The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-07

piece of cane tightly fitted into one a
little larger is good Callers can be
made by inserting the smaller bone of
the turkey wing into the larger one. A
blade of grass or a leaf can be made
to talk" just like turkey in the hands
of an expert. Some callers use nothing
artificial at all, but do the calling with
their throats. Occasionally one hears
OF live gobbler from the barnyard
being used for decoy in the gobbling
season. An old turkey hunter in a
Southern state had famous live decoy
turkey by means of which he had killed |
many a fine gobbler He would carry !
the big fellow to the woods in a sack, |
tie him out to brush, and them make |
him gobble. Time and again Wild COB
blers would slip up to trim the in
truder only to get a place in the sack |
for their reward.
But one day the old hunter did not |
get there soon enough. "Old Pete" the /
live decoy. was tied out as usual He
gobbled vaingloriously and in a jiffy
there was a Hopping and rustling of
wings. The hunter sped to the scene
of the fight as swiftly as possible, but
with all his speed, he was too late.
The wild turkey had put out both of
Pete's eyes and then made off like
lightning at the first glimpse of the
hunter. Old Pete was wrecked and
ruined and he soon died.
Extreme caution and rare skill must
be employed in calling up a turkey
The caller must he an expert. The wild
turkey is not only wary, but is very
intelligent He can detect a single
false and unnatural note, and on hear
ing it he will race off as fast as he can.
The caller must remain absolutely mo-
tionless after turkey comes in sight.
The slightest movement can be de-
tected by the sharp eyes of the bird.
Again, it is important to keep still be
cause there is no telling on which side
the calling the bird may appear The
sly old fellow may answer on one side
of hunter and then circle him AMI
slip around behind.
The three senses of sight, hearing
and smelling are acutely developed in
turkey Not only this, but the bird
flies swiftly and can out run the aver
= age dog. A wounded turkey-and the
, hardy bird can stand lot of shooting
will run for miles and miles If the
) shot is a close one best results are OBJ
! tanned by shooting the bird in it's long
5 neck. No. As in the body. with plenty
. of powder behind them, will do the
: work well. Some turkey hunters use
2 small buckshot altogether. An old
5 peculiar method of shooting buckshot
: at turkey and deer from a full choked
2 gun It was No. 10 guage, with 80
S inch barrel. The old man would split
. his buckshot as though he would use
e them for fishing, and then string them
= on piece of fax or silk, each one half
f an inch apart. After putting them in
e the shell he would pour melted tallow
r until it filled the shell. With five
T. drachms Of black powder behind this
n charge of "chain buckshot" all of them
G hat might cover. and deep Judgement
8, too.
v Every turkey hunter will declare that
e the most beautiful picture in nature is
furnished by a great bronze gobblel
r strutting in a clearing in the woods, the
Il sun revealing the green and purplisi
n tints Of the handsome plummage. anC
e rejecting their copper and bronze. II
it calling a gobbler fayorite plan is tC
\, beat in the leaves with a hat or a cal
a while yelping. The gobbler thinks {
II is on. In the first event, he comes t.
ID make fight: in the latter. to take
lie hand in the battle of the forest.
a Many turkey caller has had thu
n experience of a bird slipping right NJ
to him ere aware of his presence On,
ID turkey hunter sat and watched a spo
where some turkeys had been eatini
lie corn. AS he kept vigil a turkey slippe'
b. by and was swallowing the corn with
or out the hunter ever having seen TIL
d. bird get there This shows how silen
IS and stealthy is a wild turkey. TIL
ir birds have a wide range and one neve
Ig knows just where he will run up o.
W them. so he must be ready. In the sun
rs mer and fall they go in droves. In lat
~ winter the gobblers sometimes go tt
m gether An expert can scatter a drov
N and frequently call up eight or ten an
kill them.
b. A fact not generally known abou