I'm not the type of guy who can sit around and let things happen.I'm definatly the agressive type when it comes to turkey hunting.If I don't have action in the first hour,I'm up and moving.It's worked very well for me in the past, so that's what I'll keep doing.

i'm passive most of the time. mainly because i hunt public land. i'm dealing mainly with call shy birds. most of the birds i take don't gobble at all.

I am not the greatest caller in the world by far. But I do take my fair share of birds every year and it's because I try and figger out where that bird is going and then I'll get there first. If I have guessed right it doesn't take a world champion caller to get him in.(Thank God, or I'de never kill one.) So anyhow,I guess that I would be classifide as a passive caller.

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

I'm not sure how to define my style. I cover lots of ground, but when I find a gobbling bird, I hang on like a pit bull. Got a chuckle from the fellow who talked about leaving slow-working birds to get a hotter one. Wish it were that easy in the mountains I hunt. Leave a gobbling bird here, and you might go a day or two before finding another. Then again, you may find one 10 min. later, but that's not a chance I'm willing to take. I'll stick with the gobbling tom.

I like to call a fair amount, but try to keep it fairly soft, saving the loud & obnoxious stuff as a potential ace-in-the-hole.

I do like to get close on setup, at least in the morning. 100 yards is nice; 75 is even better if I'm really feeling lucky. I back off quite a bit on setups after they're off the roost.

Used to move on toms quite a bit while working them, but I've been burned enough the last few years to consider staying put more often.

Guess I don't know what style I really am. What do you folks think?

Aggressive. I want to hear the birds talk and usually I get that by being more aggressive. There are a lot of mornings that I know I am too aggressive, but that is because I just love the sound of the birds gobbling.

Agressive,I like to get as close as possible when setting up.If a tom is not responding I don't hesitate to try a different set up or look for another bird.I don't think think that my calling style is agressive/I try to let the bird dictate how much I call.

Mike, I would have to say 50/50 for me. I enjoy both, and get just a big of kick out of each method. I guess it's the whole spring experience that captivates me!! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Without question, I let the bird determine. The more aggressive he gobbles, the more aggressive I am unless I have worked him before and know that he does not respond to aggression. Aggressive calling and lots of gobbling is very pleasing to the senses, but sometimes leads to the gobbler wanting me to come to him. It is a finesse thing for me. I start low and slow , if not working, move to loud and proud, and if still no success, go back to hard to get. It is very hard to gerneralize though because different birds react differently even depending on the day.

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