silent birds

[dfresh55]

hey guys, im new here and am very excited to ahve joined and learn some new tricks! 

so this weekend i took my cousin out for youth season and we herd no gobbles at all ina very very turky rich envioronment, didnt have much time to scout as its far away but when i did i seen awsome signs of turkey!  Ther were absolutly no gobbles in the am no shock gobbles of any kind!

We did get on strutter to come in but he strolled in silent and didnt strutt untill he passed by and seen the hen decoy...

Any advice for those public silent birds? why so silent when couple miles down the road there vocal as can be already (im in missouri).

[guesswho]

Any advice for those public silent birds? why so silent when couple miles down the road there vocal as can be already (im in missouri).

Be persistent.  Hunt them as long and often as you can.  Mid day and mid week could be the ticket.  As far as the gobbling go's, sounds like turkeys being turkeys.  Could have just been one of those days.  They could have been hammering it the next day.   Just stay after them.

[dfresh55]

thanks! yeah they were silent sat and sunday the woods were empty other than us too for some strange reason.  sunday it was thunderstorms here as well and we went to the field hoping for the best lol 

[TnRidgeRunner]

Sounds like your doing it right...just keep after them. Try your best to let them gobble on their own so you can know the actual temp of the bird and then mimic them in the tone you portray. keep us updated in how your hunts go!!!

[dfresh55]

thanks guys will do!  so just one more question i hear people say call calm and call agressive.. the calm i s self explanitory lol but what do they mean when they say agressive like every 5-10 mins? or just more agressive cuts and yelps?  sorry for the newb question!

[Gooserbat]

Combination of both.  To me aggressive calling means loud obnoxious yelps and some (very little) cutting more frequently.  That said a plain 5 note yelp and patience will kill more turkeys than all the fancy stuff combined.

[appalachianstruttstopper]

I personally like silent public birds if I know where they are. Thats a plus IMO. Everyone else that hunts around you will only hear a boom if you know there are turkeys in your area and they don't. I like to only hear a couple of gobbles from a bird that has alot of people around, cause the less noise he makes, the less likely he is to gobble up another hunter or a hen.