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Turkey Calls => Box Calls => Topic started by: BDeal on February 28, 2022, 10:03:51 AM

Title: If you could have one box call?
Post by: BDeal on February 28, 2022, 10:03:51 AM
If you could only have one box call, which model would it be? I don't care what it looks like, I just want it to be effective.

Thank You!
Title: Re: If you could have one box call?
Post by: Moh20 on February 28, 2022, 10:09:59 AM
Long box snakewood over butternut
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Post by: traderdave on February 28, 2022, 10:24:39 AM
An early mahogany Quaker Boy boatpaddle
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Post by: Cruiser on February 28, 2022, 10:32:45 AM
Doug Camp
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Post by: Greg Massey on February 28, 2022, 10:39:38 AM
Short box ... walnut poplar
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Post by: packmule on February 28, 2022, 11:26:53 AM
All cedar longbox.
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Post by: paboxcall on February 28, 2022, 11:28:49 AM
osage over butternut longbox
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Post by: Spring Creek Calls on February 28, 2022, 11:42:41 AM
Bloodwood over limba short box for the last several seasons. Gonna try a newcomer this year, Osage over Catalpa.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220228/be8d6a9cf1ff9388a6f75d3d6c61ae41.jpg)

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Title: Re: If you could have one box call?
Post by: ol bob on February 28, 2022, 11:46:27 AM
Any thing Don Sitton makes.
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Post by: PalmettoRon on February 28, 2022, 12:36:40 PM
Quote from: packmule on February 28, 2022, 11:26:53 AM
All cedar longbox.

I am not necessarily a fan of that sound but gobblers eat that up, often when nothing else works. My current personal choice is a cherry/ butternut longbox from TJ. If I were a gobbler, I would like that better. That call has it all in spades.
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Post by: Notsoyoungturk on February 28, 2022, 03:09:20 PM
Anything by Steve Mann.  Either yellow poplar or butternut with a black walnut lid.  Great looking and all turkey!
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Post by: Tom007 on February 28, 2022, 03:30:29 PM
Watkins Yellow Poplar/ Granadillo.
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Post by: Sim1982 on February 28, 2022, 07:35:41 PM
Marlin Watkins hophorm beam over mineral popler or Middle Mountain turkey calls tulipwood over mahagony
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Post by: Yoder409 on February 28, 2022, 07:41:01 PM
Quote from: BDeal on February 28, 2022, 10:03:51 AM
If you could only have one box call......

BLASPHEMY, I SAY !!!!!!!!!!!!

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Title: Re: If you could have one box call?
Post by: Zobo on February 28, 2022, 08:28:48 PM
I'm starting the season with a purpleheart over mineral poplar SS shortbox. Doesn't sound super special to my ears but the birds really hit it hard last season so who cares what I think?
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Post by: Jimspur on February 28, 2022, 09:26:51 PM
My Lamar Williams boatpaddle, red cedar over yellow poplar. Had it since
1994. She's a raspy devil!
Title: Re: If you could have one box call?
Post by: BDeal on March 01, 2022, 10:21:24 AM
Any others? Specific callmakers?

Thanks
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Post by: callmakerman on March 01, 2022, 12:56:12 PM
Quote from: packmule on February 28, 2022, 11:26:53 AM
All cedar longbox.
Not an easy combo to get from most call makers but it's a good one.  My call would be a Turpin box in about any wood combo. My Buice all chestnut or the osage and apple will do just fine.
Title: Re: If you could have one box call?
Post by: tbuchanan91 on March 01, 2022, 12:57:47 PM
Quote from: ol bob on February 28, 2022, 11:46:27 AM
Any thing Don Sitton makes.
I second this. I have one and its a great sounding box call. Good luck finding one
Title: Re: If you could have one box call?
Post by: packmule on March 01, 2022, 01:00:30 PM
Quote from: callmakerman on March 01, 2022, 12:56:12 PM
Quote from: packmule on February 28, 2022, 11:26:53 AM
All cedar longbox.
Not an easy combo to get from most call makers but it's a good one.

Agreed.
Title: Re: If you could have one box call?
Post by: Mathews.1 on March 01, 2022, 03:46:37 PM
I have a Watkins serviceberry/elm that is fantastic old hen.
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Post by: Tom007 on March 01, 2022, 07:31:25 PM
Windy, blustery day, Primos Battleship............
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Post by: Yoder409 on March 01, 2022, 09:41:40 PM
Quote from: Tom007 on March 01, 2022, 07:31:25 PM
Windy, blustery day, Primos Battleship............

The Battleship will reach out there.   Yep.
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Post by: Happy hooker on March 02, 2022, 08:54:18 PM
 Darin Dawkins walnut over mahogany,,,, short box
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Post by: ferocious calls on March 03, 2022, 06:51:52 AM
A Ferocious call.
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Post by: Gog1015 on March 03, 2022, 07:04:14 AM
Walnut and Butternut Albert Paul
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Post by: Prohunter3509 on March 03, 2022, 07:20:33 AM
Liberty ms made lynch fool proof
Sweetheart of a call and to me one of the sweetest calls
I owned and the easter tornado here in ms in 2020 relieved
Me of my treasure. Bought that call in 1980 so I had her 30 years.
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Post by: Gold Spur on March 07, 2022, 11:09:01 AM
X2 on the Liberty MS Lynch Foolproof 101. They're awesome calls.
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Post by: Swamp on March 24, 2022, 12:27:03 AM
James Witmer blood over mineral stained poplar. Or anything Lee Smith makes.

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Title: Re: If you could have one box call?
Post by: strutnrut on March 24, 2022, 01:53:27 AM
Turpin style hen box.
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Post by: Ranger on March 24, 2022, 02:36:32 PM
Steve Mann Mahogany paddle, Poplar Body, Walnut Base, Old Hen Design
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Post by: Yoder409 on March 25, 2022, 06:49:39 AM
So.............. If I'm limited to ONE box call.......... you may as well shoot me.    :z-guntootsmiley:

But, going by what I carried last year and will be toting around this year, as well........and likely for years to come........

Watkins bridge design fiddle box.  Macassar over persimmon.
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Post by: kingofspringmi on March 26, 2022, 10:13:18 PM
H.S. Strut Field Champion Box Call. It's what I used when I started tagging along on turkey hunts with my grandfather, and I've been lucky enough to carry the same exact call with me since then.

Unfortunately, the call was in rough shape and I didn't want to do anymore damage to it. After a quick Google search, I learned that they no longer made the call and I pulled the trigger on a newer model of the call on eBay. As long as it works I'll forever carry it with me into the woods.
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Post by: Nate on March 27, 2022, 12:05:42 AM
Old Ike Ashby calls are worth a look at. I have a Ashby box with a top built and tuned by Swiney Rayfield that's as good as the best.
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Post by: WildTigerTrout on March 27, 2022, 12:12:43 AM
My vintage mid 1970's Lynch World Champion made in Liberty Miss.
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Post by: rong on March 29, 2022, 10:31:24 AM
Only one? ??? ??? ??? No thanks..... I don't want to play :-[
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Post by: Rapscallion Vermilion on March 29, 2022, 12:45:44 PM
Hen box  (Richard Hudson, Matt Fulkerson, ...)
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Post by: 2nd 100 on April 01, 2022, 12:13:50 AM
Count me out also on one box .... Naw I don't wanna play.. lol
I have  been toting a Lamar Williams mosdrilled shop box for the last 3 years . It gets it's fair share of use but I always have 4 or 3 in the truck and maybe a Fulkerson  hen box riding in the back pocket of the vest where real turkey hunters don't carry turkeys ...
So I really won't be limited to one ... Sorry
Title: Re: If you could have one box call?
Post by: Yoder409 on April 01, 2022, 05:55:39 AM
Quote from: 2nd 100 on April 01, 2022, 12:13:50 AM
.......... a Lamar Williams mosdrilled shop box

???

Curious as to what this is and what it looks like.
Title: Re: If you could have one box call?
Post by: lowoctane on April 01, 2022, 08:10:15 AM
Quote from: Yoder409 on April 01, 2022, 05:55:39 AM
Quote from: 2nd 100 on April 01, 2022, 12:13:50 AM
.......... a Lamar Williams mosdrilled shop box

???

Curious as to what this is and what it looks like.
Lynch 101...


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Title: Re: If you could have one box call?
Post by: Sim1982 on April 01, 2022, 09:04:01 AM
Watkins Mac ebony over red heart that box flat out runs
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Post by: Bowguy on April 02, 2022, 08:07:19 AM
If only one box was a consideration why would anyone not want a longbox? It does everything a short box does and more. Way more versatile. A short box would limit you. SS or McKamey is what I use and carry. If only a short box it could be many variations of a Watkins.
Title: Re: If you could have one box call?
Post by: Zobo on April 02, 2022, 07:43:24 PM
Starting this season with the Basehore yellowheart/mahogany and the Shoemaker pupleheart/ mineral poplar, oh wait that's two boxes. But in my world a longbox and a short aren't the same thing. Same genus, different species. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220402/426a38f764cf77e054fef50dc06d8793.jpg)

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Title: Re: If you could have one box call?
Post by: TJR on April 02, 2022, 11:13:06 PM
Billy Bush Beggin Machine


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Title: If you could have one box call?
Post by: longbow2240 on April 07, 2022, 11:33:44 PM
Nothing special, but I wish I would've grabbed one of the Cody Mossy Oak Old School series when I had a chance. Was gonna get one and life stepped in the way and had put that idea on hold, when I ready to buy, no more where available.


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Title: Re: If you could have one box call?
Post by: 2nd 100 on May 08, 2022, 02:04:17 AM
The Lamar misdrilled box is one he keeps in his shop that he wont sell without someone actually  playing it themselves , before he will sell it to them . He refers to them as shop boxes . Mine just happened to be misdrilled  . So sometimes  a box won't run on one end ( side )  as well as on the other , so when they drill the hole on the opposite end it comes alive so they plug the hole and have a misdrilled  box . This also happens on a call built  by a righthanded callmaker but played by a left handed person .
Title: Re: If you could have one box call?
Post by: turkey_picker on May 30, 2022, 04:43:04 PM
Albert Paul black walnut over zebrawood
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Post by: wchadw on May 30, 2022, 05:17:06 PM
Of the ones I got, probably Watkins cedar over wormy butternut long box


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Post by: pinebark on June 11, 2022, 06:20:05 PM
Billy buice elm box.

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Post by: Spitten and drummen on July 07, 2022, 11:17:04 PM
Derek Tereza Ironwood over Japanese Persimmon. Richard Hudson Snakewood over English Walnut. 2 completely different sounds. I would take either with 100 percent confidence.
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Post by: EZ on July 08, 2022, 08:45:32 AM
Anything by Mike Lapp. The guy just does not make a call below excellent, no matter the style or the wood.
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Post by: Sir-diealot on July 09, 2022, 05:31:42 AM
I still have a lot to learn so just going on what I own and have played at Turkey Trot Acres at the NorthEast Call Makers Summit the last 2 times it has gone on I would say my Marlin Watkins calls I have based on both sound and ease of uses. I personally have yet to play one that plays as easily as his and is as comfortable in my messed up hands.
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