave me a haint that he couldn't figure out. It was pretty easy for me to learn and sounds pretty good. From that I got the idea of why not a duck or goose call? so on the ride home from work tonight, I grabbed my lanyard, fluttered my tongue into an rnt shortbarrel, a custom double reed, and a short reed goose call. I tried recording it, but the echo was bad. Im pretty sure the waterfowl calls sounded just as good as the haint, although I won't know til i can record it tomorrow.

[kenfa03]

a gobble is normally a last ditch effort on my end, if I've tried every trick I know on a bird, sometimes I will gobble at him. Goes for calling one in or getting one to gobble. be very careful with overdoing it.

I gobble on a mouthcall and thats what I've always used. a few days ago, a friend gave me a haint that he couldn't figure out. It was pretty easy for me to learn and sounds pretty good. From that I got the idea of why not a duck or goose call? so on the ride home from work tonight, I grabbed my lanyard, fluttered my tongue into an rnt shortbarrel, a custom double reed, and a short reed goose call. I tried recording it, but the echo was bad. Im pretty sure the waterfowl calls sounded just as good as the haint, although I won't know til i can record it tomorrow.

Good deal. Was thinking mainly for shock gobble purposes.

[chrisg2709]

The Haint is also a good call. It takes practice to make it sound right, but when it does...
It is the most accurate sounding gobble call I have ever heard.

[rpinks]

The gobbler in my photo came to run a jake off that answered the haint. It was the 2nd day of season 2012 Kentucky webster county. First time I ever used a gobbler call 9:30 am. Like to try new things.I probobly just got lucky however thats ok with me.

[kenfa03]

I may get me a Haint and try it.

[chatterbox]

I think a gobbler call is one of the most underrated calls in the spring woods.
You move in on a dominant birds home turf and see what happens.....
It is just a vocalization instead of a visual aid like a strutting gobbler decoy.
Why does the decoy work, and people don't think the gobbler call will work??
Gobblers have 2 emotions in the spring. Horny and jealous.
If trying to play off one emotion doesn't work, why not try the other, or some combo of the 2?

[scoot12]

I think a gobbler call is one of the most underrated calls in the spring woods.
You move in on a dominant birds home turf and see what happens.....
It is just a vocalization instead of a visual aid like a strutting gobbler decoy.
Why does the decoy work, and people don't think the gobbler call will work??
Gobblers have 2 emotions in the spring. Horny and jealous.
If trying to play off one emotion doesn't work, why not try the other, or some combo of the 2?

Great points Mike,  I gobble on Scotts Gibson and will get a gobble when nothing else works.  Scoot

[deadbuck]

The Hale Fire gobble call sounds better to me than the haint, and it is half the price. However, both are difficult to master.

[Duke0002]

Anyone try the Flextone "Thunder Gobble"?

[magicman]

I bought a Haint this year and I like it a lot. It does take some practice for it to sound right. I'm looking forward to seeing how it works this season.

[redleg06]

I can do a decent (I guess that's a relative term) gobble call with a diaphram call but I havent used it as much as I should. 

I just moved to Bama last year and havent tried it here yet but out in Texas (where I'm from and grew up hunting) I have used a gobble call as a locator in the evenings when roosting them and also on a few occassions with field birds that I couldnt get out of a field with hen calls.  Kind of a last chance type situation when I was low on time and needed to make something happen.

Ive never had much luck sounding good on any of the factory made gobbler calls but i think it's a nice trick to have in the book. 

Being that turkey's have a pecking order, I think gobbling could either work for or against you depending on the dominance of the bird you're calling to. A more dominant bird might respond real well to it while a subordinate/ submissive bird might do just the opposite because he's afraid of a fight.  That's generally my thought process behind only using it sparingly on field birds because I can see their reaction to it. 

[SouthEastNC]

i just put a rubberband around my double-sided boxcall and shake it.

Have only done it a couple times and only on private land where I'm the only one hunting... one time I poked my head around a bend in the road and saw a gobbler strutting for 2 hens about 75 yards away. I'd call and he'd gobble and turn and look my way, but he wasn't leaving those hens and they didn't seem to mind me enough to come check things out. After a while they turned to walk off into the woods. I figured I'd go for broke and did a gobble on the boxcall. He fired a couple a back and came back out of the woods to check me out... once he got close enough I dropped him.

[sixbird]

I use a gobble tube quite often. If I get a gobbler that just won't come in but he's interested in the hen that's me, a little uncertainty about his status will sometimes bring him over that hill or out from behind that brush...Jealousy is a wonderful thing sometimes...