Best Turkey Drum & Mouth Call

[nickmarch]

 

[Fred Flintstone]

Maybe Drums could work  in a hunting situation?    Just a Joke.            What does your little Aluminum Box sound like.

[nickmarch]

13 minutes ago, Fred Flintstone said:

Maybe Drums could work  in a hunting situation?    Just a Joke.            What does your little Aluminum Box sound like.

Drums do work!  Probably better than any conventional turkey call.  I have something new and easy but I'm not ready to show it yet.  I have to buy some equipment first.

The aluminum box is a $3 piece of aluminum tubing.  It sounds great to me but the frequency is to high so it wont sound great to a turkey.

 

[Fred Flintstone]

2 hours ago, nickmarch said:

Drums do work!  Probably better than any conventional turkey call.  I have something new and easy but I'm not ready to show it yet.  I have to buy some equipment first.

The aluminum box is a $3 piece of aluminum tubing.  It sounds great to me but the frequency is to high so it wont sound great to a turkey.

 

I have had good Luck with Aluminum. Traditional Slate seems to get much less of a response since the mid 1990s.

[nickmarch]

36 minutes ago, Fred Flintstone said:

I have had good Luck with Aluminum. Traditional Slate seems to get much less of a response since the mid 1990s.

Slamming a door gets a response.  The guy in the drum video making noises with his mouth got responses. Crow calls, owl calls, peacock calls ect get responses.  What I want is for the toms to show up even if they are with hens.  That's why I'm working on calls that bring in toms, Jake's and hens.  

[Fred Flintstone]

16 minutes ago, nickmarch said:

Slamming a door gets a response.  The guy in the drum video making noises with his mouth got responses. Crow calls, owl calls, peacock calls ect get responses.  What I want is for the toms to show up even if they are with hens.  That's why I'm working on calls that bring in toms, Jake's and hens.  

Your Ceramic Calls are good for fairly close Turkeys. Called in both a Hen and a Tom that saw me first.

[nickmarch]

42 minutes ago, Fred Flintstone said:

Your Ceramic Calls are good for fairly close Turkeys. Called in both a Hen and a Tom that saw me first.

My ceramic calls are at the range of frequencies that turkeys hear best.  

You are thinking volume.  A turkeys hearing frequency range is a lot shorter than a humans frequency range.  They hear a short range but they hear it from a farther distance.  They are tuned in to and hear slight differences in the range that they hear.

Many think high frequency calls like the aluminum calls that are loud as hell work well because they get a response. The load noise you hear isn't frequency it's volume.  Low frequencies travel much farther.  

15,000 Hz won't travel far at all.  At my age I can't hear 15,000hz.  See if you can hear it...

https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/

 

Edited June 14, 2020 by nickmarch

[Fred Flintstone]

18 hours ago, nickmarch said:

My ceramic calls are at the range of frequencies that turkeys hear best.  

You are thinking volume.  A turkeys hearing frequency range is a lot shorter than a humans frequency range.  They hear a short range but they hear it from a farther distance.  They are tuned in to and hear slight differences in the range that they hear.

Many think high frequency calls like the aluminum calls that are loud as hell work well because they get a response. The load noise you hear isn't frequency it's volume.  Low frequencies travel much farther.  

15,000 Hz won't travel far at all.  At my age I can't hear 15,000hz.  See if you can hear it...

https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/

 

I  usually use Aluminum at a medium Volume. 

[Fred Flintstone]

2 hours ago, Foggy Mountain said:

Guys I might be out of the loop here somehow but those don’t seem like or sound like completely wild turkey. The type we’d be hunting. In my yard they’ll walk right up to you to, almost to touching distance. 
Next gobbler sounds already work on hens, jakes n gobblers. So do kee Kees at times. That’s about what the birds were gobbling at, his whistling a kee kee. 
idk about the rest but if it wasn’t a turkey sound, for instance a drum type sound or something I’d personally have zero interest in using it. Seems today most guys care more about the end result than how they got there so a call w magic would sell to many

You bring up a good point.  Personally, I have had much better luck with High Pitched calls as opposed to Super Raspy Calls.     I Hike Year round and have hunted 31 Springs and another 30 Fall Seasons and have yet to hear any Hens Yelping as Raspy as some of these Super Raspy Diaphragms.   When, I hear them, I know it is another Hunter.  

[nickmarch]

13 minutes ago, Fred Flintstone said:

I  usually use Aluminum at a medium Volume. 

There are different types and thicknesses, anodized, not anodized, ect.  They all sound different.  The easiest way to find out what frequencies its putting out is to get a free phone app and use it in a quiet room.  You need a audio spectrum analyzer.  Turkeys hear from about 250hz to about 5250hz. I think the optimum vslue stzted in the study was about 60 decibels.   Thats not very loud.  Above 60db hurts their ears and would cause shock gobbles.

Edited June 14, 2020 by nickmarch

[Fred Flintstone]

On 6/13/2020 at 5:16 PM, nickmarch said:

Drums do work!  Probably better than any conventional turkey call.  I have something new and easy but I'm not ready to show it yet.  I have to buy some equipment first.

The aluminum box is a $3 piece of aluminum tubing.  It sounds great to me but the frequency is to high so it wont sound great to a turkey.

 

   When, I worked in a Dog Food Warehouse- this guy in the Shipping area was playing with a very large Sheet of Aluminum. 

    Probably 3 Feet wide and 1 foot high.  He kept working that huge Sheet of Aluminum back + forth and to me over in the packing area-- it sounded JUST LIKE THUNDER!!

       It has been said in print that if a Turkey call could be made to sound just like THUNDER- Turkey Hunters would be FAR More successful!

    Why?--- Because ALL GOBBLERS will Gobble to Rolling Thunder as most here are probably already aware of.  No " Pecking Order" in this scenario ! ALL The Gobblers will Gobble at Rolling Thunder. Even the Lowest Ranking Gobbler will Gobble at Rolling Thunder.

   It is no secret that many Turkey Hunters over the Decades were very successful during periods of Rolling Thunder.     I wish there was a Call Small enough to bring into the Turkey Woods to duplicate Thunder. It would probably work in the Fall as well.

   What do you think Nickmarch??

[bushden]

OMK How am I going to carry my drums out into the woods. If they call call turkey like that I guess I am going to have to bring a full set out the day before. Does anyone know if the cymbals are needed or just the drums

[Fred Flintstone]

    For a THUNDER CALL, guess, I could get an App on my Smartphone and " Hit" THUNDER.  Get plenty of Gobble Responses!  Thats a Joke- LOL!

   Seriously, If a Thunder Call could be developed- alot more Hunters would be bagging Gobblers.

[Bucndoe]

On 6/14/2020 at 1:41 PM, Foggy Mountain said:

Guys I might be out of the loop here somehow but those don’t seem like or sound like completely wild turkey. The type we’d be hunting. In my yard they’ll walk right up to you to, almost to touching distance. 
Next gobbler sounds already work on hens, jakes n gobblers. So do kee Kees at times. That’s about what the birds were gobbling at, his whistling a kee kee. 
idk about the rest but if it wasn’t a turkey sound, for instance a drum type sound or something I’d personally have zero interest in using it. Seems today most guys care more about the end result than how they got there so a call w magic would sell to many

Turkeys will gobble at the sound of a truck door slamming. What worked today won't work tomorrow. It all depends what mood they are in

[Fred Flintstone]

1 hour ago, Bucndoe said:

Turkeys will gobble at the sound of a truck door slamming. What worked today won't work tomorrow. It all depends what mood they are in

I Agree with that.