ON CALLERS AND CALLING 185 



be considered when in quest of the turkey, and 

 the knowledge of how to do it is difficult to im- 

 part to others. 



There are four distinct calls of the wild turkey 

 one should become familiar with to become an 

 expert turkey hunter; these are the call of the 

 young hen, the old hen, the young gobbler, and 

 the gobble of the old male bird. The latter is 

 almost impossible to learn, and I have seen but 

 two or three men in my life who could imitate the 

 gobble. The sound is made with the throat, and 

 I know of no way it can be taught. The notes of 

 the hen turkey consist of a variety of quaver- 

 ing sounds such as are given by the domestic 

 fowl, but which require study and practice, with 

 the best devised caller, to imitate. The plain 

 yelp or " keoiv-keow" are the chief notes to learn, 

 and once mastered and employed in concert 

 with the cluck, will usually be all that is neces- 

 sary in calling turkey, be it a flock of scattered 

 individuals or an old gobbler (in the gobbling 

 season), but it would avail nothing on the lat- 

 ter at any other time. " Keoiv-keoiv-keow" or 

 "heow-hee-kee" "cut," "cut" — these are the 



