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Why do Turkeys respond to crow and owl calls

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BWR,The 2 main reasons to my understanding turkeys gobble to crows,owls,and for that matter a wide range of sounds is either to challenge or it is a reflex action!Many times we talk about making a bird "shock"gobble this is done to help locate a gobbler and give us a position or direction to go on a bird!You can make that reflex action work on a gobbler using a variety of sounds from a turkey call in "striking a bird"or using one of the many locator calls on the market!My personal favorites are either a coyote howler or a honker flute!! :)

Monarch isn't a butterfly it's the King of the Spring!

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Hey BB,who makes that 3-1 call???Thanks...Bob...

Monarch isn't a butterfly it's the King of the Spring!

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As Brokenbucket stated, a lot of public birds are hammered with owl calls in the morning and crow calls in the evening. My success has been 50-50 with owl calls and less than that with crow calls. I tend to not use them at all until I'm desperate to locate a tom. My loud box call tends to get a distant tom to respond better than anything else.

I do remember back in Wisconsin when I hunted a lot of logging roads, we used to slam our vehicle doors shut and get a response! Another time I located a tom shock gobbling when an Airforce Jet flew over.

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ya'll ever tried makin the wood pecker call with a crow call.
I have a lohman crow call (very good call) and by blowin short
cut off spurts of air in it, it sounds a lot like the wood pecker.
just use a t sound when blowin-- tet-tet-tet-tet-tet- very fast.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

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I can remember one spring morning when i had a gobbler roosted from the night before. I was set up about 75 yards away from him when at right about gobbling time this a$% hole pull up and starts slamming his truck door. He doe it about 7 or 8 times the next thing you know my turkey just flys out of the tree with out letting out one gobble.

Did i tell you that i hunt public land ???

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thanks everyone