It's taking me forever to figure out how to use a mouth call for tukeys. Does practice just make perfect?
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It's taking me forever to figure out how to use a mouth call for tukeys. Does practice just make perfect?
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Take a small diaphragm call, place it in the middle of your tongue, open end of the "U" facing out, press it against the upper roof of your mouth, and say "Choke!" Keep it pressed up there while saying it. Don't choke. But you should almost be choking. Have it good and back there.
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It took me a week just to make any sound at all. Just kept on practicing and changing the way I held the call in my mouth until it sounded right. I prefer a raspy old hen call. BTW you can kill a lot of birds with nothing but 5 to 7 yelps and a few clucks. Purring is good, cutting, etc helps but if you can yelp and cluck that is all you really need. A loud box call is best to start with in the wide open spaces. Then I use a mouth call to finish a close bird. a cluck will usually cause him to raise his head for a better shot. Try not to shoot a strutting bird. His neck is hard to hit and you will likely put shot in the breast. Note that no two hens sound exactly alike. The rythm of your yelps are more important than the tone. I have heard real hens that sounded like a rusty gate swinging in the wind.
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