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Calling Gobbler Following Hens (Video Included)

Wade's World Hunting: Scenario: You slip up on an open field, and there’s one or more wild turkey gobblers strutting behind a flock of feeding hens. This is a tough situation, but it’s not impossible. Where do you set up and how do you call to get one of the gobblers to break away and come to you?

  • Note the direction of travel, then ease back in the woods so the turkeys can’t see you, and circle to get in front of them.
  • After relocating the turkeys visually, crawl up to the edge of the field and set up with your shotgun propped on your knee, pointed toward the field.
  • Begin calling very quietly with a slate or mouth call, making subtle yelps broken by clucks, purrs and whines.
  • Don’t quit calling! If a gobbler answers you, keep making the same calls. If he starts your way, don’t let up. Make your calls almost like turkey whispers – very passive.
  • This is a difficult situation. More times than not a gobbler will stick with his hens. But sometimes he will leave them and come to the inviting sounds of a “new hen” in his territory. Also, if a sub-dominant gobbler is strutting with a dominant gobbler, he may break and come your way while the old gobbler continues following the flock.