Just curious who actually is hunting with a $1K or $2K box call ??
Costs pop into everyone's mind first. But others.......... original Gibson, Turkey in the Pines or 12-hole Lynch, Walt Winterbottom, Tom Turpin........... ??
I don't have any of the mentioned but I hunted a snakewood/wormy butternut Marlin Watkins fiddle the other day and I made sure I moved it to the side before it got smashed on the mad dash to the turkey after the shot!lol
Don't have one in that price range, but I would run it hunting if I did. Might not be often, but I'd do it. Closest I'd come is carrying two fiddleboxes at once.
Taking it might bring some good juju.
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Don't have any calls in that price range but do have a few Chisholm trough calls now and their begging to hunt. I will take one out this year as it sounds so good but will be very careful. I also have a 1986 DD Adams super slate that sounds fantastic. I want to hunt it in a bad way but Roger Parks says leave it home. He's fixed more of these than I have seen so I'll take his word for it. Don't want his next fix to be my call.
I would hunt one if I had it, I am over my crawling under fences!
Not a box call, so there is some difference in regards to durability, but family (2 kids and Dad and me) we all carry Farmer's Woodwinds in the woods every hunt. He made them to be used.
Quote from: DocHolliday on April 22, 2020, 10:00:56 AM
Not a box call, so there is some difference in regards to durability, but family (2 kids and Dad and me) we all carry Farmer's Woodwinds in the woos every hunt. He made them to be used.
Good on all of you !!! :icon_thumright:
That's some serious collectability walking around in the woods with you guys.
Likewise.............every call I listed in the OP was "made to be used". Interesting that no one is owning up to actually USING one yet.
someone send me a Cost and I will hunt it, and it is going to rain here in the am..
I've hunted with a Dan Searcy call. About the most expensive one I've owned.
If I had a Farmer trumpet and could run it then I would hunt that son of a gun!
Quote from: davisd9 on April 23, 2020, 03:20:54 PM
If I had a Farmer trumpet and could run it then I would hunt that son of a gun!
... and you'd let me borrow it, right? ...right? ;D
Quote from: 3bailey3 on April 22, 2020, 10:14:59 PM
someone send me a Cost and I will hunt it, and it is going to rain here in the am..
Anxious to see how many offers you get on this one................ ;D
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Quote from: davisd9 on April 23, 2020, 03:20:54 PM
If I had a Farmer trumpet and could run it then I would hunt that son of a gun!
... and you'd let me borrow it, right? ...right? ;D
Absolutely!
I hunt with mine.
hunt my Frank cox trumpets, well one at a time. Almost bought a Neil cost box a couple of years ago for $750. It was well used but did sound real good
Quote from: Arrowhead on April 29, 2020, 01:33:37 PM
I hunt with mine.
You are a braver soul than am I. :theman:
Quote from: Yoder409 on April 29, 2020, 09:26:24 PM
Quote from: Arrowhead on April 29, 2020, 01:33:37 PM
I hunt with mine.
You are a braver soul than am I. :theman:
I fell hard yesterday on some wet rocks, luckily I had moved my favorite Snozz mini boat to an inside pocket when it started raining, had it been in it's normal place it would of been smashed.
I don't fall often, but when I do it's usually because of wet rocks and not because of Dos Equise
Quote from: crow on April 29, 2020, 10:36:44 PM
Quote from: Yoder409 on April 29, 2020, 09:26:24 PM
Quote from: Arrowhead on April 29, 2020, 01:33:37 PM
I hunt with mine.
You are a braver soul than am I. :theman:
I fell hard yesterday on some wet rocks, luckily I had moved my favorite Snozz mini boat to an inside pocket when it started raining, had it been in it's normal place it would of been smashed.
I don't fall often, but when I do it's usually because of wet rocks and not because of Dos Equise
Case in point.
The unforseen OOPS !! is just one of the reasons I couldn't bring myself to hunt an expensive, irreplaceable call.
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Quote from: crow on April 29, 2020, 10:36:44 PM
Quote from: Yoder409 on April 29, 2020, 09:26:24 PM
Quote from: Arrowhead on April 29, 2020, 01:33:37 PM
I hunt with mine.
You are a braver soul than am I. :theman:
I fell hard yesterday on some wet rocks, luckily I had moved my favorite Snozz mini boat to an inside pocket when it started raining, had it been in it's normal place it would of been smashed.
I don't fall often, but when I do it's usually because of wet rocks and not because of Dos Equise
Case in point.
The unforseen OOPS !! is just one of the reasons I couldn't bring myself to hunt an expensive, irreplaceable call.
Im just curious as to why even have it if its not going to be used to call in a turkey?
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Quote from: Abomb on May 01, 2020, 03:11:02 PMIm just curious as to why even have it if its not going to be used to call in a turkey?
Can't speak for others. But for myself, it'd be to own and preserve a rare and irreplaceable piece of turkey hunting history.
Kinda like having a frame-off restored '57 Chevy but not driving it to work every day on slushy, winter roads.
Quote from: Yoder409 on May 01, 2020, 06:17:21 PM
Quote from: Abomb on May 01, 2020, 03:11:02 PMIm just curious as to why even have it if its not going to be used to call in a turkey?
Can't speak for others. But for myself, it'd be to own and preserve a rare and irreplaceable piece of turkey hunting history.
Kinda like having a frame-off restored '57 Chevy but not driving it to work every day on slushy, winter roads.
Or more like having that frame-off '57 but hauling it on a trailer everywhere you go and never driving it?
Quote from: paboxcall on May 01, 2020, 06:18:47 PM
Quote from: Yoder409 on May 01, 2020, 06:17:21 PM
Quote from: Abomb on May 01, 2020, 03:11:02 PMIm just curious as to why even have it if its not going to be used to call in a turkey?
Can't speak for others. But for myself, it'd be to own and preserve a rare and irreplaceable piece of turkey hunting history.
Kinda like having a frame-off restored '57 Chevy but not driving it to work every day on slushy, winter roads.
Or more like having that frame-off '57 but hauling it on a trailer everywhere you go and never driving it?
Yep. There are those who'll do that.
Quote from: Yoder409 on May 01, 2020, 06:17:21 PM
Quote from: Abomb on May 01, 2020, 03:11:02 PMIm just curious as to why even have it if its not going to be used to call in a turkey?
Can't speak for others. But for myself, it'd be to own and preserve a rare and irreplaceable piece of turkey hunting history.
Kinda like having a frame-off restored '57 Chevy but not driving it to work every day on slushy, winter roads.
I understand your point. I see it as if the builder took the time to build it to sound like and call a turkey. Im using it. Not sitting somewhere collecting dust. I have quite a few of what everyone calls the rare high end calls and have gotten and plan to continue getting blood on them. And then give them to my boys to use. To me thats where their value is. Not saying your view is wrong just a difference in the way people view them.
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its a tool....you only go around once imho use it don't just look at it.
Quote from: Abomb on May 01, 2020, 07:15:12 PM
Quote from: Yoder409 on May 01, 2020, 06:17:21 PM
Quote from: Abomb on May 01, 2020, 03:11:02 PMIm just curious as to why even have it if its not going to be used to call in a turkey?
Can't speak for others. But for myself, it'd be to own and preserve a rare and irreplaceable piece of turkey hunting history.
Kinda like having a frame-off restored '57 Chevy but not driving it to work every day on slushy, winter roads.
I understand your point. I see it as if the builder took the time to build it to sound like and call a turkey. Im using it. Not sitting somewhere collecting dust. I have quite a few of what everyone calls the rare high end calls and have gotten and plan to continue getting blood on them. And then give them to my boys to use. To me thats where their value is. Not saying your view is wrong just a difference in the way people view them.
Yep.
I understand YOUR point of view, as well. It's just not mine............and mine ain't yours. I don't have a problem using higher end calls in the woods. But heirlooms..........collectibles........"museum pieces".............calls that are approaching $1K or $2K or more....... It'd have to be a warm sunny day and the call would have to be carried in a Pelican case.
Antique tractors are collectable too I wouldn't want to use one farming. I had a cost in the 90s to early 2000s sold it. If I got another cost it would be for display only because I think today's call makers make better sounding calls. Dawkins,watkins,Mann a former cost study,have much better killing machines.
I hunt some valuable calls that weren't expensive when I bought them. I'm not gonna sell them. So, dollar value is irrelevant.
I do not take calls without sentimental value when travelling though. Money can't replace those.
I DO ..THAT'S WHAT NEIL INTENDED IT TO BE USED FOR !
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I salute you !!!
Have hunted many mornings with a paddle of Neils...magic always answered.
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Quote from: ManfromGreenSwamp on May 03, 2020, 07:48:14 PM
Have hunted many mornings with a paddle of Neils...magic always answered.
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Most excellent !!!!!!
I have never laid hands on an original Neil paddle caller. I would LOVE to play one for a while.
I hunted for years with a Neil Cost Walnut over Poplar box call from 1981 and just a year or so
ago I stopped and put it up - killed a lot of birds with that box - still looking for that special box that
can replace it but I just keep bouncing around using different ones