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 ...

Calling wild turkeys in the fall lacks the excitement of hearing thunderous gobbles in response to calls made when hunting spring gobblers. Fall calling, however, can be just as effective in ...

BLACKHAWK — Phil Martinelli planted his feet firmly under a stand of tall oak trees, popped a plastic disc in his mouth, and blew a call of the wild. “Yelp. Yelp. Yelp.” The crisp morning air echoed ...

In addition to the familiar gobble of the male, wild turkeys produce a wide vocabulary of sounds, each communicating something exact to other turkeys in the area. (Watch and listen to the accompanying ...

May the best gobbler win. Turkey callers gathered at the Great Outdoors Show in Perry Saturday for a calling contest. 14 people competed in two divisions, junior and senior, to see who could make the ...

If you want to talk turkey during the spring gobbler season, then you have to listen to the experts. Hen turkeys. Much has been written about how to lure a lovesick gobbler within shotgun range. Video ...

The idea of spring turkey hunting is to dress like a bush; sit in front of a wide tree to protect your back from errant shots by other hunters, and make sounds like a hen turkey. When the gobbler ...

About half of the remaining calls will be placed in a duffle bag which will stay in the truck during the hunt. Also in that bag will be extra gloves, extra face masks, extra decoy stakes, a couple ...

Dogs bark and pigs oink. But the turkey has many calls, making a Cedar Key biologist's book on the subject a must-have for hunters. Dogs bark. Cats meow. But the wild turkey does not live by the ...

There are thousands of turkey calls on the market, and just about any of them will work fine for yelping up a gobbler. Designating one call as being “better” than another is tricky. A pot call’s sound ...