Should I call while hunting a food plot? For some reason this is confusing to me. I understand that the concept of calling is to draw in a tom looking to breed, but do hens yelp while eating or do they walk around with the sole intent to breed? If I didn't call, I would/could just wait for a tom to come and eat. What do yall think? I'm not sure why this is confusing me so much haha
Phil, when I hunt over my clover plot for turkeys i always use dekes, one jake and a feeding hen and sometimes a submissive hen. I will yelp and cutt if he is coming until he steps out of woods into the plot or open, if he does not see hens where he expects too alot of times he will hang up because he knows something isn't right if there are no decoys there, once he sees dekes I will just do soft clucks and purrs to get him coming in. Yelps are basically a locator call but a lot to times hens will soft cluck and purr while feeding. Hope this helps. Scoot
Awesome advice, I didn't know that, thank you. This will be my first year trying to hunt turkeys in a blind, over a plot. I planted the Imperial Whitetail No-Plow about 2 weeks ago and its coming up great. Growing up, the man that taught me to hunt - we only did spot and stalk but had great success. I've always wanted to see if I could call one in
I start soft with each sequence. If I don't get a response I will get louder. I let it rip if it's windy. One thing to keep in mind while blind hunting is that a ear busting call inside the blind isn't that loud outside. At the same time turkeys have really good hearing. There is really no right way. You just have to learn the temperament of turkeys. If I call and a hen bangs back at me I am going to cut her off, and be aggressive (loud). More times then not the boss hen leads the big boys on their death march! It also depends on the time of day. I am very aggressive right after fly down unless they are right on top of me. If I get a response! I am going to let them know I am interested and then shut up and make them come to me!
