It really isn't a new call. My friend Eddie Salter, who works for HS Strut and is from LA, (Lower Alabama) came up with the call years ago. It imitates the sound a hen makes when a tom is treading her back during breeding. I've heard the sound several times over the years in the woods. It really isn't a distress call but one of many natural responses from a hen turkey. Eddie has been using it as a deal closer for some time and finally decided to market the call (actually gave them the call) through HS. He gave me one last year when they brought it out. I will admit that I did not use it last season as I forgot I had it. When I saw him recently one of the first things he asked was, "how did the squealing hen work?" I owned up to my transgression...

Eddie will tell you it doesn't work everytime and is best used in a situation where a tom is excited but won't commit. Or as he says, "Blow it when you fell you need it, it won't run anything off."

Eddie is a very clever call designer and one of the best turkey hunters ever to sit by a tree. He is an astute listener in the woods and one of the few who can come home and build something that sounds like what he heard. He still has several gimmick calls he keeps up his shirt sleeve. Actually he so many of them are up there he rattles slightly when you shake his hand.

I just recently bought and tried the call out....and I'm purely amazed. The gobblers were call shy this morning, not responding to a single yelp or hoot I had to throw at em', and I decided to just try it and see. All of a sudden the woods EXPLODED with gobbling, over seven different birds responded very enthusiastically. If I were to recommend a single call to add to a collection, this is it. A deal closer is an understatement. It drove those toms hog wild.

Beekeeper,hope all is well over your way!! I drew a unit 38 tag here in Idaho.Only 70 in the state.I have a primos double cutter.any other tips??

Bee, just this past Easter weekend I bagged a tom with an 11 in beard, 1 1/4 in spurs, and a nice 21.6 lbs. I used the squealer to grab his attention and though it took a little while he came right to me, crossing over 250 yards to get within gun range. Of course, I didn't use it exclusively, but it did the trick.

I went out this last weekend and spotted a tom coming down off a ridge about 3/4 of a mile away. I called and he gobbled and went into strut immediately. I then began to yelp at him and he slowly but surely came my way. He got to about 60 yards and hung up! He strutted there for about 20 minutes before he came down a second smaller ridge. He only came to 30 yards and I never had a shot with my bow. I think he was intimidated by my Killer B decoy. Anyways he went behind me up a small bluff and i took feathers off his back on a 45 yard uphill shot, but no cigar. (he went off unwounded)Do you think he might have committed if i had squeled at him?

I will never go out without one. Got to use it for the first time this spring. Had a jake (I know, let's not turn this into deer hunting now...) hang up, came running in to the squealer. Watched two birds fall to the call within a half hour. Awesome.