I'm new to the sport of turkey hunting what is the best calling sequence to start of with in the morning and if the bird hangs up how long do you wait till you reposition. Please only experienced and succesfull hunters answer.

There really is not a best sequence. If the bird is still on the limb just some soft tree calls yelps and clucks like the hen is waking up and checking on her tree friends to see where everyone is. Then when everybody is awake a fly down cackle and let the Boss tell you what you need to do. Some like it loud and raspy others like it soft and sweet.

Before moving on a hung up bird try to see what is hangging him up most of the time it is terrain. If it is not the terrain stop calling and scratch in the leaves like a hen feeding, ever see a hen feed 2 scratches with the left leg and 2 with the right.

What part of the country do you hunt?

First of all, welcome to the world of turkey hunting Aaron! dhb is on the right track with the calling. During spring, before the toms leave the limb, I like to do some soft tree yelps. The call's are very soft, like the hen is just waking up. If you get a tom to gobble back at you, depending how close he is to you (hopefully, you roosted one the night before) is how loud your next call should be. If he gobbled at your call, you don't need to call anymore. He knows where you're at. No matter how many times he gobbles at you, do not call anymore. The more you answer his gobbling, the longer he'll stay on the limb. Once he hit's the ground, the gobbles will sound farther off or away from you but he's not. Sometimes, he'll sneak in and spit and drum only or he might come a run'n gobbling all the way. You just have to have patience. Let him be the guide to your calling. We call that "taking his temperature". When he hit's the ground and shut's up all of a sudden, it's because he's with real hens or something spooked him. Let him come looking for 'you'. Nature say's the hen goes to the gobbler but it works both ways. Sometimes you'll get a stubborn ole bird (trophy) that refuses to come to your calls. Don't go after him unless you know for d*mn sure that you are the ONLY one there! And you know the terrain like the back of your hand. Never ever, try to sneak up on a turkey. Turkey hunting rule number one: SAFETY! If you see someone trying to sneak up on you, call OUT LOUD with your voice, NOT a turkey call. NEVER wear any red, white or blue colors. Not even day glow stuff.
Anymore questions, just ask. The only dumb one is the one you don't ask!

Thanks for the info guys now all I need to do is find some private property here in wisconsin that I can hunt so I don't have those guys walking in on me thinking I'm a turkey

Dubbl OOgly ol Grizz is rat on with advice....
If Tom has left me with his hens who roosted with him, I start moving about an hour later, soft at first, then loud lost hen calls, here a gobble go to it and get real quite with soft calls, no luck by around 10 in the morning, back to roost site and start soft hen clucks----he may come back looking for a Ho he missed serving....

So i found a peice of property that looks promising to having birds on it the only problem i see is the wood line is the highest place in the woods then it goes to field where would one set up in this senario if you have roosted birds the night before on the edge of the tree line?

Posted By aaronvan on 09 Jan 2013 04:53 PM
So i found a peice of property that looks promising to having birds on it the only problem i see is the wood line is the highest place in the woods then it goes to field where would one set up in this senario if you have roosted birds the night before on the edge of the tree line?

Aaron, first of all you stated that it LOOKED promising to having birds. You have to know if there ARE any. Second of all, you need to give us a little more info on the land. Like, how many approximate acres is the property? How many approx acres is the woods? How long is the wood line? How wide is the wood line? How thick are the woods? What type tree's are in the woods? What type country are you hunting in? North, south, east or west? Break it down a little more for us. 

It looks like it as i have seen tracks most concerning is the coyote kill i found as far as the property ive only been there once and its a VPA in south central Wisconsin the woods are approx at the widest 150 to 200 yards by about 1000 yards long and tapers to a spear point that faces east. There are all kinds of hardwoods in the forest and its all a rolling terrain, the whole piece is about 185 acres of woods and fields if you want an aerial view i can post the Lat&Long so you can look at it on Google Earth other than that i didn't venture in the woods as i was scouting for hunting coyotes

That's a good start aaron! What I would do, while yote hunting, is look about half way up the entire ridge all the way around it for white scat on the tree's and especially on the ground. Look for J shaped scat. That' a tom. Look for loosed feathers. If you're there early enough in the morning while yote hunting, listen for birds to fly down. They make a lot of racket early in the morning. Look for scratchings in the leaves. Scratchings next to tree's, rocks and logs are made by toms. In the open by hens.
If I was going to hunt the place "blind", I would start at the top of the hill. Tom's like to travel uphill, rather than down, to look/call for hens so it's easier to call them up to you. You CAN call them downhill however. Even across hollows to another ridge. I've done it before. But when that happens, I sound like more than one hen. I use either a slate and box call combo, box call, mouth call combo. You get the picture. And don't worry about how the calling sounds. Real hens sometimes sound worse than you do!
Another question for you. Do you know if there's a woods road or two track on top of the hill? If there is, that's great. Then all you have to do is find out where the tom likes to strut his stuff.