Discover How to Hunt Turkey Using Custom Turkey calls

Talking turkey or simply making noise. Knowing the difference will determine the success of a turkey hunt. Imagine for a moment, you are experiencing another one of those sleepless nights tossing and turning. You know, the night before opening day. The night before turkey season actually opens, the dream like vision of a strutting old tom coming into range. For me, my trusty Browning Gold with the NWTF logo in mossy oak camo finish ready for action, resting on my knee.

Your mind, cluttered with all the pre-hunt scouting you and your hunting buddies have been talking about for the last several weeks. There have been reports of the winter flocks breaking-up, big ole toms are in their bachelor groups, there have been sightings of several groups of jakes doing what jakes do, and suggesting last years hatch was a good one.

Oh yeah, this year will be the best year you have had in a long time. Scouting confirms the birds are in deed using the same old roost trees. There are a lot of tom tracks, droppings and feathers on the ground under the roost. Just like clock work, the toms fly down, and make their way to the strut zone. The hens fly down, establish their pecking order, and go to the tom, oh yeah life is good in the turkey’s world.

Your plan consists of starting with the ole running and gunning tactic, until around 9:30 or 10:00 am. By that time, the toms will most likely be with their hens and quit gobbling. Anyway, the plan is to have a bird on the ground before that happens. If not then plan ‘B’, set-up in the old double bull pop-up blind overlooking a known dusting area and take a midday break that includes lunch a nap, and who knows maybe, a lovesick gobbler might just strut into range.

Snapping back into consciousness, you now find yourself obsessing over how important having your trusted turkey gun not only set-up properly, but more importantly, having your true glow gobble stopper red dot site dialed in as well. You wanted to put a Bushnell hollow site on your shotgun this year, but opted to go with the less expensive true glow red dot instead and save the money for a new choke tube. Now after the fact, you find yourself thinking about what you have heard. All the red dot sites have a red or green glow to them when turned on that can spook a weary old tom. Yes, it is true they do, but you convince yourself that the chances a turkey will look straight at the site is relatively small anyway.

After all, the 3 ½ 12 gage Heavy shot shell and the Indian Creek choke tube is a lethal combination at forty yards, and you trust it out to fifty yards under the right conditions. Still yet, you want to limit your shot to between 20 and 30 yards, which for a shotgun that shoots a tight pattern. You must as they say aim small, to hit small. After all that is why you decided to go with a site that provided the best sight picture, and ensure a good humane harvest of the respected ole turkey.

Another reality check, a glance at the alarm clock reveals, only 1:03am. Thinking to yourself, I got to get some sleep as you grab your pillow roll over again and try to drift off. Still your mind is in turkey hunting mode, but now you are thinking about how to call a turkey.

Your turkey vest is full of every kind of call known to man. Box calls, both a long and short version. A push pull call, Locater calls, crow call, hawk call, peacock call, owl hooter, even a dog whistle you have them all. You have a custom hand made wing bone call, an old tube call, and the Mack daddy of all custom calls, the friction call referred to by many as simply a slate.

It is easy to go to any ole run of the mill wall mart, and pick up a sack full of cheap run of the mill turkey calls, but there will not produce the sweet turkey sounds like a hand tuned custom call. Oh, no there not even close to sounding like a real life wild turkey.

The realism that only comes from a handmade and tuned custom call made by a real turkey hunter and award winning custom pot call maker, like Tim Oldham jr, owner of Creek Botom Calls.

Tim is an avid turkey hunter good friend fellow NWTF member and multiple award winning custom turkey call maker. Tim talks the talk, and walks the walk from his modest workshop in in southern Indiana. You can check out Tim’s Blog, and give his award winning pot calls a good look at http://creekbottomcalls.blogspot.com/

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