Calling wild turkeys can be maddening. Normally, hunters tend to call too much, yet one spring I crouched against a pine tree and a mouthy hen walked right past me, calling loudly and repeatedly. Listening to its clucks and yelps, I was sure that I had duplicated those sounds all morning, yet no gobblers answered. If you’ve experienced similar situation, here are ten ways to improve.
Turkeys aren’t difficult to call. People keep telling you that. Yet, you know they don’t gobble at you much. Even when they do, they don’t come to you. You’ve never had any luck “blind calling,” and truth be told, you watched a group of jakes, supposedly the dumbest creatures in the woods, run the other way after you yelped at them last season.
You know the truth, unfortunately. You suck at calling turkeys. You don’t know why. And you sure don’t know how to fix it.
But that’s OK. Admitting you have a problem is the first step, and your pals here at Realtree are here to help with the intervention. Read through this list, and see if something sounds familiar… [continued]
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