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Box Call Advice Needed UPDATE

Started by GunRunner, June 19, 2021, 12:51:21 PM

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vt35mag

Quote from: GunRunner on June 21, 2021, 07:45:59 PM
Very glad to have Mike Crooks of Spring Creek Turkey Calls volunteer his time and expertise to try to tune this call and make it a functional box call.

Thanks Mike !!
That is awesome Mike is willing to take a crack at it. Please keep us posted on how it comes out!

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vt35mag

Quote from: Happy hooker on June 27, 2021, 10:26:27 AM
Id bet a million bucks Marlin Watkins could tune it!!! is there anybody out there who uses more different varieties of wood so you know he can finesse a sound eventually out of anything.
give him a call or combine it sending it to him with ordering one from him too. that way you get a great call and a restored call at the same time.
Marlin could make wet cardboard sound like a turkey.

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GunRunner

UPDATE:

As mentioned earlier, Mike Crooks of SPRING CREEK TURKEY CALLS graciously volunteered to take a look at my box call and see if he could tune and improve it. I gratefully sent the call to his Michigan shop.

Mike disassembled the call and lightly sanded the lid and rails. He reassembled it with a smaller screw to allow more canting of the lid.  From there he applied Rain Chalk and tuned the call. The major issue he found was the rail thicknesses were very thin at almost 40 thousandths less than what Mike considers normal rail thicknesses. This will not allow for a smooth 2 note high to low yelp and that is why it sounds so bad. Mike did indeed improve the call with his tuning efforts and the call sounds better than ever, but due to the thin rails it will not earn a spot in my ol' tattered vest. 

But no worries there .... during the course of working with Mike, I noticed the great work he does on his Spring Creek Box Calls and I have now procured one of his beautifully crafted short boxes that sounds great and will fit in my vest pocket very nicely next spring.

Kudos to Mike Crooks and Spring Creek Turkey Calls !!

GunRunner
  :turkey:

paboxcall

A quality paddle caller will most run itself.  It just needs someone to carry it around the woods. Yoder409
Over time...they come to learn how little air a good yelper actually requires. ChesterCopperpot

Yoder409

And, there ya have it !!!!

Another (eventually) satisfied customer on OG.    :you_rock:

Big shout out to Mike for a rock solid performance all around !!!!!    :icon_thumright:
PA elitist since 1979

The good Lord ain't made a gobbler I can't kill.  I just gotta be there at the right time.....  on the day he wants to die.

vt35mag

Good deal!
Hats off to Mike for taking this on.
Thank you for following up and not leaving us hanging.