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Re: “Old School”
[Re: cartervj]
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05/03/24 12:28 PM
05/03/24 12:28 PM
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Joined: Aug 2018
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Semo
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You’ve never heard that’s how you’re supposed to hunt them. That’s all I heard when I started back in the early 90s. Said all these young guys running and gunning is gonna ruin the sport. I was told this over and over, specifically had to use a box call, a Lynch was best. That’s how all the old timers killed em Wingbones, homemade slates, and lynch box calls were the standard. There were also these little cedar boxes that you would strike against a peg. The box was 3 to 4 inches long by 2 to three wide and 3/4 inch thick with a lip. The peg was 2 inches long and you held it still and moved the box against it. I have a few my grandfather made. Maybe it is time to go old school and pull those out of a storage box.
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Re: “Old School”
[Re: Gobble4me757]
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05/03/24 12:32 PM
05/03/24 12:32 PM
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Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 19,080 colbert county
cartervj
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I’ve got an old frictionwood that is my go to in a bind. Had a friend that carried a Turpin that his granddaddy died still holding it in a turkey blind. It’d strike birds nothing else would. I forget how much it as worth but Rob carried every hunt.
“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.” ― Ronald Reagan
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Re: “Old School”
[Re: BrowningGuy88]
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05/04/24 07:42 PM
05/04/24 07:42 PM
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Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 26,458 Helena
3toe
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Talking Turkey
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I’m probably a solid mix.
I was taught by the guys that yelped 3 times and never made another call. I was taught to under no circumstances do you ever spook a Turkey.
Back when there weren’t any turkey hunters I think this may have worked. In today’s turkey woods these birds have been called to way too much, bumped, shot, shot at, etc. I don’t think 3 yelps and sitting on a gobbling turkey will work like it did 40 yrs ago. These Alabama turkeys today seem they just want you to give them a reason to walk away. Giving them only 3 yelps seems like a recipe for a long morning in the woods.
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Re: “Old School”
[Re: 3toe]
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05/04/24 07:55 PM
05/04/24 07:55 PM
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Posts: 36 South Alabama
BrowningGuy88
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I’m probably a solid mix.
I was taught by the guys that yelped 3 times and never made another call. I was taught to under no circumstances do you ever spook a Turkey.
Back when there weren’t any turkey hunters I think this may have worked. In today’s turkey woods these birds have been called to way too much, bumped, shot, shot at, etc. I don’t think 3 yelps and sitting on a gobbling turkey will work like it did 40 yrs ago. These Alabama turkeys today seem they just want you to give them a reason to walk away. Giving them only 3 yelps seems like a recipe for a long morning in the woods. Oh I completely agree. I haven never been one myself to do it, but my mentors taught me that’s how to do it. Honestly, it worked. They killed the 5 bird limit in Alabama and the 3 bird limit in Mississippi every year.
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Re: “Old School”
[Re: Gobble4me757]
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05/04/24 08:49 PM
05/04/24 08:49 PM
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Back when the old timers were doing the 3 yelps every 45 minutes and wait. Hitting them hard and keeping the gobbling hard worked well for years. I rarely yelp at a bird and I mean rarely. I’ll let out a series on the Billy White if nothing is gobbling but that’s about it. Purrs, whines and light cuts/clucks is about all I do now.
I don’t use locater calls early. I wait and listen
The game has changed thru the years and there is always exceptions but that’s what I do now.
I miss the ole running and gunning and wearing a call out. Trying to get him to pass out from hard gobbling and never letting up. Those were the days.
“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.” ― Ronald Reagan
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Re: “Old School”
[Re: Gobble4me757]
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05/05/24 08:49 AM
05/05/24 08:49 AM
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I grew up with a different set of old timers, I guess. (1970’s) They weren’t one trick ponies for sure sitting around and clucking 3 times every so often. If the bird needed a lot of calling, they called a lot. If a little, a little. If he wanted a box, they called with a box, or a slate or a wing, a snuff box, a scratch box, a willow leaf (exaggeration) or a little later a diaphragm, whatever they had and needed too. And they would walk your legs off looking to strike a bird. About the only thing they wouldn’t do was crawl to one. They were sportsmen when it came to turkeys. They had seen some rough population swings and loved hunting them. They wanted more for tomorrow…
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Re: “Old School”
[Re: blade]
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05/05/24 04:15 PM
05/05/24 04:15 PM
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 15,945 Elmore County
Frankie
Old Mossy Horns
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I grew up with a different set of old timers, I guess. (1970’s) They weren’t one trick ponies for sure sitting around and clucking 3 times every so often. If the bird needed a lot of calling, they called a lot. If a little, a little. If he wanted a box, they called with a box, or a slate or a wing, a snuff box, a scratch box, a willow leaf (exaggeration) or a little later a diaphragm, whatever they had and needed too. And they would walk your legs off looking to strike a bird. About the only thing they wouldn’t do was crawl to one. They were sportsmen when it came to turkeys. They had seen some rough population swings and loved hunting them. They wanted more for tomorrow… Or even call with two calls at one time too. I've called with one call then right behind it with another . You can take some two Reed mouth calls and flip them in your and make two total different calls . I've seen hens yelp a couple times I've seen hens yelp over a dozen times ... And yes gobblers are different . Some like different sounds better I've heard hens that sounded nice and clear others that sounded bout like a dog barking . Why calling contest never impressed me. calling people is one thing calling a turkey is another thing
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Re: “Old School”
[Re: mcninja]
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05/05/24 08:50 PM
05/05/24 08:50 PM
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Semo
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Turkey kills just don’t count unless you call him in to 15’ or less and flip him with a.410. Anything else is lowdown scumbag outlaw new school YouTube shenanigans. I like them 12-15 feet with my 3.5 inch #6 nitro mags....but only if they will strut.
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