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going to try using vintage box calls this year,,,,, just for fun,,,
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the quaker boy call is from 1998, singed my Dick Kirby,,,
1998 is vintage? This post made me feel old.
Quote from: paboxcall on March 30, 2024, 11:24:28 AM
1998 is vintage? This post made me feel old.
You ARE old, John Boy. :TooFunny: :TooFunny:
Cool set of calls, right there !!!
I'd lean heavily on the Quaker Boy if I was hungry for turkey. :icon_thumright:
Love the look of that cedar box
Here's one, very old hen in this one. I would not hesitate to hunt it in a pinch. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240330/80e16a1a84b41cd8735808781951fb24.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240330/e90d9a1b87df907f86b683c1ac804098.jpg)
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A lot of those old True Tone boxes were legit. Yep.
I have a friend who kills turkeys every year with a Lohman 870 box call. That is the only call he uses.
I still have my Quaker Boy box just like that one..It'll definitely fool em..
The author Jim Spencer still favors an old Lohman box. I still work in my Primos Lil' Heart Breaker. Broke out my Kenny Morgan Frictionwood (I know it is not a box...but a cool rectangular wooden pot style call) a few times with great success
My old Quaker sounds good might have to get mine out still use my original Heartbreaker yet
I must be getting old also as I bought two out of the three calls pictured new. HA! I have a numbered and dated Quaker Boy "Grand Old Master" and the top Lohman call in the OP photo. My most used vintage box call is an early to mid 1970's Liberty Mississippi Lynch "World Champion".
That QB will get it done fo sure, I yake mine and kill a bird w it now and then. Early on & for a long time it was my main box.
Quote from: WildTigerTrout on April 12, 2024, 09:43:42 PM
I must be getting old also as I bought two out of the three calls pictured new. HA! I have a numbered and dated Quaker Boy "Grand Old Master" and the top Lohman call in the OP photo. My most used vintage box call is an early to mid 1970's Liberty Mississippi Lynch "World Champion".
There were good calls and bad calls in every batch of vintage, production boxes. Problem is....... All too often, the bad ones made it on to the store shelf, same as the good ones.
The older Lynches and Quaker Boys represented some of the very highest percentages of GOOD calls.
I'm vintage myself 1957 so i guess whatever i use is vintage ... lol
Wow .... never considered myself vintage
THATS why my knees hurt .... its called vintage
:TooFunny: :TooFunny:
I had this discussion elsewhere, with some call collector/accumulator guys.
IMHO........ any call in plastic, clamshell packaging.........any call with a web address on the packaging........any call with a UPC on the packaging, CAN'T be considered "vintage".
Well.........apparently "vintage" = 25 years or older. So it's a matter of perspective. And MY perspective is now that of an old fart. :help:
I carry a late 1940/1950ish Lynch World Champion that was my grandfathers. It called in my first 10 or so birds. I've posted a pic before in another post.
Quote from: ColemantownHC on April 14, 2024, 07:01:19 PM
I carry a late 1940/1950ish Lynch World Champion that was my grandfathers. It called in my first 10 or so birds. I've posted a pic before in another post.
Yeah.
That old 12-hole is a warhorse !!! A TREASURE !!!!!
I busted my @$$ crossing a creek along with my old Lynch back in the late 80s and replaced it with a Q.B. Grand Old Master that still gets use these days. I don't consider it vintage. Neither is my Q.B. Boat Paddle. My "newest" box call is a Hustlin' Hen by Billy White from 2003 that he signed for me...it's the only way I know how long I've had it. Every one of them talks the talk too.
Jim
Quote from: Cut N Run on April 15, 2024, 06:23:43 PM
I busted my @$$ crossing a creek along with my old Lynch back in the late 80s and replaced it with a Q.B. Grand Old Master that still gets use these days. I don't consider it vintage. Neither is my Q.B. Boat Paddle. My "newest" box call is a Hustlin' Hen by Billy White from 2003 that he signed for me...it's the only way I know how long I've had it. Every one of them talks the talk too.
Jim
I punched a tag yesterday afternoon thanks to my hustlin hen. They are great boxes
Quote from: Cut N Run on April 15, 2024, 06:23:43 PM
I busted my @$$ crossing a creek along with my old Lynch ........
And that is EXACTLY why I shudder to take a lot of my vintage calls outta the house. :help:
Hunt 'em if ya got 'em :you_rock:
Quote from: Spring Creek Calls on March 30, 2024, 03:49:51 PM
Here's one, very old hen in this one. I would not hesitate to hunt it in a pinch. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240330/80e16a1a84b41cd8735808781951fb24.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240330/e90d9a1b87df907f86b683c1ac804098.jpg)
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I hunt with a True Tone box every time I go to the woods. I have about 3 I've bought through ebay over the years. To my ears, 2 of mine sounds great.
Quote from: Zobo on April 17, 2024, 02:14:36 PM
Hunt 'em if ya got 'em :you_rock:
Yeeeeaaaaahhh............... MAYBE on a very special occasion.
In perfect weather.
I have a lot of turkey calls. I love all shapes and sizes of calls that I have acquired over the years. I have calls that could never be replaced. BUT I don't have a call that I wouldn't take to the woods. I have a few zip lock bags and small plastic containers that I will put my calls in. I carry them in my vest. I remember that my Daddy and Uncles that used to carry bread bags in the turkey woods to put their box call in. They would also run the calls inside the bags if it started raining. Heck if I had a OG push pin that sucker would be in the woods. I am fortunate to have a Tim Bullock push pin that is beautiful and sounds great. It goes to the woods!!!
Have a good one and May God bless y'all!!!
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Quote from: runngun on April 18, 2024, 03:31:11 PM
I have a lot of turkey calls. I love all shapes and sizes of calls that I have acquired over the years. I have calls that could never be replaced. BUT I don't have a call that I wouldn't take to the woods.
Right there with ya.................. Right up until the last sentence. :emoticon-animal-005:
I've got a bunch that'll never see the woods. Partly due to irreplaceability. Partly due to there's only so many days in turkey season.
I do have a special one I'm hoping to take out and kill ONE gobbler with this spring. It'll need to be a bluebird day. And, if I kill one with it, it'll never see the woods again whilst I own it.
Quote from: Yoder409 on April 17, 2024, 08:04:24 PM
Quote from: Zobo on April 17, 2024, 02:14:36 PM
Hunt 'em if ya got 'em :you_rock:
Yeeeeaaaaahhh............... MAYBE on a very special occasion.
In perfect weather.
Oh yeah, have several now that ain't EVER seeing the rain, bag or no bag, I'll somehow manage to screw it up. They've gotten so valuable it's ridiculous, but I do try, but it's getting harder...even for a crazy person ...like me. :gobble:
That would be a good new thread, calls you wouldn't hunt even with the slightest chance of rain.
Quote from: Zobo on April 18, 2024, 10:22:52 PM
That would be a good new thread, calls you wouldn't hunt even with the slightest chance of rain.
Most of 'em. :TooFunny:
Quote from: Yoder409 on April 18, 2024, 10:24:10 PM
Quote from: Zobo on April 18, 2024, 10:22:52 PM
That would be a good new thread, calls you wouldn't hunt even with the slightest chance of rain.
Most of 'em. :TooFunny:
Very, very elitist answer Yoder! :TooFunny:
Quote from: Zobo on April 19, 2024, 10:26:19 AM
Quote from: Yoder409 on April 18, 2024, 10:24:10 PM
Quote from: Zobo on April 18, 2024, 10:22:52 PM
That would be a good new thread, calls you wouldn't hunt even with the slightest chance of rain.
Most of 'em. :TooFunny:
Very, very elitist answer Yoder! :TooFunny:
Well, YEAH.............. ::)
:TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny: