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Let's say someone bet you a million dollars that you couldn't kill a turkey on any given day (maybe sunny or maybe snowing; maybe fall or maybe spring; maybe an Eastern in Mississippi or a Merriams in Oregon), but you're only allowed to use one call to do so, what call are you packing in your pocket? And be specific, if it's a diaphragm what's the brand and what's the cut.

I got to thinking about this earlier because I've got way too much time on my hands right now and my answer surprised me. I'm carrying a Ralph Permar delrin classic and I'm shooting him dead late morning


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Sheaux Stopper V cut

My slate Lil Deuce and hickory striker.  It would be like taking candy from a baby.....$1million return on a $10 call bought maybe 25yrs ago

40 yr old box from Smith's game calls . Love that thing

Primos True Triple  :gobble:

Gooserbat OSS Ghost Cut - Starting running one last year and found myself not using anything else

One of my trumpets which ever one I pick up.

Ralph Snodgrass's mini boat paddle call. Really don't mind much which wood combo, his minis all produce bankable results.

A million dollars on the line and I'm not taking a call.   I'm bobcat'n up to him like the old days and shooting him center mass.     

Hooks swindler diaphragm but def creeping as much as possible if he's giving his position away


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Quote from: guesswho on February 16, 2021, 04:58:32 PM
A million dollars on the line and I'm not taking a call.   I'm bobcat'n up to him like the old days and shooting him center mass.   

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A tube call , because I can make any turkey sound on it included a gobble if it comes to that .
Ps , I'll probably need some of the million to get out of jail , because I can't guarantee anything on anything on any of my gar holes :(. 

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Quote from: guesswho on February 16, 2021, 04:58:32 PM
A million dollars on the line and I'm not taking a call.   I'm bobcat'n up to him like the old days and shooting him center mass.   

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I LOVE IT!!!


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:z-winnersmiley: :TooFunny:

Kaiser Calls curly maple glass with purpleheart soundboard and purpleheart striker.
My absolute go to call, and I'm killing him off the roost on a cool May morning!


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Howie, I bet you a million I can tell you who made your tube caller.  How are you?

Shannon push pin, No doubt here........no question this would be the call....my magic hour is between 8:00 am and 9:00....

I'd rifle the first one I saw and squeak on a mouth call while I deposited the money in the bank. ;D

I'm going to scrape my debit card against my wallet and shoot a butterball right in the frozen food section of the Walmarts... probably banned for life, but I will start shopping Costco or Piggly Wiggly after I get out of jail. I'll have plenty of folding money.

I'm taking a 223 and a crow call.  I'll keep him shock gobbling and pick him off at 300 yards.

Mora over walnut Mistfit ..Marlin ... mid spring morning ... 7:30 - 2:30

Doing great silvestris !  Yep , the ole Morgon caller has been the death of many through the years ! Still the best ever made imo .   I hope your well

Quote from: guesswho on February 16, 2021, 04:58:32 PM
A million dollars on the line and I'm not taking a call.   I'm bobcat'n up to him like the old days and shooting him center mass.   

I was thinking similarly and hope there'd be some dry leaves around for scratching. May even put the ol' Pinhoti Crawl on 'em. One call though, it'd be a pot call a friend made for me. Glass on top, small piece of slate on bottom. That bottom piece makes the sweetest soft talk of any pot I have.

Quote from: Gooserbat on February 16, 2021, 06:12:43 PM
I'm taking a 223 and a crow call.  I'll keep him shock gobbling and pick him off at 300 yards.

I like your style!!


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Gun to my head, Yingling slate. Original gray slate. Black locust striker. It'll be a heavy walk back to the truck.


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   My ENTICER laminated Glass Pot made by Al Holbert of Rome,PA.

Million dollars? How about an owl hooter to just keep him gobbling while I slip in and limb lift him before fly down :TooFunny:

Quote from: timberjack86 on February 16, 2021, 07:32:29 PM
Million dollars? How about an owl hooter to just keep him gobbling while I slip in and limb lift him before fly down :TooFunny:

I shouldn't like this so much but I do. Between your plan and the, ".223 and a crow call," it would appear a great number amongst us would turn rogue in a hurry if the stakes were high enough.


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Quote from: chatterbox on February 16, 2021, 05:23:28 PM
Kaiser Calls curly maple glass with purpleheart soundboard and purpleheart striker.
My absolute go to call, and I'm killing him off the roost on a cool May morning!


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X2 for the GS-1!!!!!










And the pellets in the feet...........


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Quote from: ChesterCopperpot on February 16, 2021, 08:06:22 PM

Quote from: timberjack86 on February 16, 2021, 07:32:29 PM
Million dollars? How about an owl hooter to just keep him gobbling while I slip in and limb lift him before fly down :TooFunny:

I shouldn't like this so much but I do. Between your plan and the, ".223 and a crow call," it would appear a great number amongst us would turn rogue in a hurry if the stakes were high enough.


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233 and crow call are legal in several states, WV, TX, VA I think and a few more.  In fact if I make it to Texas this spring I intend to rifle one bird.  He'll be the sacrificial turkey for all those that have hung up out of range and gobbled their fool heads off. 

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Quote from: ChesterCopperpot on February 16, 2021, 08:06:22 PM

Quote from: timberjack86 on February 16, 2021, 07:32:29 PM
Million dollars? How about an owl hooter to just keep him gobbling while I slip in and limb lift him before fly down :TooFunny:

I shouldn't like this so much but I do. Between your plan and the, ".223 and a crow call," it would appear a great number amongst us would turn rogue in a hurry if the stakes were high enough.


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233 and crow call are legal in several states, WV, TX, VA I think and a few more.  In fact if I make it to Texas this spring I intend to rifle one bird.  He'll be the sacrificial turkey for all those that have hung up out of range and gobbled their fool heads off.

ain't no laws in Tn about limb lifting either :TooFunny:

Probably just my wing bone because I'm confident with it and I've called a lot of birds with it.


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Tube call


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Woodhaven Copperhead.

A modified ghost cut made especially for myself. Have not used any other mouth call for years now as it's my go to. Really getting into using a Wingbone callers so that's a close second!


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Well, I would be too choked up thinkin about that million $, I  couldn't blow a mouth call. I'd have to "Indian Bill" him.

It would have to a "coin toss" between my Richard Hudson Dymondwood/Limba hen box and Ralph Permar 1940, Either one will work and my guess would be late morning after he had finished entertaining all his lady friends he spent the night with.

I would go the "Texas Turkey Shoot" route myself.  Pay some landowner a couple of G's, go sit at the nearest feeder, and mow 'em down.  I'd pick up the nearest blade of grass, stick it in my mouth, and suck on it a couple of times to say I was callin' 'em in!  Might even try to make it a challenge and line 'em all up and get my four-bird limit with one shot.  Hmmm, ...wonder if that would mean I get four million in the deal?... ;D

Now, if I really had to go "turkey Huntin", at this point in time I would stick with a triple-reed, .004 yellow/.003 black/.003 green in a tight-stretched, clipped-wing V-cut "Gobbler Clobbler".   :icon_thumright:

Oh yeah, and under the current conditions, I would make sure that Texas blind was heated. Don't want my little tootsies to get cold while I'm callin' all them gobblers in!   :angel9:

This is interesting, so after all the chest thumping over the years over doing turkey hunting right, a lot if not most of us would compromise our standards for a million dollars. Sign me up, he's dead however I can do it, the hell with standards. I can repent everyday as I enjoy the rest of my retirement days financially secure. In the end it's just a damn bird...life rules. So that brings up a point why do we get our panties all bunched up over how anyone else does it when money changes our approach?

Doubt I wold do anything different than I currently do.  A million dollars would be great but even if I did not meet the terms I already won by being in the spring woods.  Pressure makes mistakes.

Quote from: davisd9 on February 17, 2021, 08:09:48 AM
Doubt I wold do anything different than I currently do.  A million dollars would be great but even if I did not meet the terms I already won by being in the spring woods.  Pressure makes mistakes.

I think you're missing the part about "it's a bet",...which to me means that if you didn't kill a gobbler in a day, you OWED the other guy a million dollars.  I suspect that would add an itty-bitty amount of pressure to that "it's just another day in the spring woods" attitude!   :angel9: ;D :D

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Quote from: davisd9 on February 17, 2021, 08:09:48 AM
Doubt I wold do anything different than I currently do.  A million dollars would be great but even if I did not meet the terms I already won by being in the spring woods.  Pressure makes mistakes.

I think you're missing the part about "it's a bet",...which to me means that if you didn't kill a gobbler in a day, you OWED the other guy a million dollars.  I suspect that would add an itty-bitty amount of pressure to that "it's just another day in the spring woods" attitude!   :angel9: ;D :D

Then I would pass on the bet.

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Quote from: GobbleNut on February 17, 2021, 08:24:05 AM

Quote from: davisd9 on February 17, 2021, 08:09:48 AM
Doubt I wold do anything different than I currently do.  A million dollars would be great but even if I did not meet the terms I already won by being in the spring woods.  Pressure makes mistakes.

I think you're missing the part about "it's a bet",...which to me means that if you didn't kill a gobbler in a day, you OWED the other guy a million dollars.  I suspect that would add an itty-bitty amount of pressure to that "it's just another day in the spring woods" attitude!   :angel9: ;D :D

Then I would pass on the bet.

I suspect a lot of us would get "tight-sphincter syndrome" if a bet like this was a reality!   ;D :laugh:

I could bet a million, now paying off a million might be a problem. Can I pay it off $10.00 a month interest free.

If I was to limit myself to the standard ethics and a call, I'd probably go with a woodhaven copperhead.

I'd take that bet all day long any day.   And if I lost I'd just call it student debt and let someone else worry about paying it.

As the challenge was layed out i would accept it immediately. And then take a 30 pack of beer and my shotgun up to the neighbors and hand him the beer, shoot one of his "free range" gobblers and then we can sit and have a few more beers. Since a wild turkey was not specified that should do the trick. I have called them in enough to have already satisfied that end of the " hunt".

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Some of y'all are misinterpreting the conditions here You don't get to decide when or where. For instance, you may be sent to kill a Tennessee eastern in a foot and a half of snow during a fall season. You get to take one call.

Now the shooting them off a turkey farm, you are right that I didn't specify a wild turkey, so Wild Turkey and a Tyson turkey farm it is if you can find one in whichever designated state is assigned at the time of the wager


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kinda like going to a casino....98% of the games are rigged to favor the casino. I'd never take that bet so my  choice of call wouldn't matter. Gosh I think a Tenn eastern in a foot and half of snow would be easier than a monsoon in the moutains on the last day of spring season.

Indecent Proposal 2.0--- So for a million, yes I would limb lift him, having never honestly done that or even wanted too. The interesting question is what would be the minimum to do the deed? I don't really want to think about that too hard. I'm glad this hypothetical is just that. I don't think I could be bought off too cheap, but for a million, I would sin greatly and ask for forgiveness.

It would cost you far less than seven digits to get me to punch a tree tag.

I could pick any box, friction or diaphragm in my vest and be a million dollars mo moneyed...

Quote from: Dontfearthereaper on February 17, 2021, 05:14:00 PM
Well I have found out what people think about reaping on here, but I have to say a million dollars and I would start walking though a field with a fan in front of me at first light and I'd be out of there in time to make a post on here about it by lunch

What is up with wanting to reap? Can't kill a turkey with your skills? Sounds like you need a good teacher.

Quote from: Dontfearthereaper on February 17, 2021, 05:14:00 PM
Well I have found out what people think about reaping on here, but I have to say a million dollars and I would start walking though a field with a fan in front of me at first light and I'd be out of there in time to make a post on here about it by lunch

The reaper doesn't need a fan nor a field


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Quote from: THattaway on February 16, 2021, 06:08:48 PM
I'd rifle the first one I saw and squeak on a mouth call while I deposited the money in the bank. ;D

I'll 1 up you.  Hes not even getting off the roost. Lol

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Quote from: deerhunt1988 on February 16, 2021, 06:49:04 PM

Quote from: guesswho on February 16, 2021, 04:58:32 PM
A million dollars on the line and I'm not taking a call.   I'm bobcat'n up to him like the old days and shooting him center mass.   

I was thinking similarly and hope there'd be some dry leaves around for scratching. May even put the ol' Pinhoti Crawl on 'em. One call though, it'd be a pot call a friend made for me. Glass on top, small piece of slate on bottom. That bottom piece makes the sweetest soft talk of any pot I have.

I'd bet on you deerhunt1988   :)

Quote from: ChesterCopperpot on February 17, 2021, 10:54:00 AM
Some of y'all are misinterpreting the conditions here You don't get to decide when or where. For instance, you may be sent to kill a Tennessee eastern in a foot and a half of snow during a fall season. You get to take one call.

Now the shooting them off a turkey farm, you are right that I didn't specify a wild turkey, so Wild Turkey and a Tyson turkey farm it is if you can find one in whichever designated state is assigned at the time of the wager


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Heck, that snow would help track him. I'd pick me a call and put it in my pocket and deer hunt him. Lol

Martin Mouthcall Reverse Combo Cut

Woodhaven toxic orange diaphragm and my 30-06. Goodbye student loans!

Woodhaven Green Hornet diaphragm

Woodhaven Red Wasp mouth call

Quote from: Howie g on February 16, 2021, 06:26:39 PM
Doing great silvestris !  Yep , the ole Morgon caller has been the death of many through the years ! Still the best ever made imo .   I hope your well

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And gitcher checkbook out...........

Right now a Stumpy ceramic pot.

tough decision. Id probably just take several of my calls and number them. Put the numbers in a bingo cage and draw a number. I have confidence in most of my calls. but I would only put my box calls and one pot call into the drawing. so odds are it would be a box call that would be drawn. Most are purple heart. if you held a gun to my head, I would probably grab  my oldest call "that I use" purple heart over some imitation mahogany used for furniture cheap furniture. its real wood that looks like mahogany but its not...I don't know what the actual wood is. the bottom in pine. This call sat on the ground in Oklahoma by the red river for 2 years, and was recovered by my friend who made the call and hunted that area. He gave the call to me years later. He cleaned it up and refinished and it sound better after rotting in the woods for 2 years than it ever sounded. the call is priceless to me.

1958 Lynch's World Champion Turkey Call, Model 102


A tried and true champion with a deep loud tone from age.