My area is pressured pretty hard, so we came up with the idea to call like crazed hens. Those birds hear the usual cluck and cutt routine. So we give them something different. When we get one to gobble back, we go crazy. Everything from social talk to fighting purrs to long cutts to repeated cackles everything. It sounds crazy but it gets those toms excited. Also, if he has hens with him, it usually pisses off the lead hen too.

The only problem that we've run into is the toms start to hang up. They are thinking that these hot hens will come to them. This is when I like to slow down and make the toms think that the hens have lost interest because no toms have shown up. However my hunting parnter thinks we should go even more nuts. So far my idea has worked best (2 of 3 times).

BM

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Edited by - Blue Moose CO on 02/03/2002 23:05:06