Use a range of calls in your turkey vest to call in your fall bird. (Steve Hickoff photo)
By Steve Hickoff
If you’ve heard fall turkeys don’t talk, you’ve got some bad information. Cold calling for fall turkeys—whether on foot or from a blind—is a tactic to locate or pull in birds you don’t see. You’ve likely picked a spot where you’ve found fresh turkey sign, or even seen and heard birds.
How To Do It
When on foot, you can kee-kee, cluck, hen or gobbler yelp to strike a bird. Think of this as fall locator calling. In such situations, a variety of “wild turkey sounds” can draw a response.Often enough too, you might simply hear birds in the woods or fields while listening intently when you’re not calling. As safety...