owl hooters
 

does anyone actually get birds to gooble to these? i have used one the last 3 days and the birds are there and they never answer to it! anyone else have the same problem?

RE: owl hooters
 

One of the places I' m hunting they will gobble at an owl hooter better than they do at a turkey call. I would rather not have to use a locator call but sometimes it will give you a 5 or 10 minute jump on them and that could be pretty important if it takes you awhile to get to them.

RE: owl hooters
 

I was hit and miss with mine. Several mornings I was able to get one to shock gobble to it---other mornings they gobbled when they wanted to. It was great when they did sound off because I could get ready where I was or move closer to him.

RE: owl hooters
 

I was able to roost at least one gobbler every night the week that I hunted with a owl hooter or a coyote howler.In the morning I prefer to let them start out on there own if I know where I want to set up.A couple years ago I switched from a reed type owl hooter to a canister type and I have really improved my roosting success since then.

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I never had any luck with an owl hooter, then again the one I have sounds pretty lame. Never been able to roost one in the evening either. I have some success with a crow call in the AM when they don' t gobble on their own. The two mornings I have hunted so far, no luck at all with locators.

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Up until this year, I had not experienced much success with an owl hooter. This year, however, they' re gobbling at it as much as (or more) than my calling. Unfortunately, this has not translated into a dead turkey yet this year, but it does tell me where I' ll be most likely to bump them off the roost!! [:' (]

RE: owl hooters
 

my experience has been if a bird is gobbling to owl or crow calls, use them to locate the bird to make a setup.on public land where i hunt,after the first few days the birds have heard so many calls from so many different hunters that they may shut up except to gobble on the roost then go the other direction and not gobble again.i like to stay silent and let nature take it' s course.then i will develop a strategy.

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Owl Hooters?

Now, lookin at women is one thing...but owls? I' m gonna have to move this to our adult section of the site...:D

All kidding aside...I take an Owl call with me whenever I got turkey hunting. They don' t respond to crows much around here, and I don' t have a peacock call (hear they work good), but yes, I usually can get gobbles off the roost with my owl hoot tube.

It works good for a locator around my parts...

RE: owl hooters
 

I bought the one from HS Strut 9 or 10 years ago, but I' ve never taken it into the woods. I always use my voice, and thought most people did the same. Now I' m seeing more and more calls on the market. Maybe I' ll take my call with me next time and compare responses to my voice vs the owl hooter. My voice usually does the trick if they are in the mood. Otherwise I' ll do a peacock or coyote howl.

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I also use my voice. Usually I just rip off a very loud whoooooo, instead of the who cooks for you who cooks for you all series of hoots. It works better around here. I use owl hoots when it is dark, morning or evening. Later in the morning I switch to crow calls or other shock calls.

Some mornings the birds will not gobble no matter what, and other mornings they all want to gobble at anything they here.

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The rule is that not all turkeys will shock gobble all the time to a particular locator call. Remember this rule. Just because you use a locator call and get no response does not mean there are no turkeys around. I have actually used a hoot owl locator call, got no response, and walked in and set up UNDER a roosted gobbler (I forgot my own rule!!) because I felt I was in the right location, even though I got no response. His morning roost gobble nearly gave me a heart attack!!!

While in the woods before dawn I have been set up on roosted toms that did not shock gobble respond to other hunters using hoot owls as locators.

I have sat in the woods under roosted toms after fly up time, waiting until dark to leave and heard " real" coyotes sing for half an hour at dark, and the tom in the trees was silent.

I have blown crow calls with no response the first and second time, and a shock gobble the third, all from the same spot.

My point is that locator calls--hoot owl, crow, peacock, pileated woodpecker, duck, goose, air horn, car door, coyote, hen yelp/cutt, jake gobbling, even thunder (for you gods amongst us)--is not a certainty to produce a shock gobble response every time, and so you must not decide there are no turkeys around if you get no response as you could simply be dealing with an unresponsive turkey. There is no locator call that works every time.

RE: owl hooters
 

I have had pretty good luck with the owl call on the private land I hunt but they dont seem to respond well on the public areas. Could be that everyone is using them. Buy several calls, woodpecker, crow, coyote, peacock etc. and try em all.
In one area I hunt the turkeys shock to the peacock or nothing at all. Another area 30 miles down the road they seem to respond to the crow call best. I dont know why. Sometimes you cant shock them with anything.

RE: owl hooters
 

I have always used owl hooters on my hunting trips. If they dont work than use a crow call, im mid day i dont think they work, but in the morning they almost always work for me.



Hopes this helps

Trc. Merc.

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I used one saturday on my buddy Rich' s property while hunting with him and we got a real surprise. 10 seconds after my " who cooks for you" sentence, I heard a short hoot hoot behind us 50 yards in the woods. Rich looked at me and said " we may have to throw a trespasser off" . A minute or 2 later, another hoot, and then all of a sudden the whole woods came alive with hoots and hollers for about 2 minutes from what sounded like to be about 3 or 4 different owls strung out through the small chunk of woods. Never heard that before! I must of made them mad about something. It was pretty entertaining. Even THEY couldn' t get those henned up gobblers to talk. I looked at Rich at said " if that' s one hunter, I' ll eat this hoot tube." Well, we stood there for about 5 more minutes, then decided to walk a little further, flushing about 6 birds out the trees 30 yards from us.............they never made a peep. [&:]

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I am new to turkey hunting. I have been out twice. It so awesome.
I have been reading to try to understand.

Can someone explain what " Shock-Gobble" means??

RE: owl hooters
 

S4bill- a shock gobble is a male turkey gobbling in response to a noise, natural or otherwise. I have had turkeys gobble their heads to the sound of my truck door closing. Turkey hunters use locator calls like owl calls or crow calls, or even coyote howlers to make a Tom gobble and give away his position. If you use an owl hooter just at sundown a Tom may gobble and give away his position so you know where to set up the next morning. Owl hooters are good just before first light too, or they are to most hunters anyway. I have had better success after first light using a crow call. Locators don' t always work, and it doesn' t necessarily mean there are no turkeys around. I have called in several toms that did not respond to locators, but gobbled and came in when I set up and started calling on my slate.

RE: owl hooters
 

they only thing that has answered my owl hooter is an owl...we thought it was another hunter too till it moved about 100 yards or so....in 5 secs
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I use my natural voice to owl hoot
I seem to get more volume with my voice than any call that I have tried!
The only time that I use an Owl Hoot is very early in the Morning just to locate a Bird :D