As the title says .... what are your thoughts on call storage in the off season ... mouthcalls...pots... any wooden call...
Thnx
I store all my stuff in plastic bulk ammo cans in my basement
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Many of my calls & accessories are in an Ol Tom Treasure Chest that is then kept inside a airtight plastic bin. Mouthcalls are cleaned and kept in the refrigerator. Special calls or "Collectibles" are in a corner glass cabinet.
Mouth Diaphragms washed off with water, dried and place in the refrigerator. Pot call and box calls pleaced in big plastic tub with other turkey hunting gear. Trumpets stay next to where I sit, I play them all year trying to become better.
Ralph
Mouth calls in refrigerator in mouth wash solution, all box, push pin, slates, etc. in safe with firearms in controlled humidity.
I just keep playing them.
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Diaphram calls are soaked for 10 minutes in Listerine Cool Mint then dried and put back in refrigerator. Ive known more turkey hunters that didnt do anything too their mouth calls only to use them the next year and get a bad sore throat those germs will get you all the time. The pot calls and such get a good cleaning and put away till the next season.
Do y'all wash and dry your mouth calls after every hunt? I read that someone was doing that, but mouth washing then drying with toothpicks between reeds is kind of a hassle.
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Quote from: Lone Star Eastern on May 02, 2023, 11:46:30 AM
Do y'all wash and dry your mouth calls after every hunt? I read that someone was doing that, but mouth washing then drying with toothpicks between reeds is kind of a hassle.
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I do, after they dry I use a little talcum powder between the latex to keep them from sticking together. That's how I store them after season and in the refrigerator.
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I am not a big diaphragm call user so I just throw them away and order new. Everything else goes into a small plastic box and onto a shelf.
Who puts calls up after the season, I'm just getting started playing them... LOL... I do store some of my calls in plastic totes and i use those cheap koozie for my pot calls etc... I use those Silic packs in the containers also... You can buy those off Amazon ....
Mouth calls in the fridge, others in a curio cabinet. Custom made turkey calls are folk art show them off!
They are generally pretty good stored where humidity is normal and calls are dry. Nothing too special
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Bookshelf
All calls well except mouth calls, go into 2 very large curio cabinets to house the following:.
Box- a bunch Pot calls -a bunch
Trumpet calls. 20+ Locater.
Push pin calls. Hooty who
Scratch boxes. 5 Hawk
Crow calls. Peacock
Wingbone
There are filled with everything that has to go with the Wild turkey. I have ALL OF the decanters Wild Turkey, Books and books!!!
Even have a collection of old Prince Albert tobacco cans
Numerous knives such as Vietnam bayonet
German bayonet from WWII, CASE made a limited edition Louisiana Game Warden knife
About 20 years of NWTF knives of the year
I even have a glass bottle shaped like a wild turkey that came from Avon, you guessed it Wild turkey cologne, it was my PawPaws &e passed in 1977, inside the bottle has some left and it smells great!!!!
But as far as my turkey hunting clothes, they go in big places tubs with lids. Vests as well.
Easy access to all my calls whenever I need to calm down a little bit.
Have a good one, Bo
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That's a collection .....
My pots get stored in koozies, each koozie for the call is labeled with makers name, wood/material, surface/sound board, and the date of purchase from maker or secondhand. If I kill a turkey with the pot I mark the date and location of the kill on back of the label on the koozie and that's where that call lives after that. I have several 3-tier Rubbermaid drawer systems that stack up. Each drawer is labeled with a call makers name and holds up to 18 pots per drawer. Makes it easy to pull calls out in the off season and play them without having to go digging through what you may be wanting to play, especially calls that have killed and don't see the field again for me, they get to shine in the off season and remind me why they proved to be deadly. Some of my best pots are "retired" but they still get played and bring a smile to my face when I do.
The boxes and trumpets are in a display/curio cabinet where they can be stored in like groups and also taken out for play any time of year easily.
In the winter when my furnace is running, I keep a humidifier in my call room. The only down side to the humidifier is it greatly increases the amount of dust in the room, but it also has kept calls from popping for the last three years when before that I was losing a few glass calls every winter.