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Trumpets / Wingbones Forum / Re: #1 hunting trumpet

Last post by wchadw - Today at 06:56:49 PM

Buice. Hands down.

I own many, many other trumpets from some great call makers, but I hunt with one of Mr.Billy's trumpets. 

Yep. I've hunted with a bunch of calls. Buice are my go to hunting call


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Trumpets / Wingbones Forum / Re: #1 hunting trumpet

Last post by Gooserbat - Today at 06:45:58 PM

Permar .45. I just play it well.

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Pot Calls Forum / Re: Best Crystal pot under 80....

Last post by Bottomland OG - Today at 06:37:31 PM

I have 100.00-150.00 pots sitting here from most of the major pot builders in my office, but I personally think that the Wooodhaven Cherry Crystal for around 89.00 give or take is as good a crystal pot as a man needs. I have one new in the pack (had it for years), and not sure why I have not taken it to the woods (it is as good as any higher dollar pot that I have). Every time I take it out of the pack and play it, I always say to myself, "Man, that call sounds really really good." I don't have much of Woodhaven's stuff, but I do know that if you buy A Cherry Crystal from Mike at Woodhaven, he will send you two strikers and also one of his covers to protect the surface. I love his pot call covers.

I agree with this. I also own a pile of different pot calls. The cherry crystal from woodhaven is definitely going to be one of the best calls you're going to find for that price. (Sound and quality)

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20 Gauge Turkey Guns / Re: which 20ga semi-auto?

Last post by Kyle_Ott - Today at 05:47:04 PM

I've never been a cheap gun fan but there are a few semi-autos at reasonable price points I'd strongly consider.


If I was considering another semi-auto I'd only be looking at the following: Winchester SX4, Benelli M2, Franchi Affinity.

The SX4 and the Affinity are a lot of shotguns for the money.  M2 is my all time favorite shotgun.

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Turkey Guns / Re: As 12ga goes, anything out...

Last post by Kyle_Ott - Today at 05:38:13 PM

I'm another 870 fan boy. I've got six of them in various set ups right now. They all shoot lights out and are as reliable as a bag of hammers.

I have not held or shot any of the post bankruptcy ones but have heard good things as above. He could either go that route or find an older used one and tart it up the way he likes.

As for the Nova I've never shot one but have held/shouldered a couple and they just don't blow my skirt up. I don't care for the looks (personal opinion that is totally subjective) and they never felt good in my hands and didn't come to my shoulder right.

Whatever he winds up with hopefully it makes him happy and gets him hunting.

Honestly, I've never held any (insert Ithaca 37, Mossberg 835/500, Winchester Model 12, Benelli Nova, Browning BPS, Charles Daly, etc) that did it for me like an 870.  I've got 4 of them that were made between 93 and 2003 and they're all solid. 

#6

Pot Calls Forum / Re: Cody Calls

Last post by wchadw - Today at 05:27:40 PM

I can't find the post with the current price list? It had an email address for Cody on it. Can someone pm me the email address? I've called 3/4x and left messages and haven't heard back


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Pot Calls Forum / Re: Lightsout Custom Calls

Last post by b wilt - Today at 05:07:35 PM

I received his Persimmon Pot with Green Slate the week before the Ohio Season and had my gobbler within 2 hours the first morning. Beautiful calls.

#8

Team GOATS 2024 / Re: GobbleNut Hunt Log 2024

Last post by GobbleNut - Today at 05:03:09 PM

Friday, May 17th:  The rainy weather has cleared, but the fog has stuck around. Nevertheless, we are parked at a gate into the property well before daylight.  Gathering our gear, we head in, my friends heading towards the roost location and me going the opposite direction towards a long, open ridge that parallels some great looking roosting habitat.  I will be able to easily walk the ridge, listening for gobbling on the timber-covered slopes below.

Standing at a high point at first light, through the fog, I begin to hear gobbling from the birds that my friends are setting up on a quarter-mile away. I mentally wish them luck and slowly begin to work my way away from them down the ridge in the opposite direction, anticipating hearing additional gobblers sounding off at any moment.

Working my way down the ridge for about a half-mile, I have not heard any gobbling...and it is now fully light and nearing fly-down time.  I decide to call, and at my first series of soft clucks and yelps, multiple gobblers gobble back from a ridge across a foggy draw three hundred yards away.  I am in business!

Over the next half hour, I encourage them to come meet me face to face...and they gobble at everything and act like they will eventually come take a look. However, they eventually set up shop across the draw and will not budge despite my best efforts. the fog is lifting so I can see the lay of the land between me and the gobblers, so I decide to try to get closer

I drop off the ridge into the trees and brush below and begin to descend the slope, watching across the draw for any sign of the birds.  Shortly, I can see a clear area across from me that runs up the draw to the open ridge...and looking with my binoculars, I quickly pick up three turkeys on the skyline two hundred yards away.

Looking them over, I can see they are all jakes...or so I think, and my first thought is that these are the birds that have been responding. I step behind some brush and begin to watch for other birds, but can see no others.  In the meantime, one of them has started to work his way along the open ridge towards where I had been initially set up calling to them. He is steadily working his way along, so I decide to move back up to the ridge and see what happens, thinking I at least might have some fun with these birds.

Reaching the open ridge, I look quickly for a spot to set up, but taking a few steps forward, a gobbler suddenly steps out of the brush fifty yards away, catching me flat-footed. He quickly retreats away from me down the ridge and out of sight. This was a good, mature gobbler and he was probably working his way silently to me...IF I had just remained in my first set-up for just a while longer. ...They say patience is a virtue...which escaped me at the moment.

Shortly after the gobbler ran out of sight towards the jakes, I suddenly hear fighting purrs and wing beats in that direction. Apparently, the mature gobbler has run into the jakes...and they have decided to sort matters out as to who is the boss.  At this point, I am cussing myself, but decide I am going to try to sneak closer to the ruckus by dropping back down into the brush and trees on the slope, then move back up and peak over the top a bit closer to where the brouhaha is coming from. All the while, I am now assuming that the mature gobbler is long gone, and I am just "messing" with a bunch of jakes...again, with the intention of just seeing if I can have some fun with them.

I move fifty yards closer out of sight and then carefully move up and peak over the edge of the ridge where it flattens out. The fighting has now stopped, and as I look further down the ridge with the bino's, spot two red heads looking back in my direction a hundred yards away. They do not seem terribly alarmed and I quickly duck back out of sight and continue towards them.

Thinking I am about even with them, I again move up the slope and peak over the top with the bino's. There, now seventy-five yards out, are the two birds...just standing there looking. 

...To be continued...

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Pot Calls Forum / Re: Best Crystal pot under 80....

Last post by mountainhunter1 - Today at 04:32:46 PM

I have 100.00-150.00 pots sitting here from most of the major pot builders in my office, but I personally think that the Wooodhaven Cherry Crystal for around 89.00 give or take is as good a crystal pot as a man needs. I have one new in the pack (had it for years), and not sure why I have not taken it to the woods (it is as good as any higher dollar pot that I have). Every time I take it out of the pack and play it, I always say to myself, "Man, that call sounds really really good." I don't have much of Woodhaven's stuff, but I do know that if you buy A Cherry Crystal from Mike at Woodhaven, he will send you two strikers and also one of his covers to protect the surface. I love his pot call covers.

#10

Trumpets / Wingbones Forum / Re: Trumpet Calling Competitio...

Last post by hpo - Today at 03:53:57 PM

I would love to hear that.

Each time I see this thread pop up I think about a trumpet call competition here on OG...?

As the curmudgeon Frank Cox said, "My Grand Nationals is out there in the go**amn woods with the turkeys."
All kidding aside, I run a yelper all year and always kill some turkeys with one, but I don't hold a candle to some of the fellows on this forum. Of the ones who've posted soundfiles on OG, as I mentioned before, Terry is the best I've heard. To the point I didn't want to believe it was a yelper he was running for awhile. I wish those video files would still play on that old post.


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