Mine is the David Halloran Metal Mouth II. It has fooled many birds!!!
Primos diamond cutter
Ceramic cherry pot with Clay Townsend persimmon snakewood striker
The Squealing Hen :funnyturkey:
Buckner adjustable trumpet. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230323/31af91843566d6e969a3f926f59b227c.jpg)
Anthony Ellis AGE trumpet, Blackwood and buffalo horn mouthpiece. It's been the demise of many gobblers.
Quote from: TrackeySauresRex on March 22, 2023, 09:59:39 PM
The Squealing Hen :funnyturkey:
Haha, worst turkey call idea EVER!!!
Lynch box
Mouth call, a friend makes mine so no specifics, though I like combo type cuts.
Tight race between a Will Primos 1 diaphragm and my trumpet.
Answer is always my CODY Slate Call!!
MK M GOBL
A small box call made by my wife's uncle when he was a call maker back in the day... Ken Addis Lil Red!
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The Snozz mini boat.
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Mark Prudhomme Lignum Vitae trumpet
Knight and Hale Lonesome Hen.
OG PP......or I'm just taking a walk...
A ghost cut mouth call. If I didn't have at least 2 mouth calls on me I wouldn't go to the woods.
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Primos Ol Betsy Grey Slate with JLH Frogwood or Birch laminate striker.
Paul Hicks Red Slate
MAD Smokin' Glass. Had it for many years and have yet to find one I like better, the gobblers like it too.
Quote from: joey46 on March 23, 2023, 03:48:17 AM
Knight and Hale Lonesome Hen.
Is there a trick to that thing? ive had people tell me throughout the years they work/sound good. I found one off eBay about a year ago cheap, nothing looks out of place about it and it was still in the original package but it sounds rough
Cody WC slate and black knight striker
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Quote from: joey46 on March 23, 2023, 03:48:17 AM
Knight and Hale Lonesome Hen.
Is there a trick to that thing? ive had people tell me throughout the years they work/sound good. I found one off eBay about a year ago cheap, nothing looks out of place about it and it was still in the original package but it sounds rough
I bought one new in package a month or so ago off eBay. At first it sounded terrible, I used the included emery cloth, scuffed up the copper surface on it and could get it to sound decent, I undone the top, ripped off the rubber? Piece that the spring was on and there's a small indentation under it, put the spring in that hole and put it back together, tightened the cap to were the spring is almost touching the black button on the paddle section of it and that sucker will sing!
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Five things I do not leave home without:
1. A Scratch box (SS Customs is most often the choice).
2. One gray slate pot and two strikers (Will use various gray slate pots throughout the season - Brad Roberts, Lonnie Mabry, Townsend for the most part) I have a Nathan Taylor Purple slate that will work its way into the mix this time around.
3. A wingbone or a trumpet (Make my own wingbones and tend to use them most times). I'm killing turkeys with them, but still am a big work in progress with getting rasp in my yelps.
4. A diaphragm (Usually a Woodhaven Toxic Orange or a Cane Creek Lost Poult these days).
5. I do not leave home without a crow call.
That gives me five hens in my arsenal for the day (Changing strikers on my pot gives me the fifth hen). I have a good number of box calls and will carry a box some, but they tend to be less fun to drag through the woods all day than the smaller lighter stuff listed above (hunting rough up and down terrain). But sound wise, a box is hard to beat.
I just bought a Mike Yingling copper that may push me to have a must have sixth item in my mix when I head to the woods. The yelp on Mike's copper is real nasally and raspy in a different way than most other pots.
Halloran twisted sister
I always have a Quaker Boy Old Boss Hen, a Woodhaven Red Wasp, and a Lonnie Mabry Aluminum Pot. Others in and out, but always those.
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Quote from: joey46 on March 23, 2023, 03:48:17 AM
Knight and Hale Lonesome Hen.
Is there a trick to that thing? ive had people tell me throughout the years they work/sound good. I found one off eBay about a year ago cheap, nothing looks out of place about it and it was still in the original package but it sounds rough
I bought one new in package a month or so ago off eBay. At first it sounded terrible, I used the included emery cloth, scuffed up the copper surface on it and could get it to sound decent, I undone the top, ripped off the rubber? Piece that the spring was on and there's a small indentation under it, put the spring in that hole and put it back together, tightened the cap to were the spring is almost touching the black button on the paddle section of it and that sucker will sing!
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Im going to take that sucker apart when I get home
Quote from: btodd00 on March 23, 2023, 09:16:41 AM
Quote from: ScottTaulbee on March 23, 2023, 09:02:24 AM
Quote from: btodd00 on March 23, 2023, 08:12:29 AM
Quote from: joey46 on March 23, 2023, 03:48:17 AM
Knight and Hale Lonesome Hen.
Is there a trick to that thing? ive had people tell me throughout the years they work/sound good. I found one off eBay about a year ago cheap, nothing looks out of place about it and it was still in the original package but it sounds rough
I bought one new in package a month or so ago off eBay. At first it sounded terrible, I used the included emery cloth, scuffed up the copper surface on it and could get it to sound decent, I undone the top, ripped off the rubber? Piece that the spring was on and there's a small indentation under it, put the spring in that hole and put it back together, tightened the cap to were the spring is almost touching the black button on the paddle section of it and that sucker will sing!
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Im going to take that sucker apart when I get home
I hope it helps you. I was on YouTube watching the old ultimate hunting they had that I watched as a kid and heard David running one and knew I had to give one a try. Found that one on eBay and when I got it in I was disappointed to say the least, after doing that tinkering I'm so impressed with it that for the first time in 23 seasons of turkey hunting, I'm seriously looking at taking a pushpin along. I've not ever found a pushpin that sounds like that one does now.
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Halloran "Crystal Mistress", JLH snakewood striker
2010 Holloran crystal mistress
I have 2
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This one until I get 10 to 12 birds with it. I retire them usually at 10 birds. This one is at 6.
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ole raspy hen mouth call
A slate call. Its trusted and reliable!
Quote from: Old Timer on March 22, 2023, 10:45:33 PM
Lynch box
You like the Champion or the Fool Proof?
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Primos "True Double" and "True Triple" mouth calls.
Billy Bush Beggin Machine (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230323/dcfa286a06d3e90defae9ef7e306e44d.jpg)
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Hook's Executioner 2
Quote from: Hook hanger on March 23, 2023, 12:49:13 PM
A slate call. Its trusted and reliable!
Well said - you are a wise man.
I always carry this little slate Randy Clark made for me when my twin sons were young. It's a great little purr pot and reminds me of my boys.
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My Helms custom box call. At least 2 of them. I have several to choose from.
Quote from: Zobo on March 23, 2023, 04:36:05 PM
I always carry this little slate Randy Clark made for me when my twin sons were young. It's a great little purr pot and reminds me of my boys.
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That's awesome. I would tote that with me as well. Thanks for sharing.
Quote from: Zobo on March 23, 2023, 04:36:05 PM
I always carry this little slate Randy Clark made for me when my twin sons were young. It's a great little purr pot and reminds me of my boys.
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Any advice on videos or anything to try to learn how to make this? Looks like a good diy
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Priceless Zobo, thanks for sharing.
Hooks heartthrob diaphragm a close second is a skate called made by John Tanner of South Carolina.
A 2 piece wingbone.
Halloran Twisted Sister for me
Sadler McGraw mouth calls ghost cut, batwing and a reverse cut combo. Bullock push pin, SS scratcher, Cody World Class slate, Cody Spec 1glass, Seminole Custom Calls Red Slate
Marrer Coffee wood striker
Fowler Snake wood
Longnecker Bocote and Persimmon
Cody black night striker
Preston Pittman purple heart box
There's my must haves!!!! Sorry I ain't going to be able to pick just one.
Have a good one and May God bless y'all, Bo
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Woodhaven Green Hornet. I bought 12 to be sure I have one. Z
T3 tube caller ... it's very similar to the old Morgan caller .
From the cluck to the gobble and everything in between.
Twisted sister
Knight and Hale Moonshiner.
I have 2 mouth calls I made with Gooserbat. Love them1
Cody world class slate
Houndstooth Tom Bomb Black
Lohman Thunderdome! Many of notches on that slate.
I've gotten good with a slate call.I use it a lot.I also have a box call I use.
Tom Gaskins Cedar Scratch Box. Field proven by an Army of Turkey Hunters.
Those Yelps sound Great and different. Watch that old video with Gaskins hitting that box with the Striker.
Mouth call... Everyone has their own style that works for their pallet. Personally I use my OsS ghost cut.
My SofTalker
Usually a Lonzo call of some sort is always tagging along.
I don't believe in "ol' faithful" and go out of my way to avoid it, after a kill that call gets put up with the date of kill marked on it. It allows for confidence in my calling, rather than confidence in "the call". Also allows me good reason to buy more turkey calls, and continue to use them all for their intended purpose.
Always have a fiddlebox, and after last years success I would say a trumpet too
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I always have a Billy White Husslin hen in the walnut/Purple Heart combo as well as a Cody Woodsman slate call with me .
Sneed Hot Hen slate
Little Heartbreaker!
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I swap pot calls out thru the season. So I guess the only call I don't go into the woods without is a Hooks Exectutioner II mouth call.
Quote from: Mick2394 on March 23, 2023, 09:10:06 AM
Halloran twisted sister
X2
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Cody slate with a Halloran ebony striker..
Always carry my Prestige Call by Paul's Call going on 25 years.