purring & clucking versus yelping
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NewLowell ,Ontario ,Canada
Posts: 2,765
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
#3
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Sugar Grove NC USA
Posts: 322
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.
#4
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ridgeland Wisconsin
Posts: 276
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.
#6
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: SW Ohio
Posts: 122
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.