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Eastern turkey will be the ones that don't respond to your call. Lot smarter birds!

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Yea, I tend to agree. Those Easterns can be some onery birds. I find that you need to adjst your calling by toning it down, and using more purrs, whines and soft talk than yelping and cutting with Easterns.
After I harvested my Eastern last year, I took and buddy and his son out. Slid the old long box out and cut loudly when I didn't receive any replies to my soft calling, and lo and behold two big Easterns answered, It wasn't long before we had two more in the bag. Just shows that sometimes, even wily Easterns go against the grain.

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This might be quicker, where are you planning on hunting this Spring?

If you are hunting in any of the following 43 counties then it does not matter whether you shoot an Eastern or a Rio Grande, the bag limit is One Gobbler.

Angelina Bowie Brazoria Camp Cass Cherokee Delta Fannin Fort Bend Franklin Grayson Gregg Hardin Harrison Hopkins Houston Hunt Jasper Lamar Liberty Marion Matagorda Montgomery Morris Nacogdoches Newton Panola Polk Rains Red River Rusk Sabine San Augustine San Jacinto Shelby Smith Titus Trinity Tyler Upshur Walker Wharton Wood

If you are hunting in any of the following 101 north Zone counties, you can kill up to 4 Rio Grande strain Gobblers during the Spring season, if you did not kill any during the Fall season:

Archer Armstrong Baylor Bell Borden Bosque Briscoe Brown Burnet Callahan Carson Childress Clay Coke Coleman Collingsworth Comanche Concho Cooke Coryell Cottle Crane Crosby Dawson Denton Dickens Donley Eastland Ector Ellis Erath Fisher Floyd Foard Garza Glasscock Gray Hall Hamilton Hardeman Hartley Haskell Hemphill Hill Hood Howard Hutchinson Irion Jack Johnson Jones Kent King Knox Lampasas Lipscomb Llano Lynn Martin Mason McCulloch McLennan Menard Midland Mills Mitchell Montague Moore Motley Nolan Ochiltree Oldham Palo Pinto Parker Potter Randall Reagan Roberts Runnels San Saba Schleicher Scurry Shackelford Somervell Stephens Sterling Stonewall Swisher Tarrant Taylor Throckmorton Tom Green Travis Upton Ward Wheeler Wichita Wilbarger Williamson Wise Young

Here are the 54 south Zone counties where you can also take 4 Rio Grande strain Gobblers if you have the tags:

Aransas Atascosa Bandera Bee Bexar Blanco Brewster Brooks Calhoun Cameron Comal Crockett DeWitt Dimmit Duval Edwards Frio Gillespie Goliad Gonzales Guadalupe Hays Hidalgo Jeff Davis Jim Hogg Jim Wells Karnes Kendall Kenedy Kerr Kimble Kinney Kleberg LaSalle Live Oak Maverick McMullen Medina Nueces Pecos Real Refugio San Patricio Starr Sutton Terrell Uvalde Val Verde Victoria Webb Willacy Wilson Zapata Zavala

Lastly, in the following counties you can only take 1 Rio Grande strain gobbler during the Spring season:

Bastrop Caldwell Colorado Fayette Jackson Lavaca Lee Milam

All you have to do is check and see what counties you will be hunting in and what the regulations are for that/those counties are.

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Ask em!

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Ha! What call pattern is it to ask what kind of turkey they are? Is it cluck cluck purrr?