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.
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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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