As spring turkey hunting is just around the corner...what off the beaten track locator calls are used-- -- when things get tough

[the decoy hunter]

As spring turkey hunting is just around the corner...what off the beaten track locator calls are used-- -- when things get tough and quiet in the spring woods....goose calls...mallard duck calls....train whistles...thunder....have at times illicited a response...what does everyone else pull out of the bag of tricks in springtime?

[Marcus]

Id say an owl hooter would be the most natural!!!!! Or crow call..........

[neuman23]

I was hunting a little ways off the road one time. A car came by and honked at a deer that was taking its time to cross. This car honking generated a gobble.

[Smitty18]

I have gotten responses from a car door slams, .22 bullet hitting a pop can, tree falling, and me sliding down a hill taking every leaf down with me.

[pineywoods]

Coyote howlers, pileated woodpecker calls and hawk calls are all legitimate shock gobble elicitors. Yelping loudly on a tube call works well, too. I've heard them gobble at factory whistles, police sirens, bellowing cows, braying jackasses and tugboat whistles, but not on such a reliable basis that I'd want to try to carry any of them with me.

[charlie elk]

An Elk Bugle.
If they are going to gobble it never fails anywhere it is tried.
later,
charlie