What are some "tricks you use?"

[Bamaslayer757]

Couple of things...I can run my diaphragm and natural mouth calling while running a box call to imitate a small flock of hens which works well.

Another is throw in some jake yelps on a bird with hens and you just might get him to get a little jealous.

Too many people will just yell at a gobbler when he's close...I will switch to whines and purrs with both the diaphragm and natural mouth to really work em in close.

Lastly, too many people do the mechanical yelps or competition yelps...listen to a real hen and she will break her yelps up in sequence and have a delayed note or two...makes it wayyy more realistic and really will drive an old southern bird wild if you break up your yelps with clucks or delays etc

[avidnwoutdoorsman]

My best tactic is to bumble and stumble around in the woods until I find a turkey so dang dumb and so dang, well, looking for love, that my calls sound good and he is willing and dumb enough to come in and die.  Just have to wear out some shoe leather to find 'em.

When I get desperate, I also employ the tactic of calling in such a way that I sound like a hooker on Friday night that's late on the rent.


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This thread and this hooker comment made me think of this video.... it's called the Nikki Minaj.... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3fKQSCmrY

I suppose too, you are talking solo, because if I am with someone, I will start crawling on all 4 away calling as I go if he's hung up out of site. Play hard to get ya know.

[btomlin]

The silent treatment has produced a lot of the stubborn turkeys for me over the years like many other hunters.  I also employ some hen conversations.  I have had good success with running multiple calls at once.  A mouth call and slate or box in a conversation, not just noise.  Start out with some clucks/purrs between a couple ladies conversing about life, maybe eventually get into a raspy trash talking jerry springer "I take care of my man better than you take care of my man" type deal, and then go into "we don't need no stinking man" quiet silence.  It has been a real producer on the knuckleheads. 

[Meleagris gallopavo]

Start out with some clucks/purrs between a couple ladies conversing about life, maybe eventually get into a raspy trash talking jerry springer "I take care of my man better than you care of my man" type deal, and then go into "we don't need no stinking man" quiet silence.  It has been a real producer on the knuckleheads. 

Wonderful analogy!

[Meleagris gallopavo]

I don't think this is much of a trick, but if I have had a chance to pattern and roost birds here, I set up between where they are and where they "have been" wanting to go.

[ChesterCopperpot]

Soft quavers and whistles.


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[GobbleNut]

The best trick I have ever found is simply finding a gobbler that wants to die.  Find one of those and you usually don't have to worry about any other tricks.   

[hotspur]

Switch calls , is a good  trick

[shaman]

My biggest trick is to bring a book on the slow days.  I'll call maybe every 15 minutes. A dead morning at flydown can suddenly get hot at 9 or 10.

Another trick is a version of that. When it is windy in the afternoon, I'll go out and work a loud box call every 15 minutes or so and throw the call as far as I can.  Sometimes it takes 3-4 hours for a gobbler to come in, but one often does.

Other tricks I have used successfully:

I have gotten up and halfed the distance between me and a recalcitrant gob.  He came in like his life depended on it.

I regularly use a pushpin call and give an angry purr to a hen that comes in on me.  It usually does not scare off the gob that's coming in, but it makes the hen go away.

I've done end-arounds where I move out and around a gob and hens and set up ahead of them.

I have used my deer blinds to hunt turkeys in the rain. This is a heck of a lot better than staying home.

[Tom007]

Silence is Golden on the finicky ones. I call very little on a regular day. If I know a tough one is in my area, I will do soft tree yelps right at daybreak, fly down cackle in leaves with real wing. If he gobbles once, I am done. I will scratch leaves, fluff wings, and sit pretty much silent. Tough birds have been hunted, and know the game. Natural scratching, wing fluffs, and silence have brought these guys in for me. I have sat for 3 or more hours to get one, but it does pay off......great thread....

[WildTigerTrout]

Switch calls , is a good  trick

^ This.  I killed one of my best gobblers with this trick.  Oh yeah I also moved three times on him.  Took about 2 1/2 hours from first gobble to gun shot!  What a blast!

[WildTigerTrout]

The best tricks are really no tricks at all.  Sit still.  No I mean REALLY sit still!  Also Patience, turkeys don't wear watches.  They are in no hurry they have all day to do whatever it is they do.  I messed up more in my early years turkey hunting by not doing either one of these things very well.   One very effective trick I did learn though was scratching in the leaves!  Pulled my heaviest(23 pounds) Pa. gobbler in the last 75 yards with that one. That was the first time I heard the Spit and Drum, WOW!!

[albrubacker]

This thread and this hooker comment made me think of this video.... it's called the Nikki Minaj.... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3fKQSCmrY

I suppose too, you are talking solo, because if I am with someone, I will start crawling on all 4 away calling as I go if he's hung up out of site. Play hard to get ya know.
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[WTNUT]

The best trick I have ever found is simply finding a gobbler that wants to die.  Find one of those and you usually don't have to worry about any other tricks.   

I agree 100%.  I was just reading the responses,  and I only have one trick.   And, it is walk and call until you finally find a bird that wants to run in and die quickly.   

[eggshell]

This thread and this hooker comment made me think of this video.... it's called the Nikki Minaj.... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3fKQSCmrY

I suppose too, you are talking solo, because if I am with someone, I will start crawling on all 4 away calling as I go if he's hung up out of site. Play hard to get ya know.
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