another good scouting question...

[geterdun]

I was just watchin some turkey hunting videos and a question struck me....when turkey hear a locater calll....will they always gobble at it. I guess i mean that if im blow my crow call and nothing gobbles, does that mean there arent any birds in that area or is it possible for them to simply not gobble back....? Lol, to me its a good question, can there still be birds in an area if none of them answer my locater? thanks

[huntz4fun]

yea there can still be birds in hte area in Ohio were i hunt the birds just dontrespond well to traditional locator calls instead i use a good flute. for me it seems to work really well and drives the brids crazy

[snowdog2]

im blow my crow call and nothing gobbles, does that mean there arent any birds in that area

Absolutely not!!!
I've stood under roosted toms before flydown and blasted away with a crow and no response.I've cutt, no response and then "walked up"/spookeda turkey within 50 yards. I've hoot owled, no response, changed to a different hooter and gotten a shock gobble. I've coyote yelped (and this will usually evoke a response in the area I hunt) and not received a return gobble, to later see a tom strolling along where I yelped.

Then there are days in the woods when the toms will gobble at their own shadow, it seems.

The thing to do is to try several different sounds, and DON'T assume, because you got no response, that there isn't a turkey twenty yards away. He just might be!!