Winter Turkey Talk--- FINISHING CALLS.

[quavers59]

What are your (go to) calls when that gobbler is just out of sight and coming in or just in sight?  For me - it is Quavers on a true slate. Just 3 quick- but short purrs that are not too loud and not too soft. If it is raining or has been- I use the - WHIT-WHIT from my voice box. I have never taken a turkey with a mouth caller and had to learn to form the whit-whit and other calls from the middle neck area. Takes some practice. What do members here use in the Spring?

[paboxcall]

Mostly silence, or some occasional leaf scratching. If I call, it would be a soft cluck or two on the mouth call, or like you couple purrs on my Snodgrass peg/slate.

[wvlimbhanger]

I typically like to crank them up, get them coming and go silent as well.  Every now and then I un across a bird that needs a little to keep him coming.  I usually purr and cluck on a pot call or make soft 3 note yelps with a mouth call.  A little leaf scratching as well.

[Happy]

Depends on my position and the mood of the bird. Preferably he isn't in sight until he is in killing range. If he can see a long ways on the approach I play it pretty coy. Only calling enough to steer him in and only doing that when his vision is temporarily obstructed.  Now I have been known to have a Tom gobbling at 30 yards hard enough to choke himself before I pull the trigger. Just can't help myself. 

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[Greg Massey]

It has a lot to do with what the turkey is telling me and if he's coming to my calling...Mood of the bird will tell you a lot in the amount and kind of calling you need to do...i don't do a lot of this TV show type calling at birds. Slate and box are my main calls...just not a mouth call guy...but i do use one on those windy days for more volume...

[silvestris]

Morgan Frictionwood type caller is my go to call for turkeys in close, along with leaf scratching. Use the Frictionwood more when I have been working a bird for an extended period of time. If a turkey is coming in steady I don't call too much as I would rather he "hunt" me. I say turkey because sometimes I am calling to a hen. Sometimes I may know she has a gobbler with her and sometimes I don't. I like to find out tho so I call to her if that's all I got.

Also have used a kee kee several times to "break" a hesitant bird to come the last few yards. I kee kee best on a mouth diaphragm. Hooks Phantom 2 works for me and I almost always have some kind of diaphragm in my mouth while working a turkey. Can also use the mouth call to stop or help "steer" a turkey the last few yards if needed with a soft cluck or 2.

Good advice, however everything is situational and all too often one doesn't recognize the situation until it is too late to respond properly.

[wvmntnhick]

I tend to use a diaphragm to finish birds. Don't like the extra motion involved with other calls. Also, I tend to call too much in the eyes of many. I'll call to a bird as long as he wants to gobble. If he shuts up, I'll do the same. Last spring the birds hung up below my neice and I and decided to strut in a clearing. Made 2 purrs and scratched some leaves and they broke strut and walked right into our laps. Shame she missed him at 12 feet. And then again at 20 yards. Fun either way though. Just depends on the bird(s) though.

[Spitten and drummen]

a strong dose of silence with a soft cluck now and then and leaf scratching if he is out of sight.

[Bowguy]

a strong dose of silence with a soft cluck now and then and leaf scratching if he is out of sight.

On the money

[HFultzjr]

All good advice, but my favorite call is:
Click.............Boom!

[dejake]

one cluck, to get his head up (if needed).  Once they commit, I rarely call.

[guesswho]

Last thing they usually hear from me is when I tell them in a normal voice "don't put your head up".   They normally never hear the I told you so.

[quavers59]

I sometimes take my Morgan Frictionwood out as well. It is semi-retired as I don't want to lose that.