Most Butchered?

[unclerick]

I have heard some really bad box calling in the woods,

But I want speak to much about how butcherd some guys calling is since I can do a bang up job of butchering a call myself, I know this cause my hunting buddy always gives me this funny look everytime I run a mouth call, box or my pot.   

[WildTigerTrout]

I have heard some really, really bad calls from REAL wild turkeys! IMO the plain old yelp gets butchered the most by turkey hunters using mouth calls.

[Cove]

1. Cutting- its individual notes- not a constant up and down.
2. Diaphram
3. Unless it's really really horrible I'll keep quiet. But usually its assumed I do the calling when I go with someone.

[Shotgun]

1) all
2) mouth call
3) yes, I typically do the calling unless with someone better and then I'll stay quiet.

[lightsoutcalls]

1)  All calls equally as butchered
2) Diaphragm (on this particular hunt)
3) I tried to be subtle, but he didn't get it.

I was invited to hunt with a guy after a charity hunt last year.  He bragged about how he had heard birds all over the property just a few days before and what a great place it was.  I began to be suspicious when we sat in a treeline with chest high grass in front of us.  I placed the decoys at about 20 yards, but was unable to see them when we sat down. It gets worse.  The "'guide" talked to me and the other hunter as if we were in a crowded room LOUD.  Within a few minutes after sun-up, I was already wishing I had stayed in bed.  He was proud of his new "mouth call" as he said he broke his slate call... another bad sign.  About time for fly-down, our "guide" started "cutting" as if he were trying to get the attention of some zombie bird half mile away.  I could only close my eyes and think to myself "no... please, no..."  He could get louder when the birds didn't respond... I don't know why they wouldn't respond...  Well, no birds in the first 45 minutes of calling like some kind of wacked out hen on crack, so we moved our setup.  We walked through the woods listening to him tell of "inventions" that he had come up with over the years... OMG!  We sat down in a place that just looked "turkey" if you know what I mean.  We were near a creek bank with a view of an open wheat field just inches high across the creek.  The incessant cutting of the "crack hen" started up almost as soon as we sat down.  I had tried to call on my friction calls when he was between breaths, hoping against hope that he would try to call a bit softer, a bit less frequently and with sounds that somewhat resembled a turkey.  NO DICE.  He had his routine down and he was going full bore.  For awhile I sat behind a large tree out of sight of him and pounded my head with one of my strikers trying to distract myself from the noise coming from a few yards away.  That wasn't working either.  I motioned that I was going to slip across the creek and up an incline to look across another field.  I must say, by this time I was almost hoping I might slip in the mud, fall face first and drown in the calf high water... but I made it across safely.  I got to a place where I had a huge dead cottonwood behind me that blocked any view between he and I.  I think I prayed for a sudden downpour or something so we could head back to the lodge.  I did see a hen skirt the edge of the field out of their sight, so there was some redeeming qualities of the morning, but alas, no turkeys were harmed in this adventure.  I was ever so grateful that we had to be back by 9AM to get cleaned up and ready for church (Sunday morning hunt).  I don't think we all would have returned alive if we had been hunting until noon. 

[Eric Gregg]

1. the kee-kee run
2. mouth call
3. yes, I would tell someone and hope someone would tell me.
My goal is to kill turkeys and not ruin my valuable time in the woods.

[decoykrvr]

On numerous occasions I've gotten really mad at an imagined hunter calling badly, ie. too loudly, too much, and w/ a bad cadence, only to have a real hen or jake walk in.   Most turkey callers who use a diaphram badly, unlike an idiot with a box call, don't call incessantly.  I've encountered too many horrible callers with a box call that walk through the woods scratching, scraping, and dragging on it without pause to even listen for a response.  I was telling an old turkey hunting friend about a totally inept, and I use the term loosely, hunter that I encountered on private property, where he didn't have permission to trespass, walking and wailing on a box call.  My friend commented, "I hope you ran him off, but didn't say anything critical about his calling abilities or educate him about any aspects of turkey hunting."  Enough said!!

[El Pavo Grande]

1.  From what I've heard, it's a close race between the yelp and cutting.  While calling doesn't have to be competition quality to kill turkeys I would say the most used, so therefore butchered is the yelp.  "YO YO YO YO YO YO...."

2.  Hunting predominately public land, I would say it's also a close race between types of calls.  I have heard some really bad calling, that usually consists of being too loud and too often.  I would rank from the worst to not very good... diaphragm, pot, and box.  

Even if hearing someone fairly proficient on a call, it's rare that I can't distinguish it as a hunter.  I know it's debatable for some comparing box calls and pot calls, but I think the easiest to master and sound "true turkey" on is a good box call.  Second, pot calls are the next easiest to master, and mouth calls ranking the hardest between the three.  Now, that would change if considering tube calls
and trumpet calls.

3.  The few guys I routinely hunt with most of the time can call very well, and most others don't do much of the calling, if any.  If they do and it's bad, I'll usually just suggest we keep the calling at a minimum.   Guess it depends on the circumstances of the hunt.