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General Forum / Re: I’m a huge Browning fan bu...

Last post by btomlin - Today at 01:37:39 PM

I have a similar deal with my Affinity 3 20ga Elite.  I bought it to shoot doves, quail, pheasants, ducks, etc.  It won't consistently cycle a "standard" 1210fps 7/8 oz bird load.  Called Franchi.  Tech indicated that I wasn't using a "hot" enough trap load.  I advised that the manual called for a 7/8oz 1200fps load as a minimum.  I like the gun enough that I have just started shooting 1300fps 7/8oz loads, but Win AA are more $ than the regular stuff.  Hoping that it loosens up but we are on year 2 and there's nothing more frustrating than your $1000 shotgun not functioning in an infested dove field. It will probably be the last inertia gun that I will own.

["That's wrong.....it's not that they don't hear that sound....it's the sound that they hear everyday!!!"]

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General Forum / Re: Trumpets???

Last post by bbcoach - Today at 11:42:48 AM

One of the men responded with the very popular answer that it was because so few folks use them and it's something different to the turkeys. Mr. Billy Buice interrupted..."That's wrong.....it's not that they don't hear that sound....it's the sound that they hear everyday!!!"

I believe that is 100% true.
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EZ, I LOVE this!

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General Forum / Re: Practicing your calling?

Last post by redwad - Today at 10:35:49 AM

I practice my calls year round. Not daily but several times a week. After deer season I ramp it up though. This year I want to listen to a lot more hen talk. Where do you guys find audio to listen to.

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General Forum / Re: Practicing your calling?

Last post by TrackeySauresRex - Today at 10:22:29 AM

I usually start when the Holliday season ends. The  decorations will go up in the attic and my garage clears out somewhat. Then, my deer gear gets put together put away in early February.

My play room is then organized (Garage) and I start to tinker with everything turkey. Bones, pots and boxes.

Soon I will order some additional latex to assemble some new calls. I usually don't run them until a month out.

["That's wrong.....it's not that they don't hear that sound....it's the sound that they hear everyday!!!"]

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General Forum / Re: Trumpets???

Last post by EZ - Today at 10:17:52 AM

I quit worrying about "why" yelpers (Wingbones, Jordans, Trumpets) work so well in the turkey woods and am just satisfied knowing they are killer calls. Turkeys just like them. Anyone that puts an honest effort into learning and using these instruments will absolutely come to that conclusion.

I'm a turkey hunter first and foremost and use a variety of really good calls and all of them work great, but over the years, the yelpers have risen to the top as my "always go to" calls. That wasn't always the case, even when I first started making wingbones, it was a novelty to me (wish I could say different, lol). I was intrigued by the history and the coolness factor, but had no idea what killer calls these yelpers were. It was a slow process to learn and discover how much I didn't know back in the days of no internet and really very little info on much of anything, let alone the yelpers.

Fast forward to today and I will still tell anyone that there is no "magic wand" turkey call, but, a good yelper is the closest thing I've found. My first trip to Unicoi there was a "Round Table" of Trumpet and Yelper men. Someone in the crowd asked that very question as to "why" these yelpers were so effective. One of the men responded with the very popular answer that it was because so few folks use them and it's something different to the turkeys. Mr. Billy Buice interrupted..."That's wrong.....it's not that they don't hear that sound....it's the sound that they hear everyday!!!"

I believe that is 100% true.

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General Forum / Re: I’m a huge Browning fan bu...

Last post by Tom007 - Today at 10:06:53 AM

Thanks for all the great info. I do believe this is isolated to the new Sweet 16, the other A5's are legendary and are among the best shotguns in history. I wanted to get this info to this great forum just in case someone was interested in one of these guns. The video I posted, sorry it's not a link and is sideways is the best review showing this issue. Good luck to all this spring, thanks again!

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General Forum / Re: Practicing your calling?

Last post by CALLM2U - Today at 09:39:03 AM

My pot calls get played a few times throughout the Fall and Winter.  My mouth calls don't get played until normally after Christmas. 

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General Forum / Re: So You Like Snow

Last post by GobbleNut - Today at 09:32:49 AM

Son of a b****!! No wonder we've got folks from that part of the country moving here to the southwest in droves! And here I thought our daily dust storms with fifty-mile-an-hour winds in the spring were bad! I will view the winds and dust with a new level of appreciation henceforth.    

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General Forum / Re: Practicing your calling?

Last post by GobbleNut - Today at 09:23:47 AM

I rarely use anything but mouth calls, although I do carry a pot or two when hunting. For those friction calls, after the season I do a quick inventory of the calls and strikers to see what I have either broken and/or lost and put away what has survived my escapades...generally until right before the next spring season at which time I will sort through them to see which pot/striker combinations I will most likely lug around with me unused when the season starts.

The mouth calls get stored away after the last hunt in the spring, which is usually in the latter part of May. I will disinfect all the mouth calls I have used and store them away in the fridge. Generally, they will not be touched until after the first of the year sometime. I will usually start getting anxious in anticipation of the upcoming spring hunts at some point and start sorting through my "fridge" mouth calls and making new ones. On average, I would say that process starts a couple of months before my first hunt.

Outside of that, I don't practice much any other time of the year. I suppose I have concluded, after all these years of trying, that my turkey calling ain't gonna get any better with more practice and I might as well resign myself to that. My fundamental theory is to find a gobbler or two out there in the turkey woods each spring that think my calling is good enough as it is. That theory generally works well enough to suit me.

As for those gobblers that think my calling sucks...well, I just leave those for you guys that practice a lot and can kill them!          

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General Forum / Re: So You Like Snow

Last post by Davyalabama - Today at 09:06:25 AM

Nope, I don't like snow, I'm a beach bum.