fall turkey calling

[JGaruti3]

How do you guys differ your calls from the spring during fall season?  I read the kee kee run is good to use?  What are your strategies?

[furman_ny]

Break up a flock, sit tight awhile and they will start callin to each other, I kee kee and yelp every time I hear a bird call, try to be the most vocal and they will come. Works for me.

[ADKSasquatch]

Agree with furman.  The key to breaking up a flock though is to have them scatter rather than seperate into groups.  If they don't scatter, you wind up competing with larger numbers that sound safer.

[JGaruti3]

How do you break up a flock though?  Do you need to find them roosting?  Is it possible to use the same strategies to locate the roost in the fall like you use in the spring? 

[ADKSasquatch]

Wait until they're off their roost.  I like to scatter then while they are scratching and feeding in the woods.  Best way I've found is to try and pattern them so that you know roughly where they'll be.  Then, and this is important, PUT YOUR GUN DOWN.  Sneak up on them, as close as you feel you can get.  Then get up and run into the flock.  I like to go "BOOGIE, BOOGIE, BOOGIE!" as I do so.  Once they're scattered, move about 20 yds away, set up, give it a few minutes, then start calling.  Other than that, a dog is your best bet, or a kid.  ;D

[Doc]

"BOOGIE, BOOGIE, BOOGIE!"?  ;D  I love it!!

[ADKSasquatch]

"BOOGIE, BOOGIE, BOOGIE!"?  ;D  I love it!!

Yup, stole it from Porkies....

[VenaticOutdoors]

You can kick them off the roost too - they will come back to that area.  It helps to kee kee yelp or kee kee run softly to gain their attention, but I like to imitate the sounds of the other birds.

[Pygmy]

The kee kee is an effective call,  but remember that those poults want to get back together with thier Mama..I usually just hen yelp.. It will call in hens, poults, and once in awhile even a gobbler...

If you happen to be lucky enough to scatter a flock of gobblers, You need to know how to do a gobbler yelp...The cadence is slower than a hen, perhaps about  2/3 the speed, and they tend to yelp fewer notes...Limit your strings to 3 or 4 yelps.. One thing that gobblers often do that I have seldom heard hens do is to give a SINGLE yelp...Single coarse clucks work  also..Gobblers often regroup with just an occasional cluck....

[nyslowhand]

I was out in the woods today and I heard the weirdest noise.

Thought it was a neighbor hunting predators.

It sounded like the distress pup yelp used for fox or coyote, series of 3-4 every 5 minutes or so.

I hunt turkeys and have heard all their kewies, clucks, purrs, putts, yelps, gobbles, etc - was nothing like I've ever heard.

Eventually I saw them and couldn't believe it actually was turkeys.

Maybe it was just a young one trying to yelp...?

Weirdest noise!!!

[Pygmy]

Hehehehehe... Yeah, Slowhand... Years ago it seemed like whenever I heard a noise I couldn't identify in the woods..It turned out to be a turkey....

After hunting them for 45 years, I think I have heard MOST of thier sounds, but I suspect that they will still surprise a few more times..

[Mr VJP]

A lot of my fall turkey hunting is like deer hunting.  I just head to a spot I know they like to feed and wait for them to show up.  I've taken lots of turkey this way.  They just show up eventually moving through my property and when they get in range I take one.  It's like hunting deer from a stand.

I call every now and then, but those big flocks just ignore that.  If they won't come close enough, I'll run into them and break them up.  But most times I know where they travel and just sit and wait for them.  They do follow a regular feeding and travel pattern in my area.