Long season with close encounters, Finally- a dead Turkey

[prcn]

Turkey April 2024.jpg

Spartanburg County near Lake Blalock
Gobbled on the roost good, set up on a cow pasture edge. Cows were between me and the 3 gobbling on the limb.
I got set up and noticed a coyote at 60 yards mixed in with the cows.
I lip squeaked and he ran in to 20 yards but a cow was laying down right behind him about the same time he smelled me and turned and high tailed it.

I didn't hear the birds fly down but they went quiet for a few minutes and I called, and they immediately cut me off over the hill in the pasture just out of sight.
They gobbled at everything and anything and finally crested the hill at 60-80 yards and strutted just out of range and all I could see was head and neck and fans.
They couldn't find the hen and would not come in. I stopped calling and they would drift off out of sight just over the crest of the hill.
I got real aggressive calling and they turned and came back and answered everything with double gobbles etc but would not get any closer than before.

I let them drift off again and tried scratching in the leaves and calling softly. They would gobble but not get closer.
I got real aggressive again and they gobbled they finally circled the cows and came on in.
Dead at 6:55 AM

[We Jeep Inn]

Nice!

[PharmHunter]

Good stuff! Love that little QB pushpin.

[prcn]

That call is 20 plus years old and has called in a pile of turkeys. It has become a running joke amongst my hunting buddies because the damn thing works and kills turkeys and it's a cheap call I got 25 years ago when I started learning to turkey hunt. I have a copper slate from Ricky, I have box calls and other high-end calls, but nothing works for me like the sound this call makes.

[Hogg]

One of my good friends has been using one of those calls for 20 years and he kills them dead.

[Simple Man]

Hell yeah.

I've got an old Loftis Chatterbox somewhere in my stuff I need to resurrect. That brings back some memories....

[Sasha and Abby]

woohoo!!

[Catdaddy]

Good job for sticking with them and making it happen.

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[PharmHunter]

That call is 20 plus years old and has called in a pile of turkeys. It has become a running joke amongst my hunting buddies because the damn thing works and kills turkeys and it's a cheap call I got 25 years ago when I started learning to turkey hunt. I have a copper slate from Ricky, I have box calls and other high-end calls, but nothing works for me like the sound this call makes.

Absolutely! Keep killing em with it.

[WhitewaterDuck]

Congrats. A guy I was hunting with in Indiana let me borrow one of those calls, because I hadn't figured out how to use a mouth call well and I could not find my slate...and it was the easiest, best sounding call I've ever used. I've bought a couple of others that look like it, but they don't come close to that easy yelper. I killed a bird with that call first time out, and it was the first bird I actually worked and called in. He wouldn't sell it to me.

[turk]

Im with simple man back in the 80"s when i used to go to all the calling contest. I talked to Mr. Loftis when i saw him. Chatterbox was a good little call !

[Coastal Woodie]

Good stuff!