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@Tony Caggiano being that you have killed Turkey’s in almost every single state, feed us some knowledge…. Best states? Worst states? Easiest birds? Hardest birds? Biggest birds?

Whats in your current call quiver? Slate over copper? Cooper over slate? Whats your preferred mouth call at the moment? Best box call ever made? Etc. etc.
 
With the way they like to beat there dead best friends up after they are dead I am not sure you need to worry as much about the 1,2,3 shoot.

I was throwing shit out the blind trying to scare the bird off my turkey. Then I think it may have been the same one that came in the next day that my kid whacked.
 
Here is another good memory… This was maybe the best year we had up at our annual Vermont Turkey camp week….. We laid em’ down this morning…. These were actually NY tags, we were right over the VT border on my buddies other piece of property….
 

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Pete Correale said:
@Tony Caggiano being that you have killed Turkey’s in almost every single state, feed us some knowledge…. Best states? Worst states? Easiest birds? Hardest birds? Biggest birds?

Whats in your current call quiver? Slate over copper? Cooper over slate? Whats your preferred mouth call at the moment? Best box call ever made? Etc. etc.
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Heading to Mississippi on Thursday, first time in the state. If I kill there it will be my 34th state.

Don’t have a best or worst state. A couple of my favorites are Missouri for big Easterns, and California for Rio Grandes.

Turkeys are turkeys, no subspecies is easier or more difficult to kill. The difference is pressure. The harder the birds are hunted the more difficult it can be to kill then consistently. I have found Gould’s to be more call friendly in general, but once again, that is likely the product of hunting wild ass birds which have next to zero pressure day to day.

Mouth diaphragms are my go to call. I usually use homemade ones which I build myself, but for store bought calls I am partial to Zink diaphragms and old school Primos double stacked calls. I think many people can’t turn them over well so they don’t realize just how raspy you can get them, or their range.

I also play pot calls regularly. Still rocking a 20+ year old MAD Calls Titanium and Aluminator. Range on these are insane. Can play soft for in close or Rip it and make your eardrums bleed.

My buddy Paul Butski gifted me one of his Maestro Morning Wood box calls a lifetime ago, and I still carry it daily. It’s a favorite for striking birds while running and gunning.
 
gelhaargerald said:
With the way they like to beat there dead best friends up after they are dead I am not sure you need to worry as much about the 1,2,3 shoot.

I was throwing shit out the blind trying to scare the bird off my turkey. Then I think it may have been the same one that came in the next day that my kid whacked.So
gelhaargerald said:
With the way they like to beat there dead best friends up after they are dead I am not sure you need to worry as much about the 1,2,3 shoot.

I was throwing shit out the blind trying to scare the bird off my turkey. Then I think it may have been the same one that came in the next day that my kid whacked.
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You can file this under a Possible, Maybe, Sometimes.

I’ve seen more birds hit the road after the shot than not. Not sayin it doesn’t happen, but big old birds generally don’t stick around after the shot.

To be fair I’ve killed those who have, but I’ll never pass on a bird in hand.
 
Kyle Wright said:
Mostly Rios here in Oklahoma. We do have some Easterns and even a few Merriams out in the panhandle. Keep the pictures coming! I think turkeys are beautiful.
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Hunted western Oklahoma a bunch years back, them the numbers took a hit heard they are coming back though, may need to plan a group hunt out there soon.

One hunt I had over 50 Jakes roaming in one flock come into the dekes. Insane
 
Tony Caggiano said:
Hunted western Oklahoma a bunch years back, them the numbers took a hit heard they are coming back though, may need to plan a group hunt out there soon.

One hunt I had over 50 Jakes roaming in one flock come into the dekes. Insane
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Yeah, there was a time when it wasn’t unheard of to see flocks of over 100 birds. Our season limit went from three birds to one five or six years ago. And they pushed our season back ten days. Seems to have made a difference. Lots of birds in Oklahoma.
 
Tony Caggiano said:
Heading to Mississippi on Thursday, first time in the state. If I kill there it will be my 34th state.

Don’t have a best or worst state. A couple of my favorites are Missouri for big Easterns, and California for Rio Grandes.

Turkeys are turkeys, no subspecies is easier or more difficult to kill. The difference is pressure. The harder the birds are hunted the more difficult it can be to kill then consistently. I have found Gould’s to be more call friendly in general, but once again, that is likely the product of hunting wild ass birds which have next to zero pressure day to day.

Mouth diaphragms are my go to call. I usually use homemade ones which I build myself, but for store bought calls I am partial to Zink diaphragms and old school Primos double stacked calls. I think many people can’t turn them over well so they don’t realize just how raspy you can get them, or their range.

I also play pot calls regularly. Still rocking a 20+ year old MAD Calls Titanium and Aluminator. Range on these are insane. Can play soft for in close or Rip it and make your eardrums bleed.

My buddy Paul Butski gifted me one of his Maestro Morning Wood box calls a lifetime ago, and I still carry it daily. It’s a favorite for striking birds while running and gunning.
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The OG speaks! Listen up boys!!!……. I’ll get fuckin’ raspy on your ass!!!
 
Tony Caggiano said:
You can file this under a Possible, Maybe, Sometimes.

I’ve seen more birds hit the road after the shot than not. Not sayin it doesn’t happen, but big old birds generally don’t stick around after the shot.

To be fair I’ve killed those who have, but I’ll never pass on a bird in hand.
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Ya my sample size is small. The two times I have had doubles come in and killed one the other sat there and beat to piss out of the other.

Both these were old big birds.
 
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