What are some "tricks you use?"

[longbow59]

Quit calling!

[Uncle Tom]

22-250    J/K

Now that's funny. If you can't laugh at that you need to leave. Anyway to answer the question, these days I don't answer a gobbler much. In other words, when I strike one I just wait two or three minutes with no sound. If he gobbles more while I'm waiting I stay silent. After a minute or two I'll just make a plain hen yelp with a few clucks and purrs thrown in. Every time he gobbles I wait at least one to two minutes to answer him. Or I may just ignore him and make quiet clucks, purrs, and leaf scratching. Basically sending the message that I'm not overly interested in him, and he will have to come find me. Drives a lot of birds nuts. Exactly spot on there, that is all that it takes...clucks and purrs....killed one last year that came all way across a huge pasture to few clucks purrs...first saw him at 200+ yds and he came directly to me with no more calls once I saw him....they can hear a cluck at several hundred yards and scratching in leaves also. That hearing is amazing. I like to make a cluck trying to cut him off at the end of his gobble...believe he can't tell exactly where it came from if timed just right...especially if he coming in and like a ways off....hit him at very end of the gobble...then go quiet....gun up and ready...deadly tactic.


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[Turkeytider]

It`s not a " trick " I suppose in the purest sense of the word, but PATIENCE. Even if they don`t come in, they know where you are if you`ve had any kind of conversation with them. They might wander off with hens, for example. Often, not always, but often they`ll be back. Took about an hour  and a half this past Friday.

[Kylongspur88]

22-250    J/K

I'm more of a 5.56 with a 30 round mag guy myself, but to each their own.

[Yoder409]

I really don't use ANY "tricks".

  It ain't a "trick" if it's something you've found to be an effective method through decades of trying different things.  I have a bag FULL of "effective methods".  But, like someone else said........... If I told you........well...........you know............

[eddie234]

I stay seated for at least 30 minutes after my last calling sequence. Been bust more than one time by a Tom coming in silent.


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[wchadw]

I stay seated for at least 30 minutes after my last calling sequence. Been bust more than one time by a Tom coming in silent.


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i always do this.  if i decide to move or quit i stop and look at watch and wait 30 minutes

[Turkeytider]

I stay seated for at least 30 minutes after my last calling sequence. Been bust more than one time by a Tom coming in silent.


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That`s a good thing to do. Last Friday I`d been conversing with a bird that shut up and moved off with hens. About an hour to an hour and a half later I heard what I`m pretty sure was him gobble quite a ways off ( had to be well over 100 yards ). I yelped to him to let him know I was still there. Not a sound, or at least if he answered, I didn`t hear him. About 10 minutes or so later he gobbled again. About 30 yards behind me! He came all that way as quiet as a mouse. It worked out that he went home with me. Lesson: Patience kills ( at least sometimes! ).

[WorkingBirds]

When all else fails, put an amplifier on the feeder motor...   

LOL

[Sir-diealot]

I stay seated for at least 30 minutes after my last calling sequence. Been bust more than one time by a Tom coming in silent.


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Works good when calling predators too.

[RiverRoost]

If I've been sitting and blind calling for a while and get ready to go I tell myself "15more minutes" then whenever I get ready to get up I usually do a short soft Yelp then follow it with a quick short cut just to test the area in case a bird had heard my calls and was coming in silent to maybe solicite a gobble from him that way I don't stand up with a bird somewhere close.

[bigriverbum]

if you have to rip your own underwear off to wipe your azz make sure to put the waistband on some barbed wire fence for a good laugh

[Muzzy61]

Go with your first thought or gut instinct. Two many times I've over analyzed or over thought things and talked myself out of doing the right thing.

[Happy]

When shooting 12 gauge, 3.5" shells, make sure yer pinch of Copenhagen is in your left cheek. For you right handed fellows anyways.

[3chunter]

Scratch....scratch, scratch.  In the leaves that is.  Lol.