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<blockquote data-quote="FlGunner" data-source="post: 3034408" data-attributes="member: 94240"><p>Here in North Florida I locate most of my birds by owl hooting….I hoot just enough to get a couple real owls to answer me and then I start listening. Only call more if I have to. I start early before Gobblers generally get going on the roost. I use a crow call occasionally but I let the birds tell me what they want.</p><p></p><p>To the OP… The general purpose of locator calls is not to give away your position…what I mean by that is that if you start calling to a bird by yelping/cutting or whatever type turkey call to locate a bird that will work too, but he may come in quiet and you spook him away because you wasn't ready, he sees ya or whatever. If you don't get an answer from a bird, it doesn't mean he ain't there. So my approach is if I got to I call and sit a while. </p><p>As far as locator calls, I like using an owl first at just before daylight, then after sun is up I use a hawk call. I find it more successful during the morning and mid day. Afternoon hunts I generally locate off of hen yelps and soft calling. Here afternoons can be as good or better than mornings. A lot of old birds that are henned up of a morning get lonely in the early afternoon when they go to nest. </p><p>But if everyone in your area is blowing a crow call (public land), I'd try a hawk or something different. Pressured birds get educated quick.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FlGunner, post: 3034408, member: 94240"] Here in North Florida I locate most of my birds by owl hooting….I hoot just enough to get a couple real owls to answer me and then I start listening. Only call more if I have to. I start early before Gobblers generally get going on the roost. I use a crow call occasionally but I let the birds tell me what they want. To the OP… The general purpose of locator calls is not to give away your position…what I mean by that is that if you start calling to a bird by yelping/cutting or whatever type turkey call to locate a bird that will work too, but he may come in quiet and you spook him away because you wasn’t ready, he sees ya or whatever. If you don’t get an answer from a bird, it doesn’t mean he ain’t there. So my approach is if I got to I call and sit a while. As far as locator calls, I like using an owl first at just before daylight, then after sun is up I use a hawk call. I find it more successful during the morning and mid day. Afternoon hunts I generally locate off of hen yelps and soft calling. Here afternoons can be as good or better than mornings. A lot of old birds that are henned up of a morning get lonely in the early afternoon when they go to nest. But if everyone in your area is blowing a crow call (public land), I’d try a hawk or something different. Pressured birds get educated quick. [/QUOTE]
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