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 “Turkeys to Learn By…..
Volume One”, a TurkLine Series product by
Cody Turkey Calls. This unique instructional
audio CD is the first ever assembled that
will actually teach hunters “How-To” call to
the wild turkey by using real turkey footage
digitally recorded in the woods.
You will find the more
you listen to real wild turkey hens, paying
particular attention to what and how they
call, you will begin to call with more
realism and confidence. This audio CD
contains nothing but real wild turkey calls;
you will not hear any manmade calls. We
have recorded the most used and heard calls;
the plain yelp, excited yelps, and short
yelping, the flying cackle, cutting of
excited hens, and a segment devoted to
gobbler and hen interaction. This CD is
formatted so the listener can hear these
calls made by real wild turkeys repeated
three times on the same track, each series
separated by a few seconds. After you listen
to the call, pause or stop the CD and
practice till you get it right. Remember,
repetition is the key to effective
memorization, thus the key to effective
communication with that spring gobbler.
Ingrain these sounds into your memory.
After all, isn’t it real wild
turkeys we are trying to imitate?
Yelping
The yelp of the wild turkey
is one of the most widely used calls that
turkeys make on a daily basis. Many people
think the yelp of the hen is a mating call
used in the spring to attract gobblers.
Although the yelp will stimulate a gobbler
in the spring and make him gobble, yelping
of hens can be heard year round in the
turkey woods. Yelping can be categorized
into several types of yelps. Some of the
more popular ones are the plain yelp, the
excited yelp, lost yelping and assembly
yelping, and the tree yelp. The calls that
follow have been grouped into Plain yelping,
Excited yelping, and Short yelping.
Flying Cackles
Turkeys fly at least twice a
day, and many times during the day, when
they take fight if spooked or alarmed. Many
times when turkeys take wings they will
cackle, which is a short series of
staggered, high pitched, fast clucking or
cutting. The flying cackle can contain
anywhere from 1 to 25 or more notes has the
turkeys fly. Track 39 is from a hen that
just yelped a few times from the limb then
cackled once as she flew down. Turkeys are
usually the most vocal in the mornings and
hens seem to cackle more than gobblers;
therefore the fly-down cackle from the roost
trees is a very effective call to get a
gobble to respond. On many of the recordings
you will also hear the unique sound of the
wing beats as the turkeys sail to the
ground.
Cutting of the Excited Hen
Both gobblers and hens will
use Cutting which is a series of very fast
erratic clucking with a distinct sharp note
that “pops” when the turkey is really
getting excited. This call is the closest
call a hen turkey has to a mating call,
although the gobble is the only true mating
call of the wild turkey. Cutting is a great
call to use when trying to cover large areas
and gobblers will respond to cutting very
well. Hens use cutting in the spring to
attract gobblers, but it is also used year
round when the turkey’s level of excitement
builds for whatever reason. Cuttting can be
a short, very fast burst, or a longer series
containing as many as 60 or more clucks or
cutts. Listen to the hen we captured on
track 53. You heard her excited yelping
earlier with a certain pleading quality
sound. Here we captured her on another day
as she broke into some excited yelping and
cutting. The tracks here were hens cutting
in the early spring of the year. Most had
gobblers within hearing range and some were
a show of dominance to other near-by hens.
Hen Interaction with Gobblers
The gobble of the wild turkey
is what all turkey hunters want to hear
while hunting. Gobbles can be heard for
miles in certain terrain. The gobble is used
by male turkeys in the spring to attract and
call female turkeys to their position.
Although I have seen and heard hen turkeys
gobble and strut, but this is very rare.
Gobblers will gobble all year but the most
gobbling takes place in the spring. As the
days grow warmer and longer after winter the
gobbler’s hormones begin to change and
breeding starts to become very important to
them. Depending on where you live, gobblers
will start to gobble as early as February in
the central part of the country. Of course
the hens are not interested in breeding this
early so, the gobbling activity will
continue until it reaches the first peak in
early spring. After the hens become
receptive to the gobblers advances, and
breeding begins, the gobbling activities
slow down and the hunting can become hard
and frustrating. During this period the
subordinate gobbler with still come to the
call, but they usually come without gobbling
in fear of the dominate tom in the area.
After breeding and the hens begin nesting
longer each day, the gobbling starts to
increase until the second peak of gobbling
is reached. Hens are gone a large portion of
the day, and gobblers are gobbling and
searching from mates. In areas with little
hunting pressure, this is an excellent time
to harvest a longbeard. As the hens progress
into hatching and tending to the young
poults, the gobbling activity also slows
down and the gobblers begin to regroup into
gobbler and jake flocks as the molting
begins into the summer months.
The tracks here
were recorded right before the spring mating
season begins when gobblers are gobbling and
hens are calling. Track 63 was recorded from
a jake in late fall. These recordings of
gobbler and hen interactions really help
show what and how to hold a conversation
with that spring
longbeard.
All turkey hunters
love to hear the gobble of the wild turkey.
We spend countless hours each year scouting,
hunting, and talking about the pursuit of
America’s number one game bird. One very
important aspect of each hunter’s arsenal is
his ability to communicate with the wild
turkey.
With the recent
growth of turkey hunter population taking to
the woods each year to try to bag a spring
gobbler, two main skills need to be honed
and sharpened to the best of your ability.
These two important skills are woodsmenship
and calling to the wild turkey. Since
turkey hunting pressure continues to
increase each year, every hunter wants to
possess that special skill or tactic that
will set him up for success in the spring
woods. During the spring mating season it
is often easy for beginning turkey hunters
to get a longbeard to gobble at his
calling. Many beginning turkey hunters
harvest a gobbler in their first couple of
seasons of hunting, although some are not as
lucky. The hunters that bag spring gobblers
consistently year after year are usually the
guys that have done their homework in
scouting, have the ability to blend into
nature, and know how to talk turkey to a
weary old longbeard in order to coax him
those last few yards into shooting range.
During a
conversation with a gobbler, it is the soft
talk or flock talk that will give him the
security to find his way to you. Like
humans, turkeys communicate emotions through
tone, pitch and inflection. For instance,
one hen may sound very raspy and course when
she yelps, whereas another hen may
have a very clean, clear yelp. We have
recorded some hens with the ability to
change her own voice from a crisp, clear
tone to course and raspy. Since all turkeys
sound a little different, we have included
several turkeys making the same call, so be
aware of the differences between each
individual turkey. When in the turkey
woods, pay attention to cadence and
inflection in order to communicate
effectively with that most coveted gobbler.
You will find the
more you listen to real wild turkey hens,
paying particular attention to what and how
they call, you will begin to call with more
realism and confidence. This audio CD
contains nothing but real wild turkey calls;
you will hear no manmade calls. We have
recorded the most used and heard calls; the
various yelps, the fly-down cackle, cutting
of excited hens, and a segment devoted to
gobbler and hen interaction. This CD is
formatted so the listener can hear these
calls made by real wild turkeys repeated
three times on one CD track, each series
separated by a few seconds. After you listen
to the call, pause or stop the CD and
practice till you get it right. Remember,
repetition is the key to
effective memorization, thus the key to
effective communication with that spring
gobbler. Ingrain these sounds into your
memory.
After all, isn’t
it real wild turkeys we are trying to
imitate?
Track 1
Introduction (3:50)
Track 2
Yelping Introduction (2:00)
Track 3-16 Plain
Yelping (5:00)
Track 17
Excited Yelping Introduction
Track 18-22 Excited
Yelping (6:15)
Track 23
Short Yelping Introduction
Track 24-34 Short
Yelping (3:10)
Track 35
Flying Cackles Introduction (2:20)
Track 36-49 Flying
Cackles (2:00)
Track 50
Cutting of Hens Introduction (2:00)
Track 51-56 Hen
Cutting (3:30)
Track 57
Gobbler & Hen Interaction (4:00)
Track 58-64 Gobbling
with Hen Calling (4:15)
Track 65
Ending & Future Projects (1:15) |
