Title: Straight tip or flare tip strikers
Post by: jbrown on March 29, 2022, 01:16:31 PM
Post by: jbrown on March 29, 2022, 01:16:31 PM
Which do you prefer straight tip or flare tip strikers? Do you think that there is an advantage to either? Is either type better for certain calls, like clucks, yelps, purrs or cutting?
Title: Re: Straight tip or flare tip strikers
Post by: outdoors on March 29, 2022, 01:19:55 PM
Post by: outdoors on March 29, 2022, 01:19:55 PM
I use both depends on what the pot likes
Title: Re: Straight tip or flare tip strikers
Post by: Swamp on March 29, 2022, 01:23:10 PM
Post by: Swamp on March 29, 2022, 01:23:10 PM
Personally I can run both to me it's more about the profile on the actual tip. I like mine pretty flat, slightly rounded. It can be straight or flared. I've attached a picture of what I'm doing a terrible job of explaining lol. I feel like this shape is by far the easiest to run and control. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220329/e02eedc139e443b415d0a89d59bb1867.jpg)
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Title: Re: Straight tip or flare tip strikers
Post by: spurs2bgobblin on March 29, 2022, 01:44:23 PM
Post by: spurs2bgobblin on March 29, 2022, 01:44:23 PM
I guess I'm an odd one too because I like both if they're done right I hate a huge flared tip though. I really like Jeff, Stuckey, Roberts and Wendell's flare tips. Fowler is about as good a straight tip as they come.
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Title: Re: Straight tip or flare tip strikers
Post by: Sir-diealot on March 29, 2022, 05:42:51 PM
Post by: Sir-diealot on March 29, 2022, 05:42:51 PM
Flared or the more pronounced mushroom tip is what I really like.
Title: Re: Straight tip or flare tip strikers
Post by: ChesterCopperpot on March 29, 2022, 05:54:19 PM
Post by: ChesterCopperpot on March 29, 2022, 05:54:19 PM
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Title: Re: Straight tip or flare tip strikers
Post by: spurs2bgobblin on March 29, 2022, 05:56:00 PM
Post by: spurs2bgobblin on March 29, 2022, 05:56:00 PM
Quote from: ChesterCopperpot on March 29, 2022, 05:54:19 PM
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Title: Re: Straight tip or flare tip strikers
Post by: turkeyfool on March 30, 2022, 09:16:08 PM
Post by: turkeyfool on March 30, 2022, 09:16:08 PM
I have so many strikers from all of the guys mentioned and I wish I could find more that were almost straight tips but just slightly flaired. I think the best one I've found so far is a Clay Townsend dymanwood 2 piece
Title: Re: Straight tip or flare tip strikers
Post by: Zobo on March 30, 2022, 10:31:56 PM
Post by: Zobo on March 30, 2022, 10:31:56 PM
I know it's probably just in my head, but I feel more in control with a straight tipped striker.
Title: Re: Straight tip or flare tip strikers
Post by: Ches. on April 01, 2022, 09:25:54 AM
Post by: Ches. on April 01, 2022, 09:25:54 AM
I must have close to 15 strikers now, the striker makes the call IMO, not the other way around. I have aluminum, copper, slate, and crystal calls and strikers work on some and not others. I take a call, them run thru all the strikers and put them in two piles. Then take the good pile and do it again till I get it down to one or two, then mark which call it worked on. I have one go to striker that sounds great on all of them and another that almost does. One is flared and the other rounded. I tend to work flared better but they both work. I have two that don't work for beans, but I keep them because they may play on my next pot.
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