CHURCH MOUSE CALLING
IF YOU THINK ABOUT most hunters who might set foot on the same public land as you, they probably aren’t great callers. They have also, probably, bought into the less-is more calling style. We’ve had this engrained in us since the only good(ish) turkey hunting advice was coming out of the Southern swamps, way back when the Northern states didn’t even have viable bird populations.
Obviously a lot has changed since then, but it’s still common to hear turkey experts (and nonexperts) preach the benefits of conservative calling. When it comes to most of my public-land hunts, you could call me a contrarian on this front.
When I was in high school some Missouri longbeards on public land taught me that they’d fire right up at 11 in the morning, but only if my hunting buddy and I gave them something to get fired up about. We did, mostly because
