purring & clucking versus yelping
 

once you have a gobblers attention, do you prefer to use a yelping sequence or just soft clucking and purring.

ARO

RE: purring & clucking versus yelping
 

Yelping for me, As the bird comes toward me , I like to slow my rythem and shorten my yelping lenght aswell. I'll also a few soft Clucks with the yelping. Purring and clucking is more of the way I work Silent birds...BT

RE: purring & clucking versus yelping
 

Especially for the first hour after fly-down, turkeys are still trying to assemble and find eachother to begin the day. Yelps are their assembly call so alot of yelping works well in the early morning. Also mix in some cutting and clucking. Later in the morning when a gobbler gets lonely, I try to fire him up as I would right after flydown, if I get a vocal gobbler then I am in business, if not then I go to an area I know turkeys feed during the day and thats when I use the soft calls like clucks and purrs and at most some medium yelps. As it gets within a couple hours of fly-up time, I go to a frequent roost area and use the soft calls again hoping a gobbler will hear and come looking for a hen to roost with. So with calling, for me, it all depends on the time of day, and the mood of the longbeards.

RE: purring & clucking versus yelping
 

I like to cut and yelp at them to get them coming, but if they start to hang up on me I will back off the aggressive stuff and give them the soft yelps clucks and purrs along with some scratching in the leaves. And If they still remain hung up I will give them the silent treatment for 15 or 20 minutes. Wile calling for other hunters I have had some luck by sneeking away and calling. To sound like a hen who is leaving. As allways it all depends on the situation.

RE: purring & clucking versus yelping
 

Purring and clucking

Mostly public land hunting here and I don't want him gobbling to other hunters.

Once he's gobbling at my calling a few times,I'm off the yelping

RE: purring & clucking versus yelping
 

if you are dealing with pressures birds whether private or public lands I woould go soft and take his temp first. If he likes it loud give it to him, if he likes it soft, you get the point. All gobblers are different, take their temp and go from there.

RE: purring & clucking versus yelping
 

I've had some birds gobble most of the way in.
They get real close and start to cluck.

I would give them back exactly what they did and it has produced good results.