We’re all familiar with a raspy hen yelp and a thundering tom gobble. But wild hens and gobblers make many turkey sounds beyond these two vocalizations. Each of these sounds express specific meanings.

Pennsylvania’s Matt Van Cise can yelp, cluck and cut with the best turkey callers in the world, but when he heads afield for a spring gobbler hunt, he abides by a very simple philosophy — give ’em ...

For this old turkey hunter, it has always been difficult to figure out the female of any species. But hen turkeys seem especially problematic. Even as recently as a couple years ago, my belief was ...

As soon as the snow melts every spring, Dana Page begins his daily routine of walking into the deep woods to cluck and crackle in the dawn light. Mimicking turkey hens yelping is the only way for ...

I know a few successful turkey hunters who never use a mouth call. They bring their gobblers in with slate calls and have no problem killing them close. But, all of the truly expert turkey hunters I ...

The loud, challenging yelping was the first verification I had that morning that there were turkeys in the woods. It was a hen. Something had upset her and I yelped back hard and fast. She answered ...

When I started turkey hunting back in the '70s, I was told repeatedly that the hens go to the gobbler, not vice versa. That meant that when we hunters used a turkey call to imitate a hen yelping, ...

“THERE ARE few men today who can fool a wild turkey gobbler in the spring of the year,” the turkey hunter said. “Now, I don’t say I’m the best turkey caller in Louisiana, or anything like that. I’ll ...

I consider myself a good turkey hunter. And early season hunts verified that assessment. Alabama yielded a gobbler very responsive to my verbal pleadings, an exciting hunt, an end with a bang, ...