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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
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