Fight scenes

[Bowguy]

Was thinking bout the kee kee post n something not talked about too much is something that's not traditional but may be one of the most exciting ways to get a gobbler running in. I've actually had em running so hard they had to hurdle sticks like OJ through the airport-for the older folks.
For the newbies, everything in the woods imo should start out slow so don't do this all the time or right away.
Let's say though he's w hens n leaving. Different techniques can be employed but one I've used over 30 years successfully is fight scenes.
If the bird hangs or is leaving I'll maybe putt a couple times to get attention, instantly rolling over to fight purrs w by hand n excited yelping/cutting w a mouth call. At the same time I beat the leaves w my boot. You gotta pull this off to work.
If it's going to almost instantly you'll know by double/triple gobbles. Within minutes the birds will show. Sometimes hens in the lead, just be still n let em pass.
I've done this n had birds see my brother n I n still come in to become part of a double kill.
Great technique if used only on occasion. The gobbling is insane

[Bowguy]

I've used this call a lot too. Got to use it when the situation warrants or a last ditch effort, but it work. Not always but nothing works all the time. Sometimes the gobblers (or flock) comes in all excited and calling, sometimes they just come in quiet and walking.

The biggest myth about the fight purr call is you need 2 calls to do it. That is total, absolute, unequivocal BULL SH!T. I think that started when K&H came out with their 2 push-pin fighting purr calls. Marketing you know. I do my fight purrs on a pot type call using 1 pot and 1 peg. It works. Two call are not necessary, the turkeys have told me so. Arron Warbritton does the Cabelas Spring Thunder where they show hunts about every week once the season starts. I was watching one from last season the other morning and Arron used the fight purrs to call in a gobbler. He used just 1 pot call and one peg. He killed that bird and I have do mine the same way.

Most times I just do the aggressive purring with no wing beating sounds. Too much movement for my taste. Turkeys will dance around each other while purring aggressively. Sort of sizing each other up and not be really fighting. I also do what I call a quiet fight purr. I saw 2 hens one time dancing around each other in a half strut. They were purring aggressively but the purrs weren't very loud.

I mostly fight purr on my Frictionwood call. Just like the way the purrs sound on it, the most realistic I can make. Both quiet contented purrs and aggressive purrs. I do use a pot call now and then to fight purr and get a bit louder on that if I want to.

I like a striker that has a good amount of grip to it for making the aggressive purrs. I will also hold the striker a bit higher to get more purr out of it.

It works fairly well in the right situation. I have turned gobblers around, called them back once they passed me, and called them away from hens with it. Called in the whole flock at times too. And I have tried it with no good result.

Good point about movement while less suspicious I don't intentionally let em see me. After a few seconds I stop the foot thrashing but we all know how good leaf sounds can be.

[Greg Massey]

It's amazing sometimes what turkey's will do coming to a call...Two people can drive turkey nuts with mixing sounds together and i agree sometimes make them come running. Mixing calls sometimes makes you sound like multiple birds and can really get the birds fired up and make that old boss hen mad...As you said stated  calling low and slow and as the day goes along pickup your calling with more excitement and volume. Sometimes that excitement gets these birds fired back up after the hens have left him going to nest, that 9 - 12 clock sweet time i call it....that why i say build you a couple of good blinds , so as it get's up in the morning go to that blind and take a break and see if you can get that gobbler to respond to your calling...it's all about getting him fired back up...

[stinkpickle]

This works great for me when the toms are still bunched up early in the season.

[MK M GOBL]

While I was scouting for an upcoming season I watched 2 toms fighting, and fight purring, clucks and all going on wings beating and necks wrapped up, as soon as the fight broke the loser ran off and the winner walked around half strutting and gobbling for a while. Think he was telling all the ladies "I'm the boss" and the other birds to watch out. When my season came up I setup on his ridge and carried on the same way, used my wing, fighting purrs on the slate and gobbling on my diaphragm, killed that bird in about ten minutes he came in running and gobbling and I put him down, he was a boss!

I have used the technique a more than few times and had luck but never like that bird.

MK M GOBL

[Rzrbac]

I do my fighting purrs on a mouth call and flap a hat and rake leaves. It is very effective at times.  I usually throw in a gobble or two, kind of like grunts and snort wheezes when rattling.  I've watched several gobblers fight. A few times they were surrounded by jakes. The jakes would break into gobbles after the big birds would break free from their neck wraps and flap up in the air trying to spur each other. That's when the jakes would Gobble. That's the scene I try to replicate and it will certainly work. The only problem is you are making a ton of noise and sometimes it's hard to hear a gobble if it's not close. If you do hear one, get ready, pretty good chance he's coming quick.

[turkaholic]

Yes, this is a great tactic, especially in early season. I add some gobbles from my Red Wolf gobble tube and it drives them crazy. Good to think out of the box and not be afraid to try something different.

[TauntoHawk]

One of the first birds I kill early in my turkey hunting I got to witness an awesome display of turkey behavior that included a fight.

The morning roost was compromised by a pack of coyotes and the birds booked clean across the farm as soon as their feet touched the ground. My buddy and I made a three quarters of a mile Loop to position ourselves in front again and set up. The dominant bird strutted for a flock of hens for an hour in a cattle pasture not caring one lick for our sweet calls until two Jakes worked in and began gobbling. I guess the thought of one more hen didn't do it for him until he was losing that hen to a couple of imateur jocks. The bird ran in and pounded the living snot out of those two Jakes 50yds Infront of us. Sounded like a sake of potatoes hitting the ground with every kick they purred and gobbled and trashed while the hens  egged it on with excited cutting. It caused such a racket that another bird a few hundred yards up in some timber began gobbling at the fight and coming in at what sounded like a run by the distance he was closing. By the time the jakes had taken enough we had one bird strutting in victory out in front and another pacing across the pasture at our backs in challenge. They intended to meet in the middle but we're so focused on the pecking order they hadn't notice the guy crawling closer and just before they squared off I dumped  the first bird.

Only my 3rd longbeard and by far the most exciting hunt to that date. He was a heavy joker and had bruises already forming on his breast meat by the time I cut it out later that morning.

I've successfully used fighting calls a few times since then but I always try and remember and emulate that fight when I do.

I was calling for another hunter on a wounded vet hunt last year and had the hunter spoke a bird at 19yds trying to get in position for the shot. I was able to get that bird to stop, turn around and come back in by gobbling and fighting purring on a mouth call.

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