What call in vest has killed the most birds for you in the last few years? Mine would be Buster persimmon red slate or Dawkins plastic grey slate. Most responses probably Brad Roberts black line persimmon glass.
Toss up between a slate call my neighbor made me and a Hooks Executioner mouth call. Usually 1 of those 2 calls is the death of a Tom.
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Last few years Lonzo's black aluminum acrylic pot!
Quote from: 3bailey3 on February 27, 2024, 04:18:23 PM
Last few years Lonzo's black aluminum acrylic pot!
Yep fine call mine is with me a lot during the season.
Gooserbat diaphragm. Hands down.
I really don't have a preference....
As long as it's a longbox....
And the call body is made of cedar, or butternut, or poplar.......
And has a cedar lid.....
;D
Lewis Stowe Lignum Vitae and a Steve Mann Hybrid Hen of Walnut and Butternut. Few years back I had to make myself leave a Ricky Padgett Persimmon slate at the house, nothing else was getting kills. He'll even tell you I'd call him with a dead turkey and say I hated him and the call for what they were doing to other calls.
2006 osage double slate made by Ralph Chandler.
Homemade trumpet yelper, Gobbler Down slate and mouth call.
Mark Prudhomme trumpet.
Dont know the name of the Pot call but its a Pennsylvania gray slate and it clucks and yelps and whines just great it,s the first call to go in my vest. :you_rock:
Snodgrass mini-boat.
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Back in my early years it was a homemade snuff can and a piece of slate glued into a turtle shell with corncob cedar striker
Next was production calls .. Lohman Thunder Dome slate, Quaker boy 2 face pot call, push pin, Lynch box and HS Strut box
Now present time: I carry the first ceramic call i ever bought and that's a Jim Shelley ceramic in a cherry pot. along with custom boxes, pot calls and trumpets ... That ceramic has called and killed a lot of gobblers over the years.
It sure has been an exciting ride through the years chasing these gobblers ...
I also have a draw full of production calls that didn't meet the grade... LOL...
So it has been a progression of calls ...throughout the years. No way i could just say one ...
First call out is a Jimmy Schaffer black walnut pot with grey slate over grey slate and either a JLH frogwood, bullfrog, heavy cedar or heavy hickory striker.
Primos "True" Double and "True" Triple. I have used these mouth calls for a long time.
This snakewood over spalted tamarind short box by Jody Harrison is a beauty and field proven the last couple of years
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Quote from: callmakerman on February 27, 2024, 06:23:18 PM
2006 osage double slate made by Ralph Chandler.
Fantastic call!!
Roger Parks Double Spur has be one my go to call the last couple of years along with a Jim Chamberlin trough call.
Lonzo goncalo alves/glass has been my go to! It's retired now. His acrylic crystal over carbon is special. The trumpet bug has bitten me though, and I have several vying for the new favorite...
Jay "Birdman" Burnworth wingbone
Buster Osage, Glass over Slate
Sadler McGraw ghost cut and Cody World Class.
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Wingbone or Jordan (50/50) and a Lonnie Sneed Hot Hen slate.
Crystal mistress
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Paul hicks glass in a walnut pot and a woodhaven ninja ghost has been my 2 top performers for me
OG PP
Hopefully this one!
Travis Wyatt slate/slate has been darn deadly the last three years. Before that was a glass/slate he made as well. There was one season where 7 birds heard that call on their way to a ride in the truck.
Bill Lyman Slate with snakewood striker. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240312/108736383a32f32aeaf952c2b58c28e1.jpg)
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Lonnie Mabry walnut slate
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Seems those grey slates are right up there. Mine is a $15 grey slate in a plastic pot, with a Frog wood striker. Two of my hunting buddies use the same call and they have Great success with them as well.
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Lonnie Mabry walnut slate
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That's about what my long box from Lonnie looks like. Not most durable finish haha. It sounds good though.
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Tom osmer tube call. Mike lapp longbox, woodhaven modified cutter diaphragm.
At first it was a Primos Power Crystal, the one with a strutting Tom on it. After that it has been an Ol Yeller in a walnut pot form K&H. Last year, started laying em out with Preacherman red slate pot call. Got others I will try this year, but those have been deadly