electronic call for turkey hunting?
04-04-2013, 04:41 PM
#1
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Maine
Posts: 104
electronic call for turkey hunting?
Me and my friend are really competitive and he bought a electronic coyote call and downloaded turkey calls on it.
I'm a better caller than he is, I called in his first turkey and the other two someone else called in or him.
Do you think he has a better chance?
cause he thinks the second he hits the button the turkeys will rush right in to his call.
I know its legal, but out of all the turkey hunting tv shows I watch I have never seen any "pro's" use electronic callers.
I'm a better caller than he is, I called in his first turkey and the other two someone else called in or him.
Do you think he has a better chance?
cause he thinks the second he hits the button the turkeys will rush right in to his call.
I know its legal, but out of all the turkey hunting tv shows I watch I have never seen any "pro's" use electronic callers.
Last edited by thelukai1100; 04-04-2013 at 04:43 PM.
04-04-2013, 04:48 PM
#2
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
It's not legal in a lot of states. including here in MI and to me doing the calling yourself is all the fun in turkey hunting. We also cannot use a decoy that gets any motion by other than the wind, so these tom decoys that you can move the tail with a string or by electronics are also illegal up here.
04-04-2013, 06:28 PM
#6
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: colorado
Posts: 700
Colorado does not allow electronic calls but stores still sell them here.
If it's legal for you thats cool, but I prefer the challenge of calling them in myself and electronics cant change the call or tone when needed. Let use know if they work.
If it's legal for you thats cool, but I prefer the challenge of calling them in myself and electronics cant change the call or tone when needed. Let use know if they work.
04-05-2013, 01:29 AM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: westernPa.
Posts: 2,211
How ya been bud?
04-05-2013, 03:29 AM
#9
Fork Horn
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Frederick, Maryland
Posts: 197
Not legal here in MD either. Not sure what fun it would be to use it. Me personally, I believe they should be illegal in every state. This is no offense to you guys out there who haven't mastered the art of calling yet but to me anyone can pull the trigger. Its everything else prior to that moment that takes skill and practice. I haven't actually squeezed off and killed a bird since 2009 but love turkey season as much as anyone. I have a 14 yr old son and 3 or 4 friends that I call for and they all generally get a bird every year. I realized along time ago that the guys who get all hyped up and bragging about what they shot because of someone else's calling aren't really turkey hunters(yet). I say yet because there is still a chance if they decide to put in the time and effort and annoy their wife or girlfriend in the truck with the constant practicing on a mouth call like the rest of us did. Just seems to me the calling is what the whole thing is about to begin with so if you take that part out of the equation then what. Seems lame to me but thats just my opinion.
04-05-2013, 04:57 AM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: South Dakota
Posts: 1,035
Not legal here in SD, no electronic or string decoys here either.
Personally, I wouldn't want to use an electronic call anyway... it's easy enough to learn friction calls and the mouth calls aren't that difficult to become somewhat proficient with in a small amount of time.
To each their own though.
Personally, I wouldn't want to use an electronic call anyway... it's easy enough to learn friction calls and the mouth calls aren't that difficult to become somewhat proficient with in a small amount of time.
To each their own though.