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Started by Life of Riley, July 20, 2016, 07:39:27 AM
Quote from: silvestris on July 20, 2016, 11:12:50 PMThat video may be as big a bunch of crap as I have ever seen. Contented hen turkeys cluck and purr almost constantly when in the presence of other hens and the gobbler recognizes that everything is alright over there. The "contest" cluck and purr is designed to attract the judge and rarely mimics the sound of a hen in the wild, especially in volume and frequently in delivery. I have no reservations in clucking and purring often, but the human will not hear my cluck and purr farther than 25 yards, while the gobbler will hear it at 200 yards and know he is likely to be safe if he responds. Most purring I hear on a slate caller sounds like a cricket and I don't know what most purring I hear from a mouth caller sounds like, but it is seldom that of a contented hen.
Quote from: GobbleNut on July 22, 2016, 06:06:46 PMSome of us say the video has merit,...and some say it is hogwash. Both points of view have some validity. Suffice it to say that the cluck and purr are sounds that turkeys make in a variety of situations, and which have a variety of meanings to other turkeys when communicated back and forth. A hunter can use the cluck and purr to call turkeys in,...and just as assuredly, that same hunter can use a variation of that same call in the wrong situation and send the turkeys they are trying to call scurrying off towards the next time zone.
Quote from: GobbleNut on July 23, 2016, 01:02:20 PMI can confidently state that anyone that hunts Merriams turkeys in the mountain ranges of southern NM who thinks they are going to very often call in gobblers by sitting somewhere and softly clucking and purring is most likely going to sit and watch the grass grow and the seasons change a long time before a gobbler shows up. I'd say you're right about that. It's not even a great technique to use here in the Northeast. My reference to the cluck and purr is as a finishing call (if needed).Per my earlier post on the subject,...there are indeed times when the cluck and purr is a useful,...and sometimes quite important call to use when turkey hunting. ...But there are very definitely different meanings of the cluck and purr in its/their various forms,...and it is best to know what you are saying when you use them. I agree 100%.
Quote from: g8rvet on July 26, 2016, 02:52:03 PMFirst of all, he is a RUGGED AMERICAN HUNTER. And he has a really butch name JASON CRUISE (it might as well be Bourne).You guys are not on the web, so you don't know as much as him. (okay, I guess technically I am reading this on the web, and found it on the web, so you are actually on the web BUT you may be an American and a Hunter, but are you really a RUGGED AMERICAN HUNTER?). It was Abraham Lincoln that said "75% of what you read on the internet is false".Also, 68.39% of all statistics are made up on the spot. If you sit and whisper "Here turkey, turkey" in the woods with lots of birds, you will eventually call in a turkey (and by "call in" I mean a Tom will wander by in range, and when I say Tom I mean one that is hard of hearing, partially blind in one eye and slightly on the Forest Gump side of the intelligence spectrum, on a turkey scale, not a human scale, because Forest would actually be smart if he had been a turkey)