Mastering The Slate: How To Turkey Call

This guide, drawing on the wisdom of Tom Kelly and demonstrated by a Mossberg instructor, focuses on the three essential turkey calls: the Yelp, Cluck, and Cut. It emphasizes that effective turkey hunting relies heavily on woodsmanship and understanding turkey behavior, rather than perfect call execution. Mastering silence and knowing when to stop calling are highlighted as critical skills for success.

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.

Instruction from Jason Cruise on improving hen turkey calls for hunting. The video emphasizes listening to real hen turkeys to understand their natural, quick cadence, contrasting it with slower, less authentic yelps. By adopting a faster, cleaner, and slightly raspy vocalization, hunters can more effectively attract gobblers by sounding like a genuine hen.

This guide, presented as part of Mossberg's Master's Series, focuses on mastering turkey calling inflection. It emphasizes selecting a comfortable call, avoiding monotone sounds, and incorporating natural variations like 'skip notes' and 'pick up/drop off' techniques. Even with basic calling skills, mixing up your sounds can increase effectiveness in the field.

This video demonstrates a big woods turkey hunting technique in New Hampshire, focusing on strategic calling and patient positioning. The hunter, Steve, utilizes a Mossberg shotgun with a red dot optic and a mouth call to locate and harvest turkeys. The guide highlights the importance of assessing turkey locations, moving stealthily, and adapting calling strategies based on responses, culminating in successful shot placement after an initial miss.

This video focuses on late-season turkey hunting strategies, emphasizing how wild turkeys become more wary and educated after being exposed to various hunting tactics. Host Jason Cruise, from Mossberg's Rugged American Hunter Series, shares insights on adapting calling techniques, the importance of mobility, patience, and timing. The video showcases the Mossberg 940 Pro Turkey shotgun and discusses strategies like toning down calls, using passive hunting methods, and minimal decoy use to outsmart pressured birds.

The Mossberg 590M is a new-for-2018 magazine-fed pump-action shotgun chambered in 12 Gauge. It features double-stack magazines available in 5, 10, 15, and 20-round capacities, offering significant tactical advantages for quick ammunition type switching. The design incorporates milled receiver lugs and dual extractors for enhanced reliability, and its ergonomics include an ambidextrous safety and a unique helical magazine release.

The Mossberg 990 AfterShock is a compact, semi-automatic 12 Gauge shotgun designed for tactical applications and home defense. Key features include an enlarged loading port, oversized safety, M-LOK attachment points, and the specialized AfterShock grip. It offers a 5+1 capacity and demonstrates rapid cycling during live fire.

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 video provides a detailed 3D animation of the Mossberg 500/590 pump-action shotgun's internal mechanics. It breaks down the complete firing cycle, from loading shells into the magazine tube to extraction and cocking. Key components like the bolt lock, elevator, hammer, and sear are explained in relation to their function during each stage of operation.