Best box call you ever ran but with a twist!

[chufagold]

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What’s the best box call you ever ran but do not own? Maybe a friend has one or ran at a show etc. don’t list calls that you personally own. The best one I ever ran was a yellowheart strawser at NWTF nationals. Go!

[Jroddc]

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Best I’ve ran that I didn’t own is a toss up between a Ipe/mineral poplar and a mora/butternut fiddle box both of which my friends own

[Sir-diealot]

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Last year at the NE Call Makers Summit I handled a nifty little one sider by Marlin Watkins that I really liked. I do not remember the combination but I could find out as I know somebody else here ended up buying it.

[ManfromGreenSwamp]

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Neil Cost personal Paddle of butternut and cedar, owned by Roland Martin. Every time we got together in the spring and that Cost call played its tune, pure indescribable magic followed. That man and that call taught me tons about gathering turkey beards and feets .


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[Bowguy]

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I have to agree w jrrodc I know exactly the boxes he’s referring to but he’s got some great ones as well. 

[squirrel]

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I just mailed two to a guy in Arkansas to use in my quarantined absence  I hope he will use them as he is a die hard diaphragm user! 

No pics but one was all Pinion and one was a base of red cedar, walls of lodgepole pine and a lid of osage.  I picked two of the best out of this winter's hobby box full of about 50 or so, engraved them so he can't sell them and just sent them out!

Pinion is a strange wood to work with, as is osage, but I like both.  Beetle-killed lodge pole makes a purty cluck I must add.

[Greg Massey]

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Can't say I've ever ran one of somebody else call, that sounds any better than the ones i own. Reason why i pick my sound my tone ..

[Yoder409]

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Paboxcall has a Snozz persimmon shorty that's the schizz.

Spent an afternoon BS'ing with Marlin and running calls (that I didn't buy) in his shop.........

Guy I used to hunt with had a hickory over walnut box by an old boy from SC (who I've been after for about 4 years to build ME a few calls) that sounded just about right.

[Rapscallion Vermilion]

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Haven't had a lot of opportunity to run other peoples calls, but met Charlie Parrish a few years back while hunting in Florida and while sitting around and talking about calls and running them he had me run his personal hunting hen box.  That was a very fine call.

[MikeStaten]

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Scott Witter’s Bloodwood over Black Limba, that he entered in Nashville this year.

[vt35mag]

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I've given this some thought and I can't come up with anything. That's probably a good thing.

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[TauntoHawk]

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Excellent thread, Dawkins short box a friend had

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[Duckdogdad]

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Had a fiend with an original Turpin, but it had a piece of oak glued into the paddle. Most effective call I have ever seen. A friend found it in a garage back in the 80’s and gave it to him. He died three years ago and the call has disappeared.

[Matt k]

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a Lamar Williams cucumber and walnut paddle box a friend has.

[Spring Creek Calls]

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I would say one of Steve Brown's calls at 2019 Unicoi. I bought a maple over butternut and there were a couple more that were equal in sound quality.