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Urimaginaryfrnd
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I tend not to call them I lay along the edge of a field and wait for them to get into ambush range.
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John Barsness
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Anybody else ever use the old traditional wing-bone call? A friend gave a couple to me a few years ago and they WORK, if you can master them. I also use diaphragms, boxes, slates, etc. but it fun to get one goingw ith a wing-bone.
Very often in the turkey country I hunt it is often necessary to call the hens in, with the gobbler following them, because there are so darn many hens that the big gobblers usually have some located already and don't need to go chasing around after another call. This is sometimes possible when they come down from the roost, when you try to convince the hens that there's something really good to eat over this way....
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Terry Lamb
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Hello John, what exactly is a wing-bone call?
Also, I have a hierarchy of calls, using a box (greatest distance and volume, then my slate for closer in, then discarding both for gentle clucking from the diaphram when they are in really close, in order to keep both hands free for the shotgun or bow.
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300S&W
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Here ya go Terry:
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pass-thru
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I made a wingbone yelper form the bones of a gobbler I killed. I fulled with it until I got a decent yelp....it's basically a kissing or sucking that makes the sound. Thing is, gobbler bones are larger and produce a gobbler yelp, whereas hen bones make a hen yelp. I've heard the gobbler yelper can be deadly on toms in the fall after breaking some bachelors, but I've never tried it.
My call of choice is the diaphram. But the last turkey I killed was in 2006 and I called it in with the box call my late father used years ago....I had just found it the day before in some of his things. That hunt was special.
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Terry Lamb
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Well I'll be! Thanks 300, and to think an old fart like me had thought he had seen all things turkey!
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rifle looney
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I think the best Turkey gun would be a T/C contender 10''/12'' barrel in 22 mag? but then again I don't hunt Turkey.
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SD Dog
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Darn hens. Get a tom coming in hot, spies hens and cuts off or the ladies bust you. |
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Urimaginaryfrnd
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I dont know I call turkeys I get coyotes and bobcats.
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300S&W
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THAT'S better than hunters of the human breed! BTDT!!
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SD Dog
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Take it as a compliment, you must sound real good. Or it could be you sound like a sick one that would be easy prey. Do you hunt coyotes? |
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SD Dog
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Have you had other hunters come into your call? Seems like every year there is a new article about some hunter that "heard" a turkey and fired a round or two in its direction and ended up giving someone a face full of lead. Not good. |
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pyro6999
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i always get deer to come in its prompted me to seriously consider taking my box call to the deer stand in the fall.
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They call me "Boots"
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RONK
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Some guys use a crow call occasionally when hunting deer. A few relaxed "caws" serve to calm them, as they seem to know that crows are wary sentinels, so all must be safe when they hear one. I bet a turkey call can sometimes have the same effect.
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Terry Lamb
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hunterwingler
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You know guys they have name for this all it's called evolution,
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300S&W
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Let's just say I DON"T hunt turkeys anymore. |
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Terry Lamb
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Well you sure did hunt up that link to wing-bone turkey calls in a hurry.
Thanks again 300!
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Terry Lamb
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300S&W
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