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Best trick for bringing in hung up birds
Posted on 4/10/17 at 10:06 pm
Posted on 4/10/17 at 10:06 pm
What u got? I am master of getting a bird within 150 yards or so but they they always seem to hang up on me. I typically use a lynch fool proof box with yelps.
Should I switch or vary call if they hang up?
I know about terrain etc and that they could possible be seeing me but shite I am super covered etc
Should I switch or vary call if they hang up?
I know about terrain etc and that they could possible be seeing me but shite I am super covered etc
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:47 pm to TutHillTiger
Got to switch up what you're saying to him. I always viewed loud yelps as "hey, i'm here is anybody out there?". It would sound weird to just keep repeating that over and over again. If he's coming he's interested and knows exactly where you are, so you can stop that line and move onto something more enticing and softer, purrs etc. If he can't see you, you can try scratching on the ground like you are feeding and are too good to walk over to him. This is like saying "come over here and buy me a drink".
Remember it's a conversation, and no one wants to hang out with the creepy kid who says "hey, hey, hey, hey, hey" constantly. He's probably some dude in camo with a shotgun.
Generally just call less and quieter as long as he is coming to you.
Remember it's a conversation, and no one wants to hang out with the creepy kid who says "hey, hey, hey, hey, hey" constantly. He's probably some dude in camo with a shotgun.
Generally just call less and quieter as long as he is coming to you.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 1:14 am to ZacAttack
move location, if he stays put, move again, circle that sucker! He wants to go somewhere!
Posted on 4/11/17 at 2:37 am to TutHillTiger
Get closer than 150yds before you try to call to him.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 7:23 am to tenfoe
When they are hened up early in the season, fighting purs will bring them in. It's a bit like rattling for deer. You are simulating a fight. I've had a hung up tom lead his hens in looking for this fight after not budging for over an hour.
Get quiet. He'll be curious if the hen is still there and might come.
If it is safe, make hen talk, then cut it off with a gobble tube. He thinks she already has company and will have to cut in.
Be patient. As the season wears on, the hens will go sit on their nest. Mid morning will find the tom looking for company.
Use a slate that you can get real soft with.
Get quiet. He'll be curious if the hen is still there and might come.
If it is safe, make hen talk, then cut it off with a gobble tube. He thinks she already has company and will have to cut in.
Be patient. As the season wears on, the hens will go sit on their nest. Mid morning will find the tom looking for company.
Use a slate that you can get real soft with.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 8:40 am to 257WBY
Get a gobble call. When he hangs up double gobble at him. When he answers gobble again. Get ya gun ready
Posted on 4/11/17 at 8:53 am to TutHillTiger
You have to get somewhere that is going to make him come within range. If he's 150 yards and should be able to see a hen where the call is coming from, and doesn't see a hen, he is not naturally going to come.
Your best bet is going to be not calling to him when he's over 150 yds away. Get closer. If he has hens with him, and you can get 100 yds from him, he may walk 40-50 yards towards you to get a look at the "hen" that's calling, but he's going to stay within eyesight of his hens. You can kill them when they have hens with them, but you can't expect them to walk away and leave his hens.
Also, when he gobbles and you call back to him (a mistake I see a lot of hunters make), that's the hen's way of saying "i'm on my way." Don't answer a gobble with a hen call.
Your best bet is going to be not calling to him when he's over 150 yds away. Get closer. If he has hens with him, and you can get 100 yds from him, he may walk 40-50 yards towards you to get a look at the "hen" that's calling, but he's going to stay within eyesight of his hens. You can kill them when they have hens with them, but you can't expect them to walk away and leave his hens.
Also, when he gobbles and you call back to him (a mistake I see a lot of hunters make), that's the hen's way of saying "i'm on my way." Don't answer a gobble with a hen call.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 8:57 am to TutHillTiger
Are you strictly using a box call?
For starters I'd use a mouth call, if for no other reason than cutting down on movement.
In other words, use the box call to locate and get him interested, then mouth call once he's closer
For starters I'd use a mouth call, if for no other reason than cutting down on movement.
In other words, use the box call to locate and get him interested, then mouth call once he's closer
Posted on 4/11/17 at 9:13 am to TutHillTiger
I'd though you were talking about hooking a seagull or a Pelican.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 9:18 am to TutHillTiger
corn, cracked corn works best?
Posted on 4/11/17 at 9:23 am to hogdaddy
I called one up for my brother-in-law this weekend that was over 100 yards away in a field. There were 3-4 of them gobbling on the roost but we couldn't get that close to them because they were across a field, but they did answer me a few times. Once they flew down and came into the field they were with several hens and jakes. I started mimicking the hens, and one of them got pissed and tried to come find me. She dragged the whole group over and my BIL blasted his first gobbler.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 10:10 am to ZacAttack
Purr more than anything when they get close... an not much of that
This post was edited on 4/11/17 at 10:11 am
Posted on 4/11/17 at 12:22 pm to tiger chaser
There's no single answer, you gotta know why he is hung up. Often times they'll fly down into a strut zone and strut until their normal girls come to them. You gotta either hope none go or you call the hens in when they do.
If they should be seeing a hen and don't, put out a hen and jake decoy or a strutter. I don't like single hens when they can see long way simple because I've had them strut and hang up waiting on the hen to close the gap. I do like single hens when visibility is limited though.
As said, I call hard until they come and then you want to shut up unless you have a jake or strutter decoy out they'll see. If they don't come in after some soft calling or shutting up for 30 minutes, then I switch it up and call hard. I've killed plenty of birds by doing what others would call over calling, and I've had tons of hens come in calling way more than I would. But usually when you call hard that means you are going to them. Many times too overcalling happens when there is a landscape hold up like a creek. So I'll sit on a creek and act like a hen stuck on the other side sometimes too.
If they should be seeing a hen and don't, put out a hen and jake decoy or a strutter. I don't like single hens when they can see long way simple because I've had them strut and hang up waiting on the hen to close the gap. I do like single hens when visibility is limited though.
As said, I call hard until they come and then you want to shut up unless you have a jake or strutter decoy out they'll see. If they don't come in after some soft calling or shutting up for 30 minutes, then I switch it up and call hard. I've killed plenty of birds by doing what others would call over calling, and I've had tons of hens come in calling way more than I would. But usually when you call hard that means you are going to them. Many times too overcalling happens when there is a landscape hold up like a creek. So I'll sit on a creek and act like a hen stuck on the other side sometimes too.
This post was edited on 4/11/17 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 4/11/17 at 12:52 pm to TutHillTiger
Go get you a sweet talkin ceramic pot call from T3 calls. They are local guys and the ceramic makes all kinds of noises from soft purrs to cutting and yelps....that may help ya get em into a closet range
Posted on 4/11/17 at 12:59 pm to TutHillTiger
Your best bet is to probably just shut up. In the natural world, the hens come to the gobbler. So when he hangs up, he's waiting for you (the hen) to come to him.
Try calling a couple times to let him know where you are, then give him the silent treatment. He'll usually get frustrated or curious and come in looking to see where you are
Try calling a couple times to let him know where you are, then give him the silent treatment. He'll usually get frustrated or curious and come in looking to see where you are
Posted on 4/12/17 at 12:14 am to fillmoregandt
Thanks everyone. Good advice I will try to use it
Posted on 4/12/17 at 6:36 am to TutHillTiger
Every turkey is killable but not every turkey can be called in.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 7:54 am to TutHillTiger
In our area, it's practically impossible to get a bird to come downhill to you. They hang up almost every time. Gotta get above them and they will come in.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 11:08 am to tiger chaser
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Purr more than anything when they get close... an not much of that
I called one in this morning before work, and when I could hear him close in the woods this post was actually going through my head. I could hear him drumming and scratching around, but I was so fixated on him coming from my right that he had been standing to my left strutting for probably a minute or two I would guess before I looked left and saw him. I was about to pick my call up and purr again when I looked over and saw him, I would have felt like a jackass had I scared him off when he was so close
This time my SBEII did not click on me, I don't know how to post the pic
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