To call or not to call

[bucknduck]

I was just about to call it a night when I remembered that I was going to share this story:

This past weekend I was really excited about getting my new mouth call, so we get home from the Birch Run expo and I'm watching Turkey Tech University 2 and practicing my mouth call in between working on other projects when I hear a conversation coming from the kitchen.

My wife and 2 1/2 yr old daughter were debating on what my calling sounded like.
Daughter: "Its a chicken"
Mommy: "No, I think it sounds more like a whale"
Daughter: "No Chicken"

Keep in mind that my daughter knows the difference between a duck call, goose call, and turkey calls. This debate went on and on and I pretended like I didn't hear them while thinking to myself, Chicken? Until I started really listening to my calling and I had to disagree with both of them because I thought I heard a hint of Canada Goose calling. In fact I caught myself at one point trying to do a hail call.:SHOCKED:

So after all of this, I wondering if I should probably stick to using other tactics of turkey calling and leave the mouth calling alone?

[davidshane]

Keep working on it, hands free calling is a great weapon to have in the arsenal. It's also a little more fun to call with IMHO.

[wyle_e_coyote]

Keep working on it, hands free calling is a great weapon to have in the arsenal. It's also a little more fun to call with IMHO.

Yea, when it tickels the roof of your mouth..LOL

[Steven Arend]

The fun really starts when that tom sneaks in behind you and let’s go with a gobble and startles you and you just about have that mouth piece all the way down your throat. :yikes:

Steve

[Gobblerman]

The fun really starts when that tom sneaks in behind you and let’s go with a gobble and startles you and you just about have that mouth piece all the way down your throat. :yikes:

Steve
No joke that just about happen to me last year in Missouri :lol: . Sounded like he was gobbling in my year!

[ShallowRio]

My most favorite thing in this world is building GREAT sounding Box Calls and I wont go to the woods with out a mouth call. Its more than hands free, its versatility, and thats what will make you a Turkey hunter. The right sound for the right Gobbler on the right day is half the trick. You have gotta do your part for the rest to fall into place.

[Thunderhead]

You need a reference to practice to. I have many, many tapes with the Pro's and actual hens doing their thing.

Practice, practice,practice.

[mich buckmaster]

Just remember that NO TURKEY sounds the same. You can make mistakes on a big old wise gobbler, just not too many ;)