This was my worst season ever. Lots of reasons for it, few gobblers and all of them old. No time for preseason scouting and limited time to hunt. I called in a total of two gobblers. One had several hens with him as well. I committed to pretty much a trumpet this spring. I normally run only mouth calls but I’ve called in birds with pots and boxes before. I just feel I capture he emotion of a hen using mouth calls and I’m trying to do the same with trumpets and occasionally a tube. I pulled my pots and box out of my vest, they are done. Nothing wrong with the calls, the one aluminum I pulled sounds great. It has that sound I really like, high pitched with a lot of rasp.
I’m now thinking if I should run friction calls anymore I want something more clean sounding. I hate the idea of carrying slate but I’m seeing several threads on different color slates. I’ve always liked the sound of slate just seen guys struggle to make good sound when the weather isn’t dry.
I’m also considering a new box. I watched a video of a guy named Tim Bullock running a box on his website. I loved the way it sounded but maybe he’s just great with a box and can make all of them sound good.
It’s time to revamp my call arsenal. I’ve bought 3 trumpets with one more on the way. I get bored running the same calls so I’m gonna devote the off season to adding a variety of hen sounds.
Curious to hear members thoughts as to calls that aren’t so raspy. If I want raspy I can handle that with a mouth call. I may even look at scratch boxes, I’ve heard some that sound amazing.
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