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Title: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Tomtom97 on March 14, 2023, 03:39:50 PM
Headed down to Florida this weekend. This is what I have to start it off with the exception of some mouth calls(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230314/ca8403bb442dcade8db9631061e2c03b.jpg)
Lamar Williams Box
Townsend osage glass
Townsend Walnut slate
Roberts glass model 100
Townsend Snakewood trumpet

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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: roosterstraw on March 14, 2023, 07:37:47 PM
Your vest is loaded for sure!
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: TrackeySauresRex on March 14, 2023, 07:44:47 PM
Ohhhh Boy! Too much to post. Ima not gonna resize my photo for this thread  :gobble: Looks like yer ready!  :icon_thumright:
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Greg Massey on March 14, 2023, 07:46:10 PM
Fine bunch of calls... gobbler killers ... Good luck....Safe travels
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Bedge7767 on March 14, 2023, 07:55:42 PM
Toilet paper is something I always have.
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Tomtom97 on March 14, 2023, 07:58:18 PM
Quote from: Bedge7767 on March 14, 2023, 07:55:42 PM
Toilet paper is something I always have.
Dude wipes are a necessity!


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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Ranman on March 14, 2023, 08:21:48 PM
Nice lineup for sure.. better pack along the thermacell..
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: MossyOak92 on March 14, 2023, 09:32:32 PM
This is what will be in my vest opening day.
Richard Hudson hen box
EZ cane call
Bob Buckner adjustable
OG push pin
Chad Scruggs crow call
Bill Lyman tube(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230315/58d3a268d96c7563e9b4ec81fa1ae277.jpg)

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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Bedge7767 on March 14, 2023, 09:39:52 PM
Quote from: MossyOak92 on March 14, 2023, 09:32:32 PM
This is what will be in my vest opening day.
Richard Hudson hen box
EZ cane call
Bob Buckner adjustable
OG push pin
Chad Scruggs crow call
Bill Lyman tube(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230315/58d3a268d96c7563e9b4ec81fa1ae277.jpg)

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Showoff
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: MossyOak92 on March 14, 2023, 09:40:25 PM
Quote from: Bedge7767 on March 14, 2023, 09:39:52 PM
Quote from: MossyOak92 on March 14, 2023, 09:32:32 PM
This is what will be in my vest opening day.
Richard Hudson hen box
EZ cane call
Bob Buckner adjustable
OG push pin
Chad Scruggs crow call
Bill Lyman tube(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230315/58d3a268d96c7563e9b4ec81fa1ae277.jpg)

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Showoff
I have good taste.

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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Vintage on March 14, 2023, 09:44:23 PM
If you get robbed it will be grand theft.
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Tomtom97 on March 14, 2023, 10:00:54 PM
Quote from: MossyOak92 on March 14, 2023, 09:32:32 PM
This is what will be in my vest opening day.
Richard Hudson hen box
EZ cane call
Bob Buckner adjustable
OG push pin
Chad Scruggs crow call
Bill Lyman tube(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230315/58d3a268d96c7563e9b4ec81fa1ae277.jpg)

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Great looking lineup!!


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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Tom007 on March 15, 2023, 07:55:44 AM
Your vest looks a little "top heavy". I can help you out by buying that OG pushpin-pin off ya to lighten it up? LOL, nice selection there!!!
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: MossyOak92 on March 15, 2023, 08:01:45 AM
Quote from: Tom007 on March 15, 2023, 07:55:44 AM
Your vest looks a little "top heavy". I can help you out by buying that OG pushpin-pin off ya to lighten it up? LOL, nice selection there!!!
I got to have that thing. It's the only call I can purr on. Really want another so I can sound like fighting purrs.

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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: bowbird87 on March 15, 2023, 11:33:53 AM
If I was going tomorrow it would be:

TJ Johnson walnut/cedar
Buster persimmon red slate
Val Espinoza padauk crystal
Lonzo acrylic black aluminum
Buster walnut ceramic

Tommy Carter trough
Ezolt yelper
Harrison owl and screamer
Pappy crow
5-7 JLH and Val strikers.
6-8 mouth calls
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: OsceolaDreams on March 15, 2023, 02:54:06 PM
Mines full of Buster Pot Calls and JLH Strickers!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Tom007 on March 15, 2023, 03:12:38 PM
Quote from: MossyOak92 on March 15, 2023, 08:01:45 AM
Quote from: Tom007 on March 15, 2023, 07:55:44 AM
Your vest looks a little "top heavy". I can help you out by buying that OG pushpin-pin off ya to lighten it up? LOL, nice selection there!!!
I got to have that thing. It's the only call I can purr on. Really want another so I can sound like fighting purrs.

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Amen my friend, nice set-up....
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: YelpOnTheWay on March 15, 2023, 09:06:12 PM
This is what I have,

(https://i.imgur.com/DNV3qZQ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/pXCCE7y.jpg)

- Appalachian custom calls Black Death (9/15)
- Appalachian custom calls acrylic/wood slate call
- Cody slate (unknown)
- David Halloran Crystal mistress

- Quaker Boy NWTF Box

- Wing Bone from my first gobbler

- Tru Tone batwing diaphragm (not pictured)

If anyone has any insight as to what model this cody slate call or the NWTF Quaker Boy box is, I would love to find out more about them. I got the box over 15 years ago at a youth NWTF event. I can't find anything online about either of the two.
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: quackaddict on March 15, 2023, 10:13:01 PM
Quote from: YelpOnTheWay on March 15, 2023, 09:06:12 PM
This is what I have,

(https://i.imgur.com/DNV3qZQ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/pXCCE7y.jpg)

- Appalachian custom calls Black Death (9/15)
- Appalachian custom calls acrylic/wood slate call
- Cody slate (unknown)
- David Halloran Crystal mistress

- Quaker Boy NWTF Box

- Wing Bone from my first gobbler

- Tru Tone batwing diaphragm (not pictured)

If anyone has any insight as to what model this cody slate call or the NWTF Quaker Boy box is, I would love to find out more about them. I got the box over 15 years ago at a youth NWTF event. I can't find anything online about either of the two.
I've got one of those same Quaker Boy boxes from an event I went to back about 25 years ago. Has a Dick Kirby autograph on it. Stupid me didn't take care of it like I should have to preserve the ink, but it still sounds mighty fine. Basically turned it over to my 5yo now as "his call".


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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: YelpOnTheWay on March 15, 2023, 10:17:41 PM
Quote from: quackaddict on March 15, 2023, 10:13:01 PM
Quote from: YelpOnTheWay on March 15, 2023, 09:06:12 PM
This is what I have,

(https://i.imgur.com/DNV3qZQ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/pXCCE7y.jpg)

- Appalachian custom calls Black Death (9/15)
- Appalachian custom calls acrylic/wood slate call
- Cody slate (unknown)
- David Halloran Crystal mistress

- Quaker Boy NWTF Box

- Wing Bone from my first gobbler

- Tru Tone batwing diaphragm (not pictured)

If anyone has any insight as to what model this cody slate call or the NWTF Quaker Boy box is, I would love to find out more about them. I got the box over 15 years ago at a youth NWTF event. I can't find anything online about either of the two.
I've got one of those same Quaker Boy boxes from an event I went to back about 25 years ago. Has a Dick Kirby autograph on it. Stupid me didn't take care of it like I should have to preserve the ink, but it still sounds mighty fine. Basically turned it over to my 5yo now as "his call".


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I don't remember there ever being a Dick Kirby autograph on mine. I'll see if I can find an older picture.
Title: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: longbow2240 on March 15, 2023, 11:45:57 PM
Not in a vest but will be in Ms Glenda's Turkey bag
Calls:
-Halloran Green Slate with his Ipe striker
(Might swap it out with David's new green aluminum and hickory striker)
-Prudhomme tube
-My sons Cedar tube he made me
-Couple of Coves gray Ghost cut mouth calls.

Non calls:
-pruners
-Moonshine leather strap




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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: quackaddict on March 16, 2023, 05:54:03 AM
Quote from: YelpOnTheWay on March 15, 2023, 10:17:41 PM
Quote from: quackaddict on March 15, 2023, 10:13:01 PM
Quote from: YelpOnTheWay on March 15, 2023, 09:06:12 PM
This is what I have,

(https://i.imgur.com/DNV3qZQ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/pXCCE7y.jpg)

- Appalachian custom calls Black Death (9/15)
- Appalachian custom calls acrylic/wood slate call
- Cody slate (unknown)
- David Halloran Crystal mistress

- Quaker Boy NWTF Box

- Wing Bone from my first gobbler

- Tru Tone batwing diaphragm (not pictured)

If anyone has any insight as to what model this cody slate call or the NWTF Quaker Boy box is, I would love to find out more about them. I got the box over 15 years ago at a youth NWTF event. I can't find anything online about either of the two.
I've got one of those same Quaker Boy boxes from an event I went to back about 25 years ago. Has a Dick Kirby autograph on it. Stupid me didn't take care of it like I should have to preserve the ink, but it still sounds mighty fine. Basically turned it over to my 5yo now as "his call".


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I don't remember there ever being a Dick Kirby autograph on mine. I'll see if I can find an older picture.
I had him autograph mine when I was at the event. They used to have a big Jakes event in Edgefield that was a 3 or 4 day deal. If I remember right, kids had to be nominated by chapter heads and names got drawn to be an attendant. It was a really cool "camp".


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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: TJ3152 on March 16, 2023, 06:48:59 AM
Watkins Yellowheart over Blackgum Longbox
Watkins Bloodwood over Butterbut Fiddle Box
SS Bloodwood over Mahogany Short Box
SS Black Limba Scratch Box
Buster Persimmon Red Slate with JLH Strikers
Houndstooth Deep Beak 3 Reed Mouth Call
Owl Hooter
Crow Call
Pittman Flap n Scratch
Thermocell

Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: ScottTaulbee on March 16, 2023, 07:00:42 AM
Roger Parks Double spur gobbler call or a glass in a paduak pot I make. I'll interchange them. If it rains I'll have a enticer next generation and leave the other two at home. Two strikers that came with Roger's call and a striker I've had since the late 90's of unknown wood or who made it. 3 or 4 mouth calls, all ghost cut, all the same call. My Corian trumpet from Kenneth Mullins or if the timing works out, my Ralph Permar Delrin .45 I'm on the list for.
Non turkey call items are a leather turkey strap, wet wipes, conditioning items for the pot call of choice that day, a bottle of water and a extra set of gloves and face mask.


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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Tom007 on March 16, 2023, 08:18:15 AM
Quote from: YelpOnTheWay on March 15, 2023, 09:06:12 PM
This is what I have,

(https://i.imgur.com/DNV3qZQ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/pXCCE7y.jpg)

- Appalachian custom calls Black Death (9/15)
- Appalachian custom calls acrylic/wood slate call
- Cody slate (unknown)
- David Halloran Crystal mistress

- Quaker Boy NWTF Box

- Wing Bone from my first gobbler

- Tru Tone batwing diaphragm (not pictured)

If anyone has any insight as to what model this cody slate call or the NWTF Quaker Boy box is, I would love to find out more about them. I got the box over 15 years ago at a youth NWTF event. I can't find anything online about either of the two.

You Cody Slate looks like an early model Cody 2. Nice collection there....
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: chbarnha on March 16, 2023, 11:08:50 AM
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230316/fa4d2e372e2bb7305d97948d1b48ef06.jpg)
If I had the pleasure of sitting up against a tree tomorrow I would have
Marlin Watkins yellowheart/black limba fiddle paddle
Ezolt wingbone
Osmer desert ironwood/mammoth ivory tube
Madhatter wormy chestnut pocket player
Jimmy schaeffer ceramic walnut
Clay Townsend Osage glass over slate
Val Espinoza crystal in tulipwood
Either a buster persimmon green slate or buster purple slate
Daryal gosey crow call

All pots would be supplemented with a heavy roll up of jlh and Townsend strikers.


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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: HILBY72 on March 16, 2023, 12:01:37 PM
MAC Calls Ceramic, Aluminum, and Glass Pots and then a handful of Bat wing and Combo cut mouth calls that I make
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: runngun on March 16, 2023, 08:17:25 PM
Cody World Class slate
Cody Spec 1 Glass
Pat Strawser slate
Seminolle Game Calls Red Slate
Possum Fork Tube
Tim Bullock push pin "No Bull"
Preston Pittman Box call
Preston Pittman "Flap n Scratch"
Sadler McGraw ghost cut, batwing, and reverse cut combo
H. Fowler Snakewood, Mike Longnecker Persimmon, Coffee wood

Have a good one and May God bless, Bo

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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: fishr64 on March 16, 2023, 08:38:45 PM
Quote from: YelpOnTheWay on March 15, 2023, 09:06:12 PM
This is what I have,

(https://i.imgur.com/DNV3qZQ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/pXCCE7y.jpg)

- Appalachian custom calls Black Death (9/15)
- Appalachian custom calls acrylic/wood slate call
- Cody slate (unknown)
- David Halloran Crystal mistress

- Quaker Boy NWTF Box

- Wing Bone from my first gobbler

- Tru Tone batwing diaphragm (not pictured)

If anyone has any insight as to what model this cody slate call or the NWTF Quaker Boy box is, I would love to find out more about them. I got the box over 15 years ago at a youth NWTF event. I can't find anything online about either of the two.

I'm pretty sure that's an early Cody Envy slate. Not sure how many years they were made before they added the Envy in red on the back of the call. The glass had the name on the glass with the same artwork on the back.
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Spring Creek Calls on March 17, 2023, 12:43:47 PM
I don't use a vest but this is what I'll start out with. Ipe/sycamore box in my cargo pocket, Twisted Sister in my coat breast pocket, Lewis Inzer trumpet around my neck and a Sadler McGraw ghost cut in my mouth. The lineup is subject to change daily.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230317/7835714724e35f48f924b35d69f8596f.jpg)

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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Ranger on March 17, 2023, 04:24:11 PM
Should be enough to do some turkey talking, Southeastern Callmakers
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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: cannonball on March 17, 2023, 06:21:24 PM
James Harrison hootin stick and crow call. Doug Camp box call. Crystal Mistress, Lights Out aluminum and Stumpy ceramic pot calls. OG push pin. Billy Buice, Brian Mero and Pappy trumpets.
(https://i.imgur.com/toYhbdkl.jpg)
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: afhunter1 on March 17, 2023, 07:01:28 PM
Cody Spec 1 Legend Slate
Townsend Osage Glass
SS Kwilla / B-nut
Delrin 45

If it's windy I'll toss in a Roberts Mahoe raw aluminum

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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: bowT3ch5 on March 18, 2023, 06:04:16 AM
Wow....some great calls!
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Tomtom97 on March 18, 2023, 06:06:45 AM
Quote from: bowT3ch5 on March 18, 2023, 06:04:16 AM
Wow....some great calls!
Could not agree more!


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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Tomtom97 on March 18, 2023, 11:28:07 AM
Quote from: Tomtom97 on March 14, 2023, 03:39:50 PM
Headed down to Florida this weekend. This is what I have to start it off with the exception of some mouth calls(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230314/ca8403bb442dcade8db9631061e2c03b.jpg)
Lamar Williams Box
Townsend osage glass
Townsend Walnut slate
Roberts glass model 100
Townsend Snakewood trumpet

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(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230318/c60bd752fddf28e6d383293fed8395a9.jpg)
Trumpet success this morning


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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: harleytom on March 18, 2023, 11:49:06 AM
Congrats! Need a story.


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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Tomtom97 on March 20, 2023, 11:42:03 AM
Quote from: harleytom on March 18, 2023, 11:49:06 AM
Congrats! Need a story.


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Started off by getting carried by mosquitoes from the truck to where I was going to hunt! Got the thermacell on and they dropped me off. Heard a bird on the roost a ways off across a clear cut and open woods. I could only set up about 300/400 yards away comfortably with not knowing the land that well.He hit the ground and went quite. I tried my pot and diaphragm and never heard anything. Used my trumpet for the first time ever in the woods after about an hour of being there and about 15 minutes later he can into where I was setup on the edge of the field about 15 yards away full strut and got a face full TSS!


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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: moyehow on March 20, 2023, 05:38:08 PM
Trumpet!
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Zobo on March 27, 2023, 09:53:18 PM
I'm just starting to get it together now: Basehore mahogany longbox, Irving Whitt's killer old hen short box wenge/ash, Brumfiel's little osage glass and Clark's slate soft talker w/ Obsession and Fowler strikers, SS canary scratchbox, and a Slaton bocote and Permar fiddleback 1917   trumpets.

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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: chbarnha on March 29, 2023, 08:37:39 AM
The starting lineup for next Saturday has been decided.. the roll up has a pile of JLH strikers with one Townsend and one Fowler mixed in. Undecided on whether I'm gonna go with the Glenda minimalist satchel and tube seat or my vest. But these are the calls that will be in either one of them.
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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Jmloch on March 29, 2023, 10:04:05 AM
I've got an old Drury box call, a glass pot, slate pot and some contraption I made. Sounds good. It's made from maple and titanium. Might add one with copper surface for "gobbler" yelps,etc. an assortment of different strikers.  And a leather turkey tote I made.


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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: btomlin on March 29, 2023, 10:05:36 AM
Spring Creek bloodwood over cedar
SS Kwila over Bnut
Gooserbat Crystal
HS lil deuce slate over glass and double glass
DES trumpet
Wingbone that i made this year
Dymondwood striker from Neal.
Gooserbat mouth yelpers.
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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: CG1997 on May 14, 2023, 02:19:23 PM
TP
Mac glass over slate
John Sinclair ceramic
Sadler McGraw ghost and combo
Gooserbat ICE
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: afhunter1 on May 14, 2023, 04:37:56 PM
Quote from: btomlin on March 29, 2023, 10:05:36 AM
Spring Creek bloodwood over cedar
SS Kwila over Bnut
Gooserbat Crystal
HS lil deuce slate over glass and double glass
DES trumpet
Wingbone that i made this year
Dymondwood striker from Neal.
Gooserbat mouth yelpers.
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Want to sell that SS box?


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Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: hawkeye1958 on May 15, 2023, 07:20:53 AM
Nathan Taylor Red Slate,

David Halloran Twisted Sister,

Zink WICKED SERIES Turkey Box Call
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Lcmacd 58 on May 15, 2023, 10:03:12 AM
DH Longbox
DH short box
2 pot calls
Winky Hicks push pin
3 or 4 mouth calls
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: Yoder409 on May 16, 2023, 08:59:32 PM
It varies, day to day.......

This morning:

Couple Gooserbat diaphragms
Redbeard figured canarywood 4-track player
Marlin Watkins macassar/persimmon box
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: lunghit on May 22, 2023, 02:21:22 PM
David Halloran Twisted Sister
Buster red slate
Enticer silver thunder extreme
Title: Re: What’s in your vest this spring?
Post by: TalknTurkey on May 22, 2023, 11:35:52 PM
Halloran Twisted Sister
Daybreak Padauk Ceramic
Honey Hole Game Calls mouth calls