#turkey calling

Stood up!

I don't where these guys were Tuesday morning. Looking for love, perhaps, in all the wrong places, on the other side of our woodlot.

I was waiting for them before dawn, in my pop-up blind, overlooking a hen decoy.

Just at daylight, when turkeys fly down from their roosts high in the branches of the hardwoods, I became involved in a promising conversation. Me, with my wooden turkey call; tom, with his silver tongue.

Me: "Er ... er ... er ... screech, screech ...er .... er..."

Tom: "Gobble ... gobble ... gobble ... gobble ..."

I repeated myself, he repeated himself. It soon became apparent, however, that the gobbles were growing fainter. He was headed in the wrong direction.

It was starting to feel like we were jinxed, or at least that our tactics were jinxed. We were almost an hour into our third set up of the morning, and aside from some very curious jakes that were eager to die (and for the better part of twenty minutes I was very, very tempted to oblige them) the mature toms had been cagey and spooky of our positions. The most recent bird had skirted wide of us…

Turkey Calling 101

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Turkey Calling Class April 11

Learn the art of turkey calling from Nebraska Game and Parks Commission experts during the Turkey Calling 101 class at Lincoln’s Nebraska Game and Parks Outdoor Education Center. Set for April 11 at 6 p.m., the workshop will teach participants how to communicate with the wild turkey, increasing their chances of calling in this exciting game animal. Topics will include various calls made by the…