Nothing better than a bunch of roosted thunder chickens waiting on you in the morning. No such luck here, I’m hunting a wheat field with no birds roosting on it but I see them here throughout the day. My question is if I’m settled in here for the long haul today waiting on the birds, how often should I blind call? How aggressively? Any other advice for this more patient type of turkey scenario when I can’t go running and gunning looking for a talker.

Call little and call softer then you think you need to if you get loud and aggressive they might expect your coming to them so play kind of interested rather then full blown excited. No need to reply to every gobble skip a few replies before you reply as he gets closer call softer so he thinks your walking off.

Soft Purrs and whines drive a hot gobbler nuts and remember everyone yelps a lot so they hear that a lot mix it up yelp less as you get into it.

About once every half hour

If they are in the fields during the day they are roosting close enough to gobble in the morning They might not be because it’s so dang cold here in Ky each morning Hottest bird I every seen was after lunch after a rain and sun popped out They’re like mushrooms then popping up everywhere
Big thing is don’t let them see you coming in It’s not always the best to get in before they fly down

Thanks for the replies. I heard them roosted and a hen on the ground this morning, across the road a 1/2 mile or maybe a little closer on a different landowner. Then they shut up, and I have seen one hen since, she was by herself crossing the field maybe an hour after sunrise. I have not heard any gobbling since they flew down. I was calling every fifteen minutes, but have started waiting thirty or so. Hopefully they come cruising over to check out my decoys eventually. Thanks again for the advice

This^. Follow this to a T. I would also add in some ground scratching to act as though you would rather eat than pay him any attention. When they go into their strut zone and you stay where you can hear the gobbler but don't go towards him, it frustrates the snot out of him. If he starts walking away, give some yelps and a few cuts to bring him back. Then go to soft clucks and feeding sounds.

Be the flirty little school girl.

What they said.

Are you using a decoy? Is it legal. One trick that is gospel about gobblers that go silent around here. IF the stop gobbling when they hit the ground they are with a hen. Set up in your spot and yelp call like he's coming to you. Then stop. If he is with a hen when he breeds her you are next in line. They know where you are and will be along sometime. Might be an hour , might be 3 hours . But follow the calling advice given . You will be ok

And be very watchfully as they might come in silent.

Got one strutting and gobbling about 250 yards out but not getting closer. Time to start purring lol

My dad preached call softly and less than i think i need to. I read comments on here and other articles saying dont call too often. Someone needs to tell some of the hens ive come across who wont shut up that theyll never find a mate as loud as they are if all these things are true. I am a fairly aggressive caller. As the bird responds and i can hear it getting closer or its at least talking with me, i either go quiet or go real soft and subtle. But to elicit an initial response, i would call for a short time-5-6 yelps, but i go pretty loud and aggressive. And i call somewhat seldom-whenever i wake up. I want it to carry a ways and i want to sound like im down for whatever. These turkeys arent always looking for a nice girl to take to mom. Toss the mouth call in the trash. Ur hands can be free to hanner on a slate or box till that bird is somewhat close. At that point-shut up he’ll find u.

*Notice he just said hes stuck in a field they may or may not come through-seems they hang on the perimeter of the permission he has. Some response seems to be geared toward working a bird as its coming in. In your case id stay loud and infrequent. If you have a silent bird come in then so be it. Glass everything you can before you hammer out some sweet sweet love music each time. You could have a strutter in a depression in the earth and just pick out a rotating fan tip u wont notice with thr naked eye. THEN id work in some purrs and subtle clucks. But u arent benefiting from not reaching out to birds that are out a long ways. Ive called two birds within range i watched come from a half mile and the other maybe pushing a mile. Both birds crossed a gravel road and a fence in each ditch. You think those were coming in initially to soft yelps??

Congrats

yesssssss

It was perfect the last 60/70 yards he was so mad I quit yelping back to him, I’d just purr and scratch the ground, and he’s gobbling like “can’t you hear me!” Thanks for the advice. This was an awesome hunt

Nice going! Season opens tomorrow for me. Hope my buddy wacks one first, the thrill aint in the shootin its in every single second up until the triggers pulled.

Dwc that’s the truth, it’s a rush for sure

What i love about turkey hunting is there is so much you are doing. And the hunts can go so many different ways, you can call them off the roost and they’re very vocal, you can talk to the hen and drags them in, or

you can go to a 80 acre wheat field where you’ve seen birds before, and set up with your decoys in a crick running through the property before sunup, hear them calling in the roost west of you and spend all morning looking that way before you hear a faint gobble behind you to the east about mid morning, move over to that side of the crick without decoys and start working a gobbler 200 yards across a wheat field to you. I learned a lot this morning, I cut and yelped while he was way off then softer as he got closer then just purred and scratched to seal the deal.