Locater Calls

[Rebelfisher]

Curious as to which locater calls everyone prefers?? Owl calls...great horned or barred owl??
I, myself use the barred owl hoot and crow

[dan_lais]

crow for me.we seems to have alot where we hunt.i usually wait to hear a crow caw then the green light is on for me to let er' eat!

[bogmanjr]

Owl if it's not real light yet, crow after daylight.

[bamaboy]

owl from just before light to an hour after daylight. Then I go to the crow call...

[stka]

Slamming the truck door  , then owl for a while.  After they're on the ground a boat paddle (box call), there are so many crows where I usually hunt they don't respond to it well.

[Rebelfisher]

Ive had them gobble a few times after slamming the truck door as well! I guess whatever floats their boat. Ive seen coyote calls too...which I would be hesitant to use since my area is loaded with them, and turkeys are already call shy b/c of that...even though I know its an impulse gobble, I dont think Id want to use it.

[hooknhunter]

I'm kind of partial to a gobble shaker.  Seems to work pretty good here in Idaho where they get crow-called and owl-hooted to death.

[Rebelfisher]

I just saw a peacock locator call in the new cabelas spring turkey catalog...where are peacocks in the U.S.??

[stka]

I saw peacocks in FL years ago in Disney.

[CAPTJJ]

Funny story from last Spring, had a friend on his property that has some nice birds, he has a good amount of land but it's somewhat broken up and has a couple narrow spots. Anyway there are usually some hunters on neighboring properties, the first morning there I kept hearing a peacock and figured someone was using a call. Later on when we were talking about the hunt, he had a strange look on his face when I mentioned hearing a peacock call. Being a newbie he didn't know much about making them shock gobble then he said that the neighboring farm has a peacock.

I also remember some people with too much money had a pet peacock at their summer house a mile or so up the road from me. I used to hear it all the time, they're loud.

A gobbler shaker around here is going to call in too many other hunters. The owl hooters and crow calls work, I'm thinking of trying a pileated woodpecker call this year for something different; see and hear lots of them.

[Rebelfisher]

I have a pileated woodpecker call, but never used it...

[St.Croix]

I like the gobble shaker up heah in the northeast as well. Crow and owl don't seem to get them going

[rjhulbert]

heard good things about the woodpecker but haven't used it yet good luck with it