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John's Journal... Entry 186, Day 3

COMPETITION CALLING VERSUS CALLING DURING A HUNT

Cutting

EDITOR'S NOTE: Chris Parrish of Centralia, Missouri, has entered turkey-calling contests for 19 years and has hunted wild turkeys for 24 years. The winner of five Grand National Turkey Calling Championships, four World Turkey Calling Championships, two Mid-American Turkey Calling Championships, the U.S Open, 10 Missouri State Championships, two Illinois State Championships and many regional titles, Parrish won the 2002 Mossy Oak/World Turkey Calling Championship.

QUESTION: What about using cutting in competition?
ANSWER: A real hen doesn't just start cutting but rather begins slow with clucks, then builds the intensity of the call by speeding up the clucks and raising the volume and excitement of the call until she reaches the peak of her cutting series. Then she'll start calming down and cluck slower and softer as her excitement level decreases. That's the rhythm and sequence of calling I follow when I'm in a contest.

QUESTION: How do you use this tactic differently for a day in the woods?
ANSWER: If I'm using this call when I'm hunting, I won't go through the same routine that I do on the stage where I have a set number of notes I try and make flawlessly to produce the perfect cut. When I'm hunting, I may give two or three or five or 10 excited clucks and yelp in places I don't put yelps in during a competition. My cutting call in the woods won't sound anything like it does when I'm competing. Too, I'll only use cutting when I'm hunting if I feel I need to build the excitement level of a gobbler that's somewhat reluctant to come in to me. Cutting isn't a call I use very often. If I can simply cluck and yelp to get a gobbler to come to me, then I don't cut to him.

TOMORROW: CLUCK AND PURR AND THE ASSEMBLY CALL

 

 

Check back each day this week for more about COMPETITION CALLING VERSUS CALLING DURING A HUNT ...

Day 1 - Tree Call
Day 2 - Clucking and Yelping
Day 3 - Cutting
Day 4 - Cluck and Purr and the Assembly Call
Day 5 - Parrish's Favorite Call


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