locater call?

[jesse8953]

What call is most effected locater call?

[Rem308]

In the past, I've always just used a hoot owl call for locating here in WV. Last year it didn't work very well for me. Anyone use the peacock scream call in this region?

[hungry hunter]

Me personally I carry two locater calls, crow and goose, I actually get alot of response from the goose call. (Florida)

[Dakota]

I've heard a lot of good things about the owl locator calls and actually picked up a Primos Power Owl and a Full Strut turkey vest this afternoon at Scheels. I've already been working the call and seems to work really well.

Dakota

[Guest TennesseeTurkey]

Owl hooter 99.9% of the time on the roost works....If its raining, unless you know where the birds already are..... hang it up..... in my experiences they wont talk....off the roost I use the crow call and in desperate situations Ill use the owl hooter again....

[redkneck]

I hoot when they're on the roost, and after daylight i hit the crow call. I've never used a peacock call, but when i was in school, my neighbor had peacocks and they would sound off to that. I wouldnt go around blowing one though in places where that noise is new to them though, even though they'll gobble at car horns, dogs and everything else.

[Rhino]

If you need a locator call while they are still roosted in the morning either an owl or crow work. Usually an owl call would get the edge over the crow call though. I certainly wouldn't risk using a crow call until after you heard the first live crow calling in the morning. Here at home the crows usually crank up on their own about the same time the gobblers crank up.

I rarely ever use a locator call while turkeys are roosted in the morning though. Simply because they will usually gobble on their own in the morning anyway if they're going to gobble at all. That's their way of letting the hens know where they are and that's what they're going to be looking for first thing. JMHO but over the years I've heard more dummies blowing owl hoots as they approach a roosted bird in the morning to the point where they overcall and end up shutting down the very birds they're trying to move in to hunt. If you're going to use an owl hooter be careful not to overdo it. Better yet once you get a bird cranked up try to let him gobble on his own if you can stand it.

During the day I prefer crow calls. Sometimes though they will only get a bird to shock gobble at it once. If you have a buddy with you, one person should back off to blow the crow call while the other listens for the bird to gobble. There's also the chance you'll call some crows into the area and then you can let them do the work for you. I've had that happen many times and sometimes a bird may go several minutes during many real crows calling between that bird's gobbles. I haven't tried a peacock call. By far the best daytime locator call is thunder but there's no way to reproduce that sound. They will gobble at almost anything that has a sharp loud noise to it. Last year one sounded like he was going to gobble himself to death at a truck running down the road with some sort of metal banging around in the bed of the truck. LMBO.

Now for trying to roost birds in the late afternoon right before dark...I've had my best luck just going with a hen's cutting call. You can reproduce that sound with just about any turkey call but a box call will give you the most volume. I have my best luck during that last 10 minutes or so a daylight doing this. 2nd to that would be an owl hoot. 3rd place would go to a gobble call. If you're lucky some will just gobble on their own shortly after they fly up. When they do listen for others to respond to that bird and just try to pinpoint their position without blowing a call.

[turkey chaser]

i do what rhino says

i don't call when they are in the roost, just let them gobble on their own.

[Rem308]

I agree, on good weathered days, the birds seem to sound off without any coaxing, I then get into position and once they fly down, I'll call.

On a rainy day, or a cold morning when they're tight lipped, sometimes I'll use the hoot owl locater and see if one won't give up his position.