I just started hunting in FL and have yet to hunt turkey. I'm on a lease up around Perry and I am going up for turkey this weekend. I was up there a couple of weeks ago and two hens came up to the feeder I was sitting at and I got a picture of one of them through my scope. And let me tell you taking a picture through ur scope with a cellphones not too easy at first. haha.
I heard a couple gobbles in the morning when I was up there so there are some toms in the area. So I'm getting ready and just bought a combo pack of calls called the "Super Strut Combo Kit" that came with a glass friction call, double d diaphragm, a crow call and an owl call. I'm having a little trouble with the diaphragm call but I'm getting the glass down pretty good. What are the good diaphragms to learn on or are they all about the same? If I'm trying to roost a bird which locator call should I use and when should I be going out and trying to do so? I'd appreciate any other tips you guys might have as well.
Don't know much about turkey hunting, but taking a cell phone pic through a scope, while centering the crosshairs on a turkey is pretty badass, I doubt I woulda ever thought to do that.
I heard a couple gobbles in the morning when I was up there so there are some toms in the area. So I'm getting ready and just bought a combo pack of calls called the "Super Strut Combo Kit" that came with a glass friction call, double d diaphragm, a crow call and an owl call. I'm having a little trouble with the diaphragm call but I'm getting the glass down pretty good. What are the good diaphragms to learn on or are they all about the same? I have found the Quaker boy "Old Boss Hen" to be about the most versatile/easy to use on the market. Its a double reed that is fairly raspy, but still can get the high pitch. Practice, practice, practice is the only way to get it
If I'm trying to roost a bird which locator call should I use and when should I be going out and trying to do so? I'd appreciate any other tips you guys might have as well.Go out the last hour and half before dark. Birds will usually fly up about 30 min before sunset. Listen for wings flapping when hey fly up. A tom will sometimes gobble when they fly up for the night. When trying to roost a bird, I usually don't call much, just listen. If you have light wind, you can hear them for a good ways off. As for a locator call, IMHO you cannot beat a crow call. The birds this weekend were gobbling at the crows big time
That is a hard pic to do. I tried to do it a couple years ago with a doe standing at my feeder. I bet I took 15 pics and never got one to come out decent. That was with my point n shoot cam
Haha, yeah that was about take #12.
What you studying here at USF? I'm about a year out from a microbiology degree myself.
