Just an observation, when I play a turkey call for evaluation on buying I try and listen like a turkey, not my preferences. I've bought calls that for some reason I didn't like the sound after I bought them and taken them home. A mentor told me a long time ago don't please your ear, please the turkey's ear. I took them out and used them and they called turkeys in. I've noticed over the years the calls I liked called in less turkeys than the calls I didn't like. What I'm saying for example I don't like the 'tinny' sound of aluminum calls but I've found the turkeys love 'em. I've killed far more turkeys with my aluminum pots than any other material. I wonder what the opinion of pot call material hunters use on their 'killer' calls?
I favor glass or crystal. I still don't believe we hear things the way a turkey does though. I just tend to favor the tones that mimic ones that have worked well for me in the past and go from there. I may own around a dozen pot calls but only 3-4 of them have been hunted. They have produced and I am confident in them.
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Some of those calls are better at higher frequencies. Here's an interesting read...
http://www.turkeyhunting247.com/Article/the-truth-behind-high-frquency-calls-Page1.htm (http://www.turkeyhunting247.com/Article/the-truth-behind-high-frquency-calls-Page1.htm)
I'm fond of Ceramic, I have a half dozen or so custom pot calls, but the one that the last 3 birds in a row have gone crazy over is a mass produced cheap Primos Hensanity Frictionite/ceramic. It sounds good to my ears and theirs. Lol
I think it is confidence in your call, I always preferred slate and still use a Blodgett double trouble, basically never used the glass side and that thing has been deadly.
Got a Crystal Mistress from Haloran and that is becoming my favorite. But basically I have a huge amount of confidence in either!
A very old and used Cody II slate. Nothing like it.
A very old and used Cody World Class.
This call is 29 years old I believe, bought from Bill at the Sportsman show in Pa. Never have seen the need to buy and try others. But, I do have a couple others for different situations.
Ceramic is my favorite of all my pots, but glass and crystal are not far behind.. don't care for regular slate at all, it's just doesn't fit my hunting needs..
Wingbone doesn't sound very good up close, but it sounds really good off in the woods a ways.
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Catman - It's odd you say that as I just finished watching your hunt with Jim in TN and was thinking exactly that thing. Most of your videos have you right there at the camera, but in the hunt when you slid behind 15-20 yards the sounds coming from your trumpet were noticeably different. Now I understand why the turkeys love it!
I believe, and I tell my customers, its the vocabulary of that turkey that your playing on that call is more important than the pitch. We all have differant pitched voices, yet we all understand each other. Turkeys are no differant. But put yourself in the middle of China, and I bet you dont understand those locals and vise versa, given the differant pitches of your voices. You have to be able to produce the vocabulary the turkey understands. Just my opinion. That said, I dont use pot calls much anymore. My go to call is my trough call, and Its killer on birds.
I've been at this game longer than most. Over time I've favored high pitch calls. Just sayin'.
We do not even begin to hear the pitch and frequencies that a turkey can...
I have two box calls that I do not much care for the sound of... But they are my best calls for getting birds to respond, and one is always in my vest.
I hunted with a friend this season, that I have not hunted with in some time... He immediately pointed out, he did not like my call, and as he was pointing it out, a turkey gobbled (this is after his calling that did not spark interest). Some time later, the same thing happened with a different bird. By the afternoon, he was telling me to use "my call."
I kinda' feel like that some turkey calls are to a turkey, what over the top cleavage is to a male college student... Something they just can't resist.
I prefer to use a diaphragm or a pot call and slate is my favorite, but when they aren't working or things are slow, I'm quick to pull out an aluminum pot call. It's definitely has a higher pitch and doesn't sound especially sweet to my ear, but the gobblers sure seem to like it. I also have a small cedar box call that has a pretty high pitch and I like to use it later in the morning, when I'm trying to strike up a gobbler or on windy days. Just my opinion, but I believe that the higher pitch carries better/farther and cuts the wind, where others sometimes don't.
Relative to pot calls, I have found the super high pitched front end calls with sharp/snappy cutts the most productive. Many of the aluminum pots I've tried were way too thin/tinny sounding in the woods, but when made properly they have lots of character and produce for me. I have 1 slate, 1 glass, and 5 aluminum pots that really get responses consistently. If I were to hunt with a pot, it would be one of my proven aluminum calls.
I have a call that is by one of the top makers and I love the way it sounds, it has NEVER gotten a response from a turkey in the 3 years I have had it and it goes with me every time I go out. So what I am saying is you may well have a point.