![]() ![]() Back in the day, many of the old guard of turkey hunting lived by the rule of “yelp three times and wait 15 minutes”. This misconception is another one that has really hung on over the years. 2 - “Overcalling is an automatic ticket to a bowl of tag soup.” So, don’t worry so much if you hit a wrong note. This is not to say that tone and pitch don’t matter, because they do, but even a wild turkey has times when their voices crack, or they get a frog in their throat. The difference in my success rate was huge! I began to realize that turkeys, like people, are a creature of moods and attitudes, and by matching those moods and attitudes, and not worrying if I was hitting the exact right note each time, I was more and more successful. ![]() I stopped worrying so much about never hitting an off note and started focusing on my rhythm and attitude with calling. I found that the sounds I made were much less important than my cadence and my understanding of what the birds were doing. I bought a trio of wild turkeys from a breeder and began using them to practice my calling with. I began to listen to the turkeys around me, and I started focusing more on their rhythm and mannerisms. Over the years, as my confidence in my own ability to call grew, I started getting more bold in trying new things. Each time a tom would head away from me I would scratch my head and wonder why, inevitably settling on the fact that I had messed up the routine. I had some success, but I also had some failures. When I would go hunting, I would mimic some of those master’s routines, down to the note. To be sure, I was a turkey calling junkie. I would go to any calling competition I could go to so I could learn at the feet of the masters. I practiced for hours and hours, much to my family’s chagrin, to those tapes and discs. In my earliest years of turkey hunting, I devoured tapes and CDs of competition turkey callers to try to learn how they talked turkey so good. This is a common misconception that many turkey hunters, this writer included, have fallen for over the years. 1 - “To be a successful turkey caller, you have to sound like a competition caller.” ![]()
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