Terry Hiers is an expert with most any call made, but he does have some he saves for specific situations.
“I never go to the turkey woods without a tube call,” he said. “They are loud and have the ability to be heard long distances, so they also make excellent locator calls, but they can be so subtle. There’s a huge range of calls that a hunter can make with these calls, based on the situation you’re in. They are good in the wind and unaffected by rain or cold or heat. They have a distinctive sound that is often unique to a hard-worked gobbler. I’ve used it on many occasions to take a bird that was call-shy.
“The tube does make the best fighting purrs I’ve ever heard,” Hiers said, “and that can be an outstanding call to get a old gobbler fired up and is certainly something hunters should have in their bag of tricks. It’s not a call that a lot of hunter use, but it can be extremely effective, and the volume you can get using a tube call is ideal. I’ve used that on many occasions to get gobblers going crazy when other techniques didn’t work on that particular day.”
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