doeboy
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Post by doeboy on Jan 23, 2014 10:46:53 GMT -5
Hey everyone,
Looking to get into turkey hunting and was gonna get a call soon to get ready for the spring. Anyone have any advice of what a good beginner call would be to use? Thanks |
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Post by GS1 on Jan 23, 2014 10:54:10 GMT -5
I'm kind of partial to friction calls (slate, glass, ect) and they are excellent calls for beginners. My 5 year old even sounds good enough to call a bird in, but he gets lots of practice. The drawback is that they require two hands to operate.
A good push pin call will put gobblers in gun range and can be mounted in various places to allow you a free had while operating it.
All you really need is something that will cluck and purr consistently.
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Post by goosepondmonster on Jan 23, 2014 11:01:10 GMT -5
You have plenty of time to practice. Get a mouth call and learn how to use it. It wouldn't hurt to get a friction call either. Using two different calls can be helpful in fooling a gobbler into thinking there is more than one hen in an area.
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Post by schall53 on Jan 23, 2014 11:04:30 GMT -5
Box call are the easiest to master. You can make virtually make any call with a little practice, cluck, purr, yelp, cackle, etc. My favorite is Lynch 101.
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Post by dbd870 on Jan 23, 2014 12:01:05 GMT -5
I started with a box call; but hung them up after I got a slate.
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Post by Woody Williams on Jan 23, 2014 13:33:49 GMT -5
I started with a box call; but hung them up after I got a slate. ^^^^ THIS You cant beat a good slate call for all around calls. The only time I use a mouth call is for close in clucks... See... www.kaiserkalls.com/. |
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Post by firstwd on Jan 23, 2014 22:21:45 GMT -5
Honestly, I have slate, glass, aluminum, strikers in 7 different material combinations, a box, a push pin, and a wing bone style. The only thing I don't have is mouth - can't deal with the gag reflex. All turned out to be fairly easy to learn, you just need to take time to practice. The hardest call for me to learn was my reeded owl call, the can owl calls are way too easy.
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Post by daworz on Jan 24, 2014 20:51:26 GMT -5
friction, but get a Good Mouth Call and work with it, maybe not the 1st year, But next Couple Best call for Sealing the deal,
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Post by kevinhunter on Jan 27, 2014 16:03:13 GMT -5
Like everyone is saying a good friction call-slate or box is the easiest to master with a little practice and patience, but a simple double reed mouth call that is cut, bent and fitted to your own mouth will be your best friend in the turkey woods. It makes it so you are not moving any part of your body other than your mouth while working a call, unlike a box or slate call. This is the most important part of turkey hunting and most over looked by most new to turkey hunting, being still and blending in is deadly. And once you have mastered the simple yelp, cluck and purr of any type of call and have that big gobbler interested and listening to you and he has decided to come to your set up-the mastering of silence and no calling will bring in more gobblers than any call you have in your vest and use. Silence is deadly!!!! And a keen ear to listening is most important-many a long beard will come in silent after that long bit of gobbling to check out the situation.  Less calling is and can be more in most turkey woods!!!! Of course knowing your terrain-scouting and patterning birds goes along with any good call and having many calls in your turkey vest can also trick that old gobbler to coming your way as well-change it up and give him a different sound and sometimes is all it takes. My turkey vest looks like a sporting goods store sometimes, just depends on how those old birds are acting and what type of weather I’m hunting in as to which one of them is going to work that day or not. Good luck, have fun practicing and be safe!!! |
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Less calling is and can be more in most turkey woods!!!! Of course knowing your terrain-scouting and patterning birds goes along with any good call and having many calls in your turkey vest can also trick that old gobbler to coming your way as well-change it up and give him a different sound and sometimes is all it takes. My turkey vest looks like a sporting goods store sometimes, just depends on how those old birds are acting and what type of weather I’m hunting in as to which one of them is going to work that day or not. Good luck, have fun practicing and be safe!!!