The Old-Time PHD Gobbler

By Justin Stakes

By John E. Phillips

United States -(AmmoLand.com)- Forty or 50 years ago, a hunter only called a turkey in one way.

If you found a gobbling bird in the woods, you’d sit down and call to him. You’d give two clucks and three or four yelps, put your call on the ground, sit there and wait on the turkey.

If the turkey came in, you shot him. If the turkey didn’t come in, you didn’t shoot him.

Then about 25-years ago, I discovered a new kind of turkey hunting called cuttin’ and runnin’.

This type of turkey hunting was completely different from the way the old-timers hunted. I’d cut and cackle, get a gobbler fired-up and keep calling to him until he came in to where I waited on him. I was as hot as a firecracker on the fourth of July. I thought this new style of hunting was much more exciting, fun and productive than yelping three times, clucking once or twice and then not calling anymore.

One morning I’d fired-up a gobbler that came toward me. I …Read the Rest

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