Title: What are you carrying on opening day?
Post by: MossyOak92 on March 10, 2022, 10:10:50 PM
Post by: MossyOak92 on March 10, 2022, 10:10:50 PM
What calls are y'all putting in the vest for opening day?
I'm taking a Bob Buckner adjustable, Richard Hudson hen box, and a mouth call I made. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220311/f2822137ee7e5a6238a0f3caa84c6476.jpg)
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I'm taking a Bob Buckner adjustable, Richard Hudson hen box, and a mouth call I made. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220311/f2822137ee7e5a6238a0f3caa84c6476.jpg)
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Post by: Dtrkyman on March 10, 2022, 10:46:24 PM
Post by: Dtrkyman on March 10, 2022, 10:46:24 PM
Halloran crystal mistress with 4 strikers and 3-5 mouth calls, a friend of mine make all my mouth calls.
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Post by: cracker4112 on March 10, 2022, 10:58:37 PM
Post by: cracker4112 on March 10, 2022, 10:58:37 PM
I'll have a couple mouth calls, and a Lonnie Mabry box and aluminum pot. Oh wait opener was last week!
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Post by: MossyOak92 on March 10, 2022, 11:04:22 PM
Post by: MossyOak92 on March 10, 2022, 11:04:22 PM
Quote from: cracker4112 on March 10, 2022, 10:58:37 PMI wish I could chase one now. Going to have to wait until April 1st to get after them.
I'll have a couple mouth calls, and a Lonnie Mabry box and aluminum pot. Oh wait opener was last week!
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Post by: Greg Massey on March 10, 2022, 11:19:06 PM
Post by: Greg Massey on March 10, 2022, 11:19:06 PM
Just a variety of different calls.. boxes, pots, small trumpet, push pin and a couple of mouth calls .. alone with the other necessary essentials ..
Title: Re: What are you carrying on opening day?
Post by: Zobo on March 11, 2022, 12:32:24 AM
Post by: Zobo on March 11, 2022, 12:32:24 AM
Right now I'm thinking I'm gonna go with: last seasons very productive S&S purpleheart over mineral poplar shortbox, a great Scott Basehore yellowheart over mahogany longbox, a very consistent Dustin Jones crystal over cherry walnut pot, my sentimental favorite Randy Clark "small talk" slate square-pot, and a Lewis Stowe ironwood trumpet around my neck....but that could definitely change tomorrow :cowboy:
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Post by: Sanders153 on March 11, 2022, 01:15:42 AM
Post by: Sanders153 on March 11, 2022, 01:15:42 AM
Two Daybreak pots ( one ceramic and one slate ) / hustlin hen box / couple of lost lake mouth calls / custom Harrison hootn stick
Title: Re: What are you carrying on opening day?
Post by: PoolGobbler on March 11, 2022, 05:25:00 AM
Post by: PoolGobbler on March 11, 2022, 05:25:00 AM
DH crystal mistress, derby city slate, SS short box. Can't come soon enough!
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Post by: Prohunter3509 on March 11, 2022, 06:20:07 AM
Post by: Prohunter3509 on March 11, 2022, 06:20:07 AM
1 mouth call
I Lonnie snead hot hen
And 1 trumpet
I Lonnie snead hot hen
And 1 trumpet
Title: Re: What are you carrying on opening day?
Post by: ChesterCopperpot on March 11, 2022, 07:13:31 AM
Post by: ChesterCopperpot on March 11, 2022, 07:13:31 AM
Buster Halford persimmon green slate. Brad Roberts glass. Peck Martin Cherry Bomb. Toss up between an AGE osage X trumpet or a ringed gidgee Greg Gwaltney made me, a Permar improved Jordan, and a Gooserbat Soul Sister. Three pots, two yelpers, and a mouth call. As far as guns, probably tote the CZ 1012 on the opener and shoot him with a load of Apex Ninjees!
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Title: Re: What are you carrying on opening day?
Post by: richard black on March 11, 2022, 07:38:51 AM
Post by: richard black on March 11, 2022, 07:38:51 AM
Carrying 1 AGE abw trumpet, 1 Gaskins scratchbox, 1 mouth call. Less is more and that's all I need.
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Post by: rstewart8706 on March 11, 2022, 07:47:56 AM
Post by: rstewart8706 on March 11, 2022, 07:47:56 AM
A scratch and dent box call I got from Gooserbat, a walnut 25th anniversary Super Yelper scratchbox call, my trusty Primos limbhanger mouth call and a no-named slate call that I inherited from my dad.
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Post by: davisd9 on March 11, 2022, 07:59:16 AM
Post by: davisd9 on March 11, 2022, 07:59:16 AM
Brazilian Rosewood Mark Prudhomme and Kenny Pedelahore trumpet and either a 5.5" or 6" Buice Osage.
Title: Re: What are you carrying on opening day?
Post by: GobbleNut on March 11, 2022, 08:02:20 AM
Post by: GobbleNut on March 11, 2022, 08:02:20 AM
I generally carry 12-20 or so mouth calls, a couple of slate-surface pot calls, a handful of strikers, and a tube call. I occasionally carry a box call just to have some added weight to lug around... ;D
Title: Re: What are you carrying on opening day?
Post by: ChesterCopperpot on March 11, 2022, 08:11:46 AM
Post by: ChesterCopperpot on March 11, 2022, 08:11:46 AM
Old timers popping in like, "Son, I bubble cluck and fly down cackle on a laurel leaf I pluck off the trail morning of." 
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Title: Re: What are you carrying on opening day?
Post by: Happy on March 11, 2022, 08:19:44 AM
Post by: Happy on March 11, 2022, 08:19:44 AM
I don't even know if I will hunt opening day. Its mainly weather dependent and I kinda like for all the box call squawkers and hooty hooers to flood the roads and woods to give the turkeys a heads up that its game on. If I do go, at most I will take a bunch of diaphragm calls, a yelper of some sort, a scratch box and a pot call. A shotgun and some shells.
Title: Re: What are you carrying on opening day?
Post by: Nathan_Wiles on March 11, 2022, 08:22:08 AM
Post by: Nathan_Wiles on March 11, 2022, 08:22:08 AM
Everything but the kitchen sink on opening day. I'll look like a Sherpa guide carrying National Geographic's expedition gear up Everest.
By the end of the season I'm carrying some mouth calls in my pocket, a trumpet, a tube call and a seat cushion.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220311/9385187eb315944017528993c2aa5e2a.jpg)
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By the end of the season I'm carrying some mouth calls in my pocket, a trumpet, a tube call and a seat cushion.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220311/9385187eb315944017528993c2aa5e2a.jpg)
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Post by: GobbleNut on March 11, 2022, 08:27:18 AM
Post by: GobbleNut on March 11, 2022, 08:27:18 AM
Quote from: ChesterCopperpot on March 11, 2022, 08:11:46 AM
Old timers popping in like, "Son, I bubble cluck and fly down cackle on a laurel leaf I pluck off the trail morning of."
I'll have you know I resemble that remark!! ;D :TooFunny:
Title: What are you carrying on opening day?
Post by: ChesterCopperpot on March 11, 2022, 08:29:44 AM
Post by: ChesterCopperpot on March 11, 2022, 08:29:44 AM
Quote from: GobbleNut on March 11, 2022, 08:27:18 AMI think Herb McClure mentions an old timer using a laurel leaf in his book Native Turkeys. It was either there or Nunnery's Old Pro. I will say I've tried it. You can get a cluck out of one with some practice. And if a man kills one that way, by god, he's got my attention!
I'll have you know I resemble that remark!! ;D :TooFunny:
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Post by: roosterstraw on March 11, 2022, 09:18:07 AM
Post by: roosterstraw on March 11, 2022, 09:18:07 AM
Going with a crystal mistress, outlaw hen, buster glass, Mac slate. Watkins fiddle box. A diaphragm or two.
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Post by: Tail Feathers on March 11, 2022, 12:24:41 PM
Post by: Tail Feathers on March 11, 2022, 12:24:41 PM
I'll pare it down to a half dozen mouth calls if I can.
I'll have a firedup crystal and a Pat Strawser slate in my vest.
I don't often carry a box call and none made the opening day list.
I'll have a firedup crystal and a Pat Strawser slate in my vest.
I don't often carry a box call and none made the opening day list.
Title: Re: What are you carrying on opening day?
Post by: redjones on March 11, 2022, 12:53:27 PM
Post by: redjones on March 11, 2022, 12:53:27 PM
S&S short box,Buster red slate,Yingling titanium,couple of JLH strikers and a Ezolt wingbone as of now.
Greg
Greg
Title: Re: What are you carrying on opening day?
Post by: Sixes on March 11, 2022, 01:06:12 PM
Post by: Sixes on March 11, 2022, 01:06:12 PM
Prudhomme and/or KP trumpet, spring allure ceramic or mabry/durham/Cody slate and a.couple of Gooserbat mouth calls, Tom Swatter and Heckler. Mabry scratch box
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Post by: grayfox on March 11, 2022, 02:42:32 PM
Post by: grayfox on March 11, 2022, 02:42:32 PM
SS short box
Lonnie Sneed Hot hen or Outlaw Hen
Enticer Silver Thunder Extreme Aluminum
Gooserbat Classic Hen mouth call
Mike Yingling Copper/Slate
Fred Cox Red Cedar Scratchbox
Lonnie Sneed Hot hen or Outlaw Hen
Enticer Silver Thunder Extreme Aluminum
Gooserbat Classic Hen mouth call
Mike Yingling Copper/Slate
Fred Cox Red Cedar Scratchbox
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Post by: Big Jeremy on March 11, 2022, 04:03:57 PM
Post by: Big Jeremy on March 11, 2022, 04:03:57 PM
Pots - Yingling copper, Halloran CM, Buster ceramic, Nathan Taylor red slate, and a Sinclair bronzed glass (I like my pots...hard to narrow it down to just 5)
Strikers -probably trim it to just JLH frogwood and tail feather, Herrman gaboon ebony and tulipwood, Remnaric tulipwood, Stuckey dymondwood, Halloran hickory, Fowler black locust, and woodhaven birch laminate.
Boxes - If I take a box (probably won't) it'll be a Mark Six wenge/mineral poplar.
Trumpets - Misfire flamed box elder and Gwaltney desert ironwood trumpets (for in case I need to bump some birds...still mastering...ha!)
Mouth calls - a few Gooserbat bacons, several each of blue and gray ghost from Pinhoti, will Primos signature series
Gun, shells, pruners...and TP!
I always take way too much with me for the first week or so. After that, I'll trim this list in half, or more, and rotate other pots, strikers, boxes, and a Crawdad trumpet in.
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Strikers -probably trim it to just JLH frogwood and tail feather, Herrman gaboon ebony and tulipwood, Remnaric tulipwood, Stuckey dymondwood, Halloran hickory, Fowler black locust, and woodhaven birch laminate.
Boxes - If I take a box (probably won't) it'll be a Mark Six wenge/mineral poplar.
Trumpets - Misfire flamed box elder and Gwaltney desert ironwood trumpets (for in case I need to bump some birds...still mastering...ha!)
Mouth calls - a few Gooserbat bacons, several each of blue and gray ghost from Pinhoti, will Primos signature series
Gun, shells, pruners...and TP!
I always take way too much with me for the first week or so. After that, I'll trim this list in half, or more, and rotate other pots, strikers, boxes, and a Crawdad trumpet in.
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Post by: bowbird87 on March 11, 2022, 04:30:00 PM
Post by: bowbird87 on March 11, 2022, 04:30:00 PM
Buster red slate persimmon
Dawkins crystal
B. Roberts persimmon aluminum
TJ Johnson short box
Lewis Stowe trumpet
Assortment of strikers JLH Lyman
Houndstooth mouth calls
Harrison hooter
Pappy crow call
Dawkins crystal
B. Roberts persimmon aluminum
TJ Johnson short box
Lewis Stowe trumpet
Assortment of strikers JLH Lyman
Houndstooth mouth calls
Harrison hooter
Pappy crow call
Title: Re: What are you carrying on opening day?
Post by: TJR on March 11, 2022, 04:43:57 PM
Post by: TJR on March 11, 2022, 04:43:57 PM
Billy Bush Beggin Machine
Mero trumpet
Halloran slate
Kyle Seal crystal
Shotgun and shells
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Mero trumpet
Halloran slate
Kyle Seal crystal
Shotgun and shells
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Post by: saltysenior on March 11, 2022, 04:51:39 PM
Post by: saltysenior on March 11, 2022, 04:51:39 PM
I carried my Tom Gaskins...
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Post by: Hook hanger on March 11, 2022, 05:51:00 PM
Post by: Hook hanger on March 11, 2022, 05:51:00 PM
Just one call is all I will take into the woods. I like to keep it simple!
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Post by: dayna105 on March 11, 2022, 06:09:34 PM
Post by: dayna105 on March 11, 2022, 06:09:34 PM
Quote from: ChesterCopperpot on March 11, 2022, 08:11:46 AM
Old timers popping in like, "Son, I bubble cluck and fly down cackle on a laurel leaf I pluck off the trail morning of."
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Reminds me of the first time I met the wife's Grandpa. We were sitting in his yard. He plucks a blade of grass and starts making turkey yelps. He passed before I every got to know him.
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Post by: Turkeytider on March 11, 2022, 06:32:22 PM
Post by: Turkeytider on March 11, 2022, 06:32:22 PM
Iffy if I make opening day, but hopefully soon after. SS short box ( walnut/poplar ), Enticer Aluminum pot probably a Persimmon Hill slate.
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Post by: Meleagris gallopavo on March 12, 2022, 08:04:00 AM
Post by: Meleagris gallopavo on March 12, 2022, 08:04:00 AM
More than likely my old trusty 835 will make the first trip afield. Once I've killed one or two with it (maybe I'm being overconfident here) I'll try out the new 301 .410. I'll likely carry my marvelous cane yelper, 2 or 3 pot calls and 2 or 3 Gooserbat diaphragms. I typically carry 3-5 strikers (mostly JLH). I'm particularly interested in using the sinker bullet tree striker I have from Jeff.
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