Roosting birds in the evening

[Tomcat655]

I have often tried but never really had success rooting in the evening . I feel it would give an upper hand to the following mornings setup. What's the best way to make them gobble late?

[Swampchickin234]

A quick short blast from the truck horn and a yote howler call have given the most success in the evening.  Laugh at me if you want, but ill swear buy it, if you're in hearing distance from a highway, and one of those high pitched street bikes lays on it right at fly up time, I have confidence I'm fixing to hear a bird lol.   That truck horn has helped many a turkey get killed


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[Tomcat655]

 I have never used yote calls but have hear them gobble at it in the past.  And my dad is a believer in the truck horn but he has never roosted birds .. He is a run a gun morning for as long as I can remember ha but I'll always try something once .

[ltprod]

I let nature do it for me!!

[owlhoot]

ah let me think    oh ya ,  OWLHOOTIN works purty good!

[J Hook Max]

 I use owl hooting. Be careful and not get too close. You can ruin the next morning's hunt. Happened to me on more than one occasion.

[trkehunr93]

Owl hoots work.  I hoot with my own voice, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.   Sometimes they do it on their own.  Sometimes they don't, just depends on their mood. 

[njdevilsb]

We are fortunate enough to hunt land that has a lot of open fields as well as woods so usually our evening scouting consists of binoculars and a spotting scope since 99% of the time they are out in the fields.

[Bowguy]

Fly up cackle on a high pitched box call. Gotta be in the woods at the right time n unseen though. They ain't gobbling looking at ya

[silvestris]

First the noise must be made at the right time.  You have about a ten minute window.  The best sounds are either (not both) a two note Barred Owl or a fly-down cackle one time.  If nothing gobbles, more noise can only raise his suspicion for the morrow.  As for determining the ten minute window, you should find a high point and say nothing.  One day, one will gobble.  Note the time and check that time against the sunset tables for your area.  Realizing that sunset occurs a minute or two later with each passing day, you adjust the time that you owl or cackle.  With time you will not need a watch; you will come to feel the right time.

[dirt road ninja]

I hunt in the evenings, so I'm usually pretty close to them at fly up. If I do try and make them gobble after fly up I owl hoot or gobble.

[okiegobblers]

Have had regular success with an owl call after fly up.

[darron]

cutting fast and loud on a friction call...

I also agree about the window. I find I have better luck the later it gets. Literally 20-30 min after sunset.

[GobbleNut]

Evening (and morning)Roosting tactics are an art unto themselves.  As has already been stated, methodology and timing are crucial.  Successful roosting in the evening is also very much a function of where you are hunting. 

Some places,...and with some subspecies,...evening roosting can either be amazingly productive,...or it can be a waste of time (although I have hunted few places where it would not work at all).   The trick is determining which of those is the case for the area you are hunting.

In hunting unfamiliar places, large areas, and areas with widely scattered turkey populations, being able to locate roosted birds by using these tactics can be absolutely critical to a successful hunt,...especially if you are limited to just a few days of hunting. 

Out here in the west especially, where turkeys are often widely scattered over large areas,...often hundreds of thousands of acres,...a guy could spend an entire season listening for volunteer gobbling without ever hearing a bird.  Not because the birds are not gobbling somewhere, but because they are not where you are listening.

Learning effective roosting tactics in those cases is critically important to your success.