So you should be mindful of your calling cadence, since nervous turkeys don’t talk much.Įven if your calling doesn’t come close to resembling turkey talk, don’t believe you are running anything off. Continuous yelping with no real sequence also doesn’t seem to compute with turkeys, and it has been known to make them nervous. If the road hunters are constantly hounding them with “machine-gun” cutts on diaphragm calls, the turkeys might get a little desensitized or otherwise unresponsive, to cutts made with diaphragm calls. When things get back to normal, they will start talking again.Īt times, turkeys may get a little more particular about call accuracy, and they might be suspicious of truly bad calling, but then again, this is all part of their nature. The slightest distraction, or hint of danger, will often keep turkey lips sealed. They might be able to see or hear coyotes or yard dogs, or school kids, prowling around. If you believe your calling is as good as the turkeys’, and you know they wouldn’t answer another turkey if they won’t answer you, then know they just don’t feel like talking. If you are calling to gobblers in the spring and they aren’t answering, they have their reasons for their lack of response. Where are the turkeys? They were here last night, how could they disappear? Have I done something wrong? Did the calls sound bad or was the sequence wrong? You keep firing off these rhetorical questions to yourself, until you finally settle on the most ego-soothing conclusion: You have gotten yourself into a flock of “call-shy” turkeys. Questions and doubts start filling your mind. Sending a good set of hen yelps floating off into the ether with no audible response is, in a word, disheartening. Their response might not be as “direct” or as “animated” as expected, but they are listening and they will respond-if they want to. Turkeys will not forsake their language for any reason. I have called-in whole flocks of turkeys in the fall that never made a sound while approaching, but they were, without doubt, coming to my calls. They may answer your call and go the other way, but if they answer, they are listening. They get more cautious about how they respond when they get “beat up” with inconsistent calling, but they surely listen, and will respond if it fits their agenda.īashful spring gobblers may sneak in quietly to investigate vocal hens, but they are seeking female companionship, so they will come. If the artificial calling is anywhere close to accurate, and in the proper sequence, they are listening. Joe Smith, journeyman guide and turkey caller from Alabama, calls them “Sometimesy.” Some days they talk, some days they don’t, but they always listen. For whatever reasons, they may not answer back, but they are listening. Turkeys’ behavioral tendencies can best be described as fickle and flighty.
FLOCK OF TURKEYS HOW TO
How to Use Turkey Locator Calls Not Call-Shy. Before we delve into these specific strategies, it might be helpful to consider some common turkey behavior. Another plan would be to change up your calling techniques to deal with birds that aren’t responsive to standard, aggressive strategies.
So how do you effectively hunt birds that have suddenly gone silent? One response is to get out your smartphone and consult your HuntStand app, and keep moving and calling, using the app’s detailed “satellite” views to ensure you’re covering the far reaches of your hunting area, to locate “receptive” birds. Not calling or responding to calling would, in effect, exile the turkey from the rest of the flock. For a turkey to voluntarily quit using or responding to his or her “language,” would be a counter-productive (and totally unnatural) occurrence. This language consists of a limited variety of distinctive sounds used in varying degrees of volume and sequence, to convey information and communicate their most-basic emotions and desires, to their flock mates. Turkeys are social creatures with a well-developed flocking instinct, and a method of communication that maintains cohesion and unity within the flock-a “language,” if you will. And sadly, it didn’t require logging too many hours of hunting and observation for us to arrive at what some might find a sobering conclusion: Turkeys are simply not capable of conceptualizing a situation where anything-or anyone-would be imitating their language, in order to lure them into harm’s way. Belief in this common misconception will lead you down the path to all sorts of problems, yet the myth persists. There is no such thing as a call-shy gobbler.ĭon’t fall for the call-shy turkey myth.
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