Originally Posted by
turkey harvester
If they don't gobble try something different. Here in Mo the birds hear hoots and crows from march till may. If I roost one in the evening now I use a coyote howler. Its louder and they gobble good at something different and loud.
Do that **** in wv and you will not hear a peep, coyotes eat turkeys here, I have used the coyote howl before, for 1 reason, to shut them up to lower hunting pressure in the area.
in any given area, only 10-15% of the gobblers are aggressive enough to gobble, so your best bet is find an area with a good turkey population and go out and listen, kill the aggressive gobbler, when he's gone, the rest will lose the fear of being put in their place and the next gobbler in the pecking order will start to show his dominance.
The main point here is a good place for turkeys, is a good place for a reason, it will continue to be a good place unless something drasticly changes. kill every gobbler there this year, next year there will be more, because, its a good place.
RR