We talk All the time about this call and that but What is Your ABSOLUTE Most Faithful Call that will get the Job done day in and day out? I don't want anyone to divulge any secrets (unless you want LOL). Just comment on that Most Faithful call that you can depend on Most Days?? Believe it or not, Mine is the Ol Betsy. A plastic $15 slate pot combined with a laminated, Jeff's Frogwood or Heavy Dymondwood striker. I'm not sure what it is about this call but I have struck more birds, called birds close with this call and killed more birds with it then all my other calls combined. Yes, I do use it often but I also utilize other pots, mouth calls and boxes but it is Ole Faithful when it comes to getting the job done. It has been to Florida, Kansas, South Dakota, Wisconsin and my home state of NC and it hardly ever let's me down.
Mouth call
Knight and Hale Lonesome Hen.
Probably Cody world class slate
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Tough one... Gooserbat OsS diaphragm.
Primos true double mouth call, and Primos box cutter which is no longer available. Production calls that get the job done!!
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Another mouth call man here. Rarely use anything else.
Woodhaven's classic cherry crystal. I've struck more birds with that call than any other.
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Paul's Call, Prestige box, Black Walnut over Zebrawood
Holloran crystal mistress is my go to
Lynch box
Jim Shelley ceramic in a cherry pot.. It's one of Jim's older ceramic calls ....
Tom osmer acrylic tube call. Woodhaven vision crystal with Bill lyman diamond wood stricker.
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Hand scratching in the leaves
Scratchin leaves, combined with soft talk from my Buice Yelper have proven extremely deadly for me, both Spring and Fall. ;)
Del Crow special mouth call..batwing cut will leave it at that
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Tom Teasers Creamator mouth call.
Leaves is a good one too.
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Lohman pump action yelper or the MAD egg.
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Delrin green death trumpet.
Quote from: Happy on May 30, 2022, 06:04:29 PM
Lohman pump action yelper or the MAD egg.
I was going to remind you no humor allowed in anymore threads, but then I realized you're serious.
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Quote from: Happy on May 30, 2022, 06:04:29 PM
Lohman pump action yelper or the MAD egg.
I was going to remind you no humor allowed in anymore threads, but then I realized your serious.
Don't get his temper flared up,
at least he smiled in the turkey pics, you can tell the covid toilet paper shortage is over
You should know by now I am always serious. I am looking for some replacement reeds for the yelper though. I got a little too carried away on a fly down cackle and blew my last set out. I did try to smile a little crow but coukd still use some TP to stockpile. I have always struggled with that part on pitcher takin since I was little. Guess that serious face is gonna come in handy now that jokes and having fun are out.
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Mouth call to get them started then light pillow talk with a slate and scratching some leaves.
Quaker Boy "Finisher" single slate. Softest and sweetest sounding call I've ever used. Tree yelps and clucks like no other. Had mine since '98. So simple yet so deadly.
Billy White Hustlin' Hen...
I've been yelping them up with a ghost cut type mouth call way before they where named " ghost cut " .
My go to for sure .
But when I want to set up and Yelp one up as a gentleman should ? The old tube yelper gets the honors .
Some of you fellas get what I mean ,, most probably won't .
Billy White Hussein Hen Purple Heart /walnut.
Snodgrass long box.
Quote from: Happy on May 30, 2022, 06:39:16 PM
You should know by now I am always serious. I am looking for some replacement reeds for the yelper though. I got a little too carried away on a fly down cackle and blew my last set out. I did try to smile a little crow but coukd still use some TP to stockpile. I have always struggled with that part on pitcher takin since I was little. Guess that serious face is gonna come in handy now that jokes and having fun are out.
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It's easier to smile when you know your sitting on a big stockpile of TP,
I'm going to have to work on my serious face I guess.
wingbone call is my number 1 call
Trumpet for sure
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Halloran Crystal Mistress, Blodget double trouble. Any mouth call I get dialed in each spring, always changes, a friend of mine makes them for me.
Starting to really like a wing bone, I made a bunch this year and killed two birds with the first one I ever made!
SK Pushpin
A 3 reed modified ghost cut that I make
An OLD M.A.D "Shippwreck" mouth call. Could be 15 yrs old..maybe older. It lives in fridge and currently only comes out when one gets onery. I would hate to guess how many I have called to a gun with it. I've thought about buying stuff to replicate it and probably better before long.
Last few years its been a trumpet. Before that it was always a mouth call.
Battey trumpet
tube call
I don't know if i have one specific call i have absolute faith in, but my K&H hammer slate
would be close, followed by a Hooks tube. I had a HS strut mouth call years ago that i modified
with a cut that was my hands down best call, but sadly it bit the dust a long time ago, and i moved on to
other types of calls. I built a wing bone this year, and have been practicing, so i hope that it will become
that call.
Primos mouth call
Zach Farmer Woodwind
I guess that would have to be the call or calls that I never leave home without........
Gooserbat diaphragm
Hally Caller Professional Series slate over glass
I always, ALWAYS have a box call with me. But that could be any one of a hundred or so that I have absolute faith in. All depends on which one I happened to pull out that day.
Don't use it much anymore. To busy with customs calls, wing bones and etc... But I never leave home with out my original Grand Old Master Turkey box call.
I really struggle getting gobblers to come that last 20-30 yards but the calls I consistently get the best responses to are my Paul Hicks Red Slate with Neal Hermann Dymondwood Striker and Darin Dawkins Stoned Aluminum in the plastic pot.
Crystal Mistress
The squealing hen and the acorn cruncher.
Mouth call, I only carry 3. Del Crow " Wolverine Special" could be a custom but its his blue and yellow split V. Gooserbat BGS and a Woodhaven Green Hornet
So many Calls and so little time...but I do have a Bill Lyman Rutland Dymondwood Striker that I bought off this site that I know I am at least the third member to own. She has a permanent roost spot now and will absolutely run any surface/flavor you set her to, well enough to hunt in the morning.
Quote from: 310 gauge on June 01, 2022, 01:15:17 PM
So many Calls and so little time...but I do have a Bill Lyman Rutland Dymondwood Striker that I bought off this site that I know I am at least the third member to own. She has a permanent roost spot now and will absolutely run any surface/flavor you set her to, well enough to hunt in the morning.
I think you might have gotten that striker from me, hahahaha!!
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My go to call is the call I make to my therapist after the season ends and before the next!
I'm primarily a mouth call guy and I'll carry rotating variety throughout the year(s) but two calls I never leave at home are a pinhoti batwing and houndstooth country girl.
Buice Osage trumpet
^^^^That's a helluva call! #3 or #4 mouthpiece for me.
Hahaha!!!! Terry you know you caught me red handed on this one! Yep, I 'm married up to her but I'll tell you what. If you got anymore of her Sisters at home I'll change my religion and marry them too!!!
Been a long time since I didn't have a Hooks Executioner II in my mouth call pouch. It's not the only one I use, but it's been pretty good for me over several seasons.
I change pot calls out through the season. Whatever sounds good to me at the time, and that changes.
The Answer is
My CODY Slate!!
MK M GOBL
Sappy lignum x trumpet.
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Mouth call. Couldn't think of the last time I killed a bird using anything else. I've been trying to make myself use a trumpet but I just have so much faith in a mouth call it's hard for me to switch it up
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Primos "True Double" and "True Triple" mouth calls. Not all but most of the gobblers I have bagged over the years were with these two calls. It has been a while since I called one in with anything but a mouth call.
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Primos "True Double" and "True Triple" mouth calls. Not all but most of the gobblers I have bagged over the years were with these two calls. It has been a while since I called one in with anything but a mouth call.
I love the true double, but the triple is a mouth full!!
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Quote from: TerryLNanny on May 30, 2022, 03:34:29 PM
Primos true double mouth call, and Primos box cutter which is no longer available. Production calls that get the job done!!
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I still use my Primos Box Cutter and most of my birds are from this call. Great sound for a mass produced call.
twyatt ceramic in walnut with a Lyman hickory striker has just absolutely become the combo for me. Was really hard on turkeys this spring.
Jim Shelley aluminum or Cody world class slate. I'm no calling expert, but these calls will bring them in.
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Pot call.
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Harrison hooter
Mouth call then purring real soft with a slate and rustling some leaves.
Ole Yeller slatek. Beat up and rough looking but plain old works!
I have an accumulation of box calls. A sawn and glued sycamore short box by Daryl Helm has been my "ace in the hole" for the past 15-20 years. I think I paid 20 bucks for it. I have boxes I paid 10+ times that amount and they are treasured calls but so is this proven killer. It sounds a bit different, maybe some would think it's flawed. But the gobblers don't.
Quote from: Zobo on August 02, 2022, 08:22:00 PM
I have an accumulation of box calls. A sawn and glued sycamore short box by Daryl Helm has been my "ace in the hole" for the past 15-20 years. I think I paid 20 bucks for it. I have boxes I paid 10+ times that amount and they are treasured calls but so is this proven killer. It sounds a bit different, maybe some would think it's flawed. But the gobblers don't.
This is what I wanted to hear from you guys! It seems we spend TONS of money on calls and think we have a KILLER but.... It seems the calls that have a terrible or different sound, seem to get the job done! We listen to a particular call and say that sounds Good but we take it to the woods and we get mixed reviews from the Quarry. It's good to hear each of us have a particular call that gets the job done and we have GREAT confidence in!!!
Trumpet and my titanium pot with a dymondwood striker.
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Mouth call and scratching in leaves, but most importantly, knowing when to not call. My personal preference for a call has been either Houndstooth or Legacy.
Hot Hen slate
Probably my EZ Jordan or Nathan Taylor purple slate.
A good friend of mine told me to take 2 of my best push pins and when the Tom's won't cooperate, hit them with the fighting purr with the 2 push pin's. I can honestly say that this absolutely worked last spring, I have complete faith in this set-up.....be well....
My H.S 360SL slate call has the most notches, but I've probably turned more and had them come in using a Boat Paddle long box.
Jim
Almost ashamed to admit this LOL... not very good on a mouth call- my fault; just won't practice enough bc I struggle with the fit I guess... can call with my natural voice softly well enough to have called several over the years... my go to? A Primos box called a Graphite Prospector (????). Found it in a Mom n Pop gas station/ bait shop/outdoor store YEARS ago covered in dust ... got home, played it and thought,"Nahh". Set on a shelf several years (seasoning I guess), then one day I played it again and thought," I believe that will hunt...". Been in my vest ever since... I have bought several custom boxes lately, they are all good and probably sound better but that little box just fits my hand...
Also, I'll throw some Luv to the Woodhaven Cherry Classic Slate too... it seems to step up once or twice a season itself.
Quote from: Tom007 on August 04, 2022, 05:41:32 PM
A good friend of mine told me to take 2 of my best push pins and when the Tom's won't cooperate, hit them with the fighting purr with the 2 push pin's. I can honestly say that this absolutely worked last spring, I have complete faith in this set-up.....be well....
I've had this work a few time especially early season in MS
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Was a Hustlin Hen at one time, has been a Mabry box or walnut slate at times. But for about a half decade if he's GOT to die its a Ricky Padgett Persimmon slate over glass he hears last.
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Quote from: Tom007 on August 04, 2022, 05:41:32 PM
A good friend of mine told me to take 2 of my best push pins and when the Tom's won't cooperate, hit them with the fighting purr with the 2 push pin's. I can honestly say that this absolutely worked last spring, I have complete faith in this set-up.....be well....
I've had this work a few time especially early season in MS
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Yea, it seems to rile them up real quick especially when there are multiple Tom's....
I run a couple of diaphrams that I like, but calls don't matter to me. I can take a 50 year old Lynch and do the exact same thing as a slate/crystal/glass... really does not matter. It is in the inflection in the call and the rhythm/volume of the hunter.
I don't like to brag on my unique talent, but on any given day I can make the best of calls sound bad. It's a gift I discovered early in my turkey hunting career. I can run a call for weeks on end before season, and sometimes during season before one day I sound like a rusty gate hinge. It happens sporadically, most days it's just one call, some days it is every call I own.
So it makes it real hard to pick one I have absolute faith in because, like a roadhouse girlfriend, they will turn on you when you least expect it.
My lonzo pot is my go to for locating
Quote from: Tail Feathers on August 07, 2022, 09:03:25 PM
I don't like to brag on my unique talent, but on any given day I can make the best of calls sound bad. It's a gift I discovered early in my turkey hunting career. I can run a call for weeks on end before season, and sometimes during season before one day I sound like a rusty gate hinge. It happens sporadically, most days it's just one call, some days it is every call I own.
So it makes it real hard to pick one I have absolute faith in because, like a roadhouse girlfriend, they will turn on you when you least expect it.
I think you are a lot better than you think.......Turkey vocabulary is not perfect either. I've heard some real bad sounding hens walk a big Tom away from me.......
Original Primos limbhanger mouth yelper. Soft and subtle "wits" combined with 2 and 3 note clean front end yelps has fooled a truck load of wise Longbeards for me.
I have a couple of slates that have been killers, one is a Lonnie Sneed hot hen, and the other from a local pastor (Follow the Call turkey calls). Last season I killed two gobs using a Shannon Kelly push pin. It will be in my pocket from now on.
Brad roberts poplar glass over glass. Always seems to strike one when my other calls haven't.
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hooks manipulator and Tim Sanford slate over glass have produced the best for me
KP Cocobolo Trumpet works really good for me.
Any call that makes it to my vest I have absolute faith in.
Quote from: Tail Feathers on August 07, 2022, 09:03:25 PM
I don't like to brag on my unique talent, but on any given day I can make the best of calls sound bad. It's a gift I discovered early in my turkey hunting career. I can run a call for weeks on end before season, and sometimes during season before one day I sound like a rusty gate hinge. It happens sporadically, most days it's just one call, some days it is every call I own.
So it makes it real hard to pick one I have absolute faith in because, like a roadhouse girlfriend, they will turn on you when you least expect it.
You and me both buddy, definitely a talent I wish didn't rare it's ugly head at times ????
Sneed Hot Hen slate
Quote from: EZ on August 14, 2022, 09:40:47 AM
Any call that makes it to my vest I have absolute faith in.
Your wingbones and a Jeff Erb trumpet are getting pretty hard for me to leave at home!!! My youngest is loving his wingbone also. He had a great season with it.
Sneed outlaw hen green glass
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If someone could make a Call that replicates " Thunder" perfectly-- that would be a best seller.
Everyone knows or maybe not- that ALL Gobblers Gobble to Thunder- not just the ones at the Top of the Pecking order.
I could take a huge Aluminum Panel out with me and Shake that- but that is not feasible. I might have given someone here an idea though...
To go with my above post- perhaps just play- " Thunder" on your Smartphone. Not much Volume though.
Trumpet
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1 Enticer Absolute Aluminum
2 Olin Humphries Laminated Ceramic
For this old turkey hunter, nothing never beat my old Leon's callers, like most, I have played the field in different styles. MY $5.00 Leon's, has been my go to caller for 55 years.
Quote from: Herb McClure on August 30, 2022, 09:45:25 AM
For this old turkey hunter, nothing never beat my old Leon's callers, like most, I have played the field in different styles. MY $5.00 Leon's, has been my go to caller for 55 years.
And it served you well old friend.