A kee-kee or kee-kee-run is the maturing lost whistle of a young turkey transitioning into fall and winter. You'll even hear it from young hens sometimes during the spring turkey season.
The kee-kee is usually a three-note call, roughly two seconds long. The yelps added on the end, the "run" part, can be one to many more notes, added with "where are you?" urgency.
While kee-kee and kee-kee-run calls vary in the fall turkey woods, time there with the birds will teach you plenty. Listen.
You'll hear the kee-kee and kee-kee-run often when a young turkey is "lost" or looking for flockmates.
It can happen during fly-down time in the morning. It will occur after a flock has been separated, which is a traditional autumn tactic of course.
You flush the group, you set up at the scatter site, and you try to call gregarious birds back . . . using a kee-kee or kee-kee-run if that's the legal either-sex fall turkey you want. Call like the fall bird you're trying to kill.
Here's a great video demonstration of the kee-kee and kee-kee-run provided by WoodHaven's Jimbo Lindsey calling on WoodHaven Kee Kee Disc.
I can do a pretty good Kee-Kee on the Madd Venom mouth call. Don't do any fall turkey hunting, but have tried in the spring with indifferent success when nothing else was working, either.
If I know I'm going out specifically for turkey for a few days I might move some things and take a gobble call or a box call, but since I mostly kee kee or cluck and yelp (gobbler or hen), I can do those best and easiest with a mouth call. I don't even remember the brand, Quaker Boy or H.S. Strut, I think. I usually buy a cheap multi-pack for 'beginners' I find that kee kees sound good and high pitched from some of the simplest diagphrams, but for gobbler yelps I might go for one with more reeds or cuts to get the lower/raspy sound I'm looking for. Usually just this sort of assortment comes in those packs, I've had a couple when I find one that I like I try and buy a couple of packs and then use them until I get low, then find another one. You can usually buy calls pretty cheap in the after season/summer sales, save your money for the important things like tags.
You like a single or double reed on that diaphragm Levi? What kind of cut in the latex? Curious. I've used many over the years to make a kee-kee/kee-kee-run. Quaker Boy's "Kee Kee" diaphragm is a double reed with no cuts. Inexpensive and you can carry it in your mouth. With you on the "quick getaway" vest action (in theory). I applaud your ability to do that. I seem to take a museum of turkey calls and gear afield. Helps me shed 10 pounds each season. Anyone else on this mouth call business? Thanks. --S.H.
In the fall with so may potential things to hunt, I pare down my vest and generally only carry mouth calls. I may be deer hunting the next night and I don't want to have to switch things in and out. I think I can make a pretty good kee kee on them. I have used a homemade tube call before too. I've had birds respond, but never called one in like this, of course, I haven't busted them up before calling.
We start in 15 days 6hrs,16 minutes and 8 seconds but who's counting?
I'll call some ink pen barrel birds in honor of the SZ'ers
Bought 8 tags to start spanning over 3 units. As of this morning there are still 43,458 leftover tags for sale.
So many tags so little time;-D
later,
charlie
Hey Charlie. Thanks for checking in, as always. Looking forward to your empty ink pen barrel turkey post this fall. Season is coming up soon for you, right? Love those stories of the old timers using a blade of grass or leaf to render the same turkey vocalization. I've got a box call or two that also makes a sweet kee-kee/kee-kee-run. What about the rest of you guys? Mouth or friction call? Got an offbeat twist like Mr. Elk?--SH.
Do mine on a wingbone, trumpet or empty an ink pen barrel.
Woodhaven has a kee-kee disc, now there is another call to buy---- ah wait--- $100 Darn; the ink pen barrel brings em in just fine.
;-D))
later,
charlie
Do mine on a wingbone, trumpet or empty an ink pen barrel.
Woodhaven has a kee-kee disc, now there is another call to buy---- ah wait--- $100 Darn; the ink pen barrel brings em in just fine.
;-D))
later,
charlie
Hey Charlie. Thanks for checking in, as always. Looking forward to your empty ink pen barrel turkey post this fall. Season is coming up soon for you, right? Love those stories of the old timers using a blade of grass or leaf to render the same turkey vocalization. I've got a box call or two that also makes a sweet kee-kee/kee-kee-run. What about the rest of you guys? Mouth or friction call? Got an offbeat twist like Mr. Elk?--SH.
We start in 15 days 6hrs,16 minutes and 8 seconds but who's counting?
I'll call some ink pen barrel birds in honor of the SZ'ers
Bought 8 tags to start spanning over 3 units. As of this morning there are still 43,458 leftover tags for sale.
So many tags so little time;-D
later,
charlie
In the fall with so may potential things to hunt, I pare down my vest and generally only carry mouth calls. I may be deer hunting the next night and I don't want to have to switch things in and out. I think I can make a pretty good kee kee on them. I have used a homemade tube call before too. I've had birds respond, but never called one in like this, of course, I haven't busted them up before calling.
You like a single or double reed on that diaphragm Levi? What kind of cut in the latex? Curious. I've used many over the years to make a kee-kee/kee-kee-run. Quaker Boy's "Kee Kee" diaphragm is a double reed with no cuts. Inexpensive and you can carry it in your mouth. With you on the "quick getaway" vest action (in theory). I applaud your ability to do that. I seem to take a museum of turkey calls and gear afield. Helps me shed 10 pounds each season. Anyone else on this mouth call business? Thanks. --S.H.
If I know I'm going out specifically for turkey for a few days I might move some things and take a gobble call or a box call, but since I mostly kee kee or cluck and yelp (gobbler or hen), I can do those best and easiest with a mouth call. I don't even remember the brand, Quaker Boy or H.S. Strut, I think. I usually buy a cheap multi-pack for 'beginners' I find that kee kees sound good and high pitched from some of the simplest diagphrams, but for gobbler yelps I might go for one with more reeds or cuts to get the lower/raspy sound I'm looking for. Usually just this sort of assortment comes in those packs, I've had a couple when I find one that I like I try and buy a couple of packs and then use them until I get low, then find another one. You can usually buy calls pretty cheap in the after season/summer sales, save your money for the important things like tags.
I can do a pretty good Kee-Kee on the Madd Venom mouth call. Don't do any fall turkey hunting, but have tried in the spring with indifferent success when nothing else was working, either.
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Ohio bud got in touch today to say he watched a mixed flock of 20 with some gobbler strutting action. C'mon fall. I'm ready. --S.H.
hey steve i use a slate call fall season is coming up soon.
I can do a pretty good Kee-Kee on the Madd Venom mouth call. Don't do any fall turkey hunting, but have tried in the spring with indifferent success when nothing else was working, either.
If I know I'm going out specifically for turkey for a few days I might move some things and take a gobble call or a box call, but since I mostly kee kee or cluck and yelp (gobbler or hen), I can do those best and easiest with a mouth call. I don't even remember the brand, Quaker Boy or H.S. Strut, I think. I usually buy a cheap multi-pack for 'beginners' I find that kee kees sound good and high pitched from some of the simplest diagphrams, but for gobbler yelps I might go for one with more reeds or cuts to get the lower/raspy sound I'm looking for. Usually just this sort of assortment comes in those packs, I've had a couple when I find one that I like I try and buy a couple of packs and then use them until I get low, then find another one. You can usually buy calls pretty cheap in the after season/summer sales, save your money for the important things like tags.
You like a single or double reed on that diaphragm Levi? What kind of cut in the latex? Curious. I've used many over the years to make a kee-kee/kee-kee-run. Quaker Boy's "Kee Kee" diaphragm is a double reed with no cuts. Inexpensive and you can carry it in your mouth. With you on the "quick getaway" vest action (in theory). I applaud your ability to do that. I seem to take a museum of turkey calls and gear afield. Helps me shed 10 pounds each season. Anyone else on this mouth call business? Thanks. --S.H.
In the fall with so may potential things to hunt, I pare down my vest and generally only carry mouth calls. I may be deer hunting the next night and I don't want to have to switch things in and out. I think I can make a pretty good kee kee on them. I have used a homemade tube call before too. I've had birds respond, but never called one in like this, of course, I haven't busted them up before calling.
We start in 15 days 6hrs,16 minutes and 8 seconds but who's counting?
I'll call some ink pen barrel birds in honor of the SZ'ers
Bought 8 tags to start spanning over 3 units. As of this morning there are still 43,458 leftover tags for sale.
So many tags so little time;-D
later,
charlie
Hey Charlie. Thanks for checking in, as always. Looking forward to your empty ink pen barrel turkey post this fall. Season is coming up soon for you, right? Love those stories of the old timers using a blade of grass or leaf to render the same turkey vocalization. I've got a box call or two that also makes a sweet kee-kee/kee-kee-run. What about the rest of you guys? Mouth or friction call? Got an offbeat twist like Mr. Elk?--SH.
Do mine on a wingbone, trumpet or empty an ink pen barrel.
Woodhaven has a kee-kee disc, now there is another call to buy---- ah wait--- $100 Darn; the ink pen barrel brings em in just fine.
;-D))
later,
charlie
Do you guys prefer a mouth or friction call to make your kee-kee and kee-kee-run?
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Do you guys prefer a mouth or friction call to make your kee-kee and kee-kee-run?
Do mine on a wingbone, trumpet or empty an ink pen barrel.
Woodhaven has a kee-kee disc, now there is another call to buy---- ah wait--- $100 Darn; the ink pen barrel brings em in just fine.
;-D))
later,
charlie
Hey Charlie. Thanks for checking in, as always. Looking forward to your empty ink pen barrel turkey post this fall. Season is coming up soon for you, right? Love those stories of the old timers using a blade of grass or leaf to render the same turkey vocalization. I've got a box call or two that also makes a sweet kee-kee/kee-kee-run. What about the rest of you guys? Mouth or friction call? Got an offbeat twist like Mr. Elk?--SH.
We start in 15 days 6hrs,16 minutes and 8 seconds but who's counting?
I'll call some ink pen barrel birds in honor of the SZ'ers
Bought 8 tags to start spanning over 3 units. As of this morning there are still 43,458 leftover tags for sale.
So many tags so little time;-D
later,
charlie
In the fall with so may potential things to hunt, I pare down my vest and generally only carry mouth calls. I may be deer hunting the next night and I don't want to have to switch things in and out. I think I can make a pretty good kee kee on them. I have used a homemade tube call before too. I've had birds respond, but never called one in like this, of course, I haven't busted them up before calling.
You like a single or double reed on that diaphragm Levi? What kind of cut in the latex? Curious. I've used many over the years to make a kee-kee/kee-kee-run. Quaker Boy's "Kee Kee" diaphragm is a double reed with no cuts. Inexpensive and you can carry it in your mouth. With you on the "quick getaway" vest action (in theory). I applaud your ability to do that. I seem to take a museum of turkey calls and gear afield. Helps me shed 10 pounds each season. Anyone else on this mouth call business? Thanks. --S.H.
If I know I'm going out specifically for turkey for a few days I might move some things and take a gobble call or a box call, but since I mostly kee kee or cluck and yelp (gobbler or hen), I can do those best and easiest with a mouth call. I don't even remember the brand, Quaker Boy or H.S. Strut, I think. I usually buy a cheap multi-pack for 'beginners' I find that kee kees sound good and high pitched from some of the simplest diagphrams, but for gobbler yelps I might go for one with more reeds or cuts to get the lower/raspy sound I'm looking for. Usually just this sort of assortment comes in those packs, I've had a couple when I find one that I like I try and buy a couple of packs and then use them until I get low, then find another one. You can usually buy calls pretty cheap in the after season/summer sales, save your money for the important things like tags.
I can do a pretty good Kee-Kee on the Madd Venom mouth call. Don't do any fall turkey hunting, but have tried in the spring with indifferent success when nothing else was working, either.
Ohio bud got in touch today to say he watched a mixed flock of 20 with some gobbler strutting action. C'mon fall. I'm ready. --S.H.
hey steve i use a slate call fall season is coming up soon.
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