Locator calls?

[ZachMarkus]

How many of you rely on locator calls to locate a bird or get one to shock gobble? I find myself using them less and less. I haven't used my crow call in a long time, not sure if I even still have one. I do have an owl hooter that I will pull out if I don't hear any other owls and the birds aren't gobbling but usually if I wait long enough a real owl will start hooting.

10 years ago when I was really getting serious about turkey hunting I thought I couldn't go to the woods without my owl hooter and crow call in my vest, and a bird wouldn't gobble mid day unless I blew my crow call to make him[emoji2]


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[PickettSFHunter]

I use mine quite often. I don't go around just blowing one all the time but will use one to pinpoint a bird.


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[Setterman]

I don't own one, don't use one, and find them detestable

 

[Southern Sportsman]

If for some reason turkeys don't gobble on their own in the morning, I will owl, but I dont use or cary a call for that. I have a crow call somewhere in my vest but rarely use it. Only when I'm moving on a bird and need him to gobble to track him, but I'm not in position to call at him yet.

 

[Tennessee Lead]

I use mine quite often. I don't go around just blowing one all the time but will use one to pinpoint a bird.


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[REN]

I have an owl call I carry and have use a few times during the season. generally where I hunt I dont need one but if im hunting fresh ground I will use it if nothing has made a sound. once the sun is up I never use one though and to be honest if I lost my owl call at some point I wouldnt even replace it.

 

[TheAirMan]

I use an owl in the morning if I'm not hearing anything. I have it on a double lanyard with a crow call. I rarely use the crow call anymore.


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[String Music]

I use a crow call fairly often. It's a useful tool for me. I use it primarily to keep tabs on a gobbler if I'm out of position and can't kill him where I am.




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[TreyB]

I use a crow call if I don't know where they are roosting at. On a weekend hunt I will use it a couple of times.

 

[woodsman04]

Use locators rarely. I can owl pretty good with my voice, I will use it on occasion. but I believe that on pressured birds you can lock them up. I think crow calls are worse than other locators because googans drove four wheelers and trucks around blowing there lungs through them followed by a wet dog bark box call, peacock, then the sound of a four wheeler driving away again.
Sometimes a little while later a bird may gobble again when he thinks it's safe.


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[Buzzard Breath]

I use mine quite often. I don't go around just blowing one all the time but will use one to pinpoint a bird.


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[PalsPal]

Doesn't this one come up every year?

If used properly they serve their purpose.

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[FARMTOFIELD]

I hoot with my mouth, very rarely have I heard a turkey gobble at a crow

 

[Longbow2240]

I use a crow call quite a bit. Mainly mid day and I'm on the move. It's helps to pinpoint where a bird is at. Very helpful on hilly terrain. Keeps from walking right up on birds and take a risk on bumping them.

 

[Roost 1]

NEVER...

 

[MickThompson]

I've got 1 of each in my best but couldn't tell you the last time I struck a bird with one.


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[poorhunter]

I own a crow call...I think. The guy that showed me the ropes back in the 80's could hoot perfectly with his voice, so that's what I do. I do NOT sound very good, but it is successful on roosted birds especially at last light. I'll even just scream/howl to roost one. Locator calls...nope.

 

[cbhunter]

Hoot with my mouth. That's bout it


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[deerduck38201]

Owl at dawn to locate if I'm unsure of roost location. It has saved me many steps when I thought they would be in one place but in reality they are somewhere totally different. After they tip their hand as to their location it goes back in my vest.

 

[PalsPal]

Owl at dawn to locate if I'm unsure of roost location. It has saved me many steps when I thought they would be in one place but in reality they are somewhere totally different.

Exactly.

While non-users are losing valuable time waiting to pinpoint an exact location, we're already setup.

They are especially useful when I've heard a bird at a distance, and after I've cut that in half (I thought), and check him again he's almost always closer than I thought.

Several years ago I heard one on the back of our place in the predawn. From the faintness of the gobble, I was sure that he was over the crest of the hill down toward the creek. However, when I got close and before crossing the flat, I decided to check with my owl call. He thundered from 80 yrds :shock: ! I sat down, waited for time, and gave him soft stuff to which he walked right to me after flydown. Without the owl call, I would have walked right under him and the game would have been over.

 

[PickettSFHunter]

For whatever reason, I don't have much luck with owl hoot locally, the crow is better for me locally. But last year in South Georgia on public land, owl hoot located 2 different birds for me of an evening after they had gone to roost. I killed both of those right after flydown by being set up right on them.


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[bobbuck]

I don't own one, don't use one, and find them detestable

Kinda be hard to use one if you don't own one!

 

[Mike Belt]

I've used them before but I seldom do now. When I do I usually just owl call by mouth.

I've hunted around watery areas before and had turkeys going crazy over a wood duck call.

 

[TLRanger]

I don't use them but they are very useful............I know where Elmer is because he constantly hoots, caws, squeals, screams, crows, and makes all
kinds of noises. :mrgreen:

 

[megalomaniac]

I owl hoot with my mouth in the dark to give me an idea of where the birds are roosted to get as close as possible for my initial set up in the mornings. After setup in the dark, I prefer to the the tom gobble on his own to confirm I'm close enough. Once he does that, I then make the decision to stay put (I'm close enough), or to move in closer. I don't call as a hen in the mornings until about 15 minutes before I expect flydown unless I haven't heard a peep anywhere that morning and plan to just stay where I'm at for at least another hour.

After I'm up running and gunning, and do not know if there are birds anywhere nearby, I'll periodically call with my mouth with a sound that is a mix between a crow call and a peacock. I've found that it produces way more shock gobbles back than either the crow calls I used to own or the peacock calls I used to own. Again, after I get one shock gobble back, I'm closing the distance as fast as possible to get set up to yelp and cluck him into range.

During the daytime, if I know birds are in the area, I don't use any locator calls, slow way down, and move using hen calls only.

Been doing it this way for about 10 years, and seems to work very well. Plus fewer calls to carry with all the other accessories in my bag.

 

[elknturkey]

I don't. They are really handy on keeping tabs on other hunters tho

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[Gravey]

I have a crow call and owl hooter in my vest but couldn't tell you when I used them last especially the crow call. I try to wait on the birds to gobble on their own. Earlier in my turkey hunting days I had a screaming peacock that I had more success with than the crow.

 

[turkeyhunter]

Hooter, crow call, woodpecker, im considering buying a coyote howler because the yotes located some birds for me last season.

 

[TheAirMan]

I have had some success using a coyote howler. I have stopped using it though. Although I never used it where I set up and it may not matter, I just figure a turkey isn't going to want to fly down around where they just heard a coyote.


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[catman529]

I carry a crow call and use it occasionally. I don't rely on it, but it has told me the location of a few gobblers