Mastering The Slate: How To Turkey Call

This guide, drawing from Mossberg's Master's Series featuring Jason Cruise and Harold Knight, focuses on mastering turkey call inflection for more realistic hen sounds. It emphasizes choosing a call that suits the user, practicing varied tones, and incorporating subtle techniques like 'fall offs,' 'skip notes,' and 'pick up and drop off' to avoid monotone calling. The instruction highlights that hens are not perfect and mixing up calling patterns is key to attracting gobblers.

This guide, presented by an expert from Mossberg, details the three essential turkey calls: the yelp, cluck, and cut. It emphasizes that perfect calls are less important than sounding like a hen and highlights the critical role of silence in successful turkey hunting. The instruction draws on wisdom from legendary hunters like Tom Kelly and Ben Rogers Lee.

This YouTube video provides a comprehensive guide to selecting the ideal pot call for turkey hunting. The content creator meticulously analyzes various pot call surfaces, including slate, aluminum, glass, and crystal, explaining their acoustic properties. A personal recommendation is given for a crystal over aluminum combination. The video further explores the impact of different striker materials, specifically walnut and purpleheart, on sound production. This resource is designed to assist hunters in choosing a pot call that delivers the necessary volume or subtlety for successful turkey encounters.

This video, presented by a Mossberg representative, details a critical mistake made during a turkey hunt: a lack of patience. The speaker, an experienced hunter, reflects on how impatience led to losing a gobbler. The core lesson emphasizes waiting at least 30 minutes after the final call, especially for new hunters, to allow the bird to commit or move off, creating new tactical opportunities. The content highlights regional differences in hunting patience and shares personal hunting experiences to illustrate the point.

This video focuses on the art of turkey hunting, emphasizing that success goes beyond simply calling. It highlights the wisdom of legendary hunter Ben Rodgers Lee, who stated that turkey hunting involves one-third calling and two-thirds strategic setup and understanding the turkey's mindset. The video showcases Jason Cruise of Mossberg's Rugged American Hunter demonstrating the ideal response from a tom turkey, which isn't just a gobble. The firearm featured is the Mossberg 835 Ulti-Mag, a renowned shotgun, utilized with a micro-dot optic.

This video explores the learning curve of a new turkey hunter, country music songwriter Jasper Charles. As part of the "StartUp" project, Jasper reflects on his initial experiences and identifies patience as a key lesson learned, crucial for success in turkey hunting. The video focuses on the challenges and mental aspects of becoming a turkey hunter, using his personal journey as a relatable entry point for beginners.

This video provides an expert-level overview of the Mossberg 590M magazine-fed shotgun, presented by Jeremy Stafford, who demonstrates its features and tactical advantages. The demonstration highlights the ease of use, reliability, and versatility of the 590M, including its various magazine capacities and ergonomic controls. Stafford's high authority level, stemming from combat experience and detailed engineering knowledge, underscores the informative nature of the content.

This video provides a high-energy, tactical overview of the Mossberg 990 AfterShock semi-automatic firearm. It highlights key features like the AfterShock Grip, M-LOK system, oversized controls, and 5+1 capacity. The demonstration emphasizes its suitability for tactical applications and ease of use in dynamic scenarios, presented with a promotional tone from the manufacturer.

Learn a crucial duck hunting decoy mistake: ducks spooking when all decoys face the same direction. Jason Cruise demonstrates how real ducks orient uniformly before fleeing. To avoid this, vary decoy keel weight placement, causing them to face different directions and mimic a relaxed flock.

This guide details the operational cycle of the Mossberg 500/590 pump-action shotgun, as explained with detailed 3D animations and precise nomenclature. It covers loading, feeding, chambering, locking, firing, extraction, and ejection, emphasizing the mechanical sequence for safe and effective operation. Instruction is provided with high authority, suitable for intermediate users.