What was everyone's most productive call this season?
My Sinclair titanium pot over glass was most productive for me.
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Trumpet and Short Box
My misfit, a Sadler slate and "Judge and Jury"
Mero Trumpet and Pinhoti purple ghost. Had a hot streak of 4 birds in 4 days with my new Seth Hamon trumpet too.
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Easy - when buddy hunting my friend's Holleran slate usually gets the first response. By myself a Moss Double Tone box for long range work. Close in if needed a Knight and Hale Lonesome Hen or a K and H tube.
David Loftis crystal screamer.
Toss up between a Pat Strawser slate and a Woodhaven New Energy mouth call.
A cheap Walmart special box call from Primos.
Gooserbat red slate and a Darryl Helms box
Gooserbat OSS close 2nd Sneed Hot Hen slate
Busters Ceramic with a Neal Herrman snakewood striker.
A older lynch composite slate pot call, knight and Hale push button model 150. Mouth calls from a relatively unknown Ms call maker. Add a Watkins fiddle box to this.
David Halloran Twisted Sister Pot and Halloran Long box!
OG PP's, Cody Fatwood Slate brought them home...
My own green slate over glass in a bubinga pot with a Mike Robare tulipwood striker. Z
Trumpet
Halloran Crystal Mistress, wing bone and a Harrison mouth call.
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Woodhaven Classic Cherry Crystal.
Dawkins long box and Primos limb hanger mouth call
Van Cise PH/maple handled box.
Cody WC slate buice delrin
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Watkin's macassar/butternut box!
Cody Woodsman glass gets em fired up and in range. :OGturkeyhead:
Gooserbat diaphragm
Watkins fiddlebox
Ike Ashby call i brought out of retirement for one last ride.
SS Redheart and Holly scratcher. Call is deadly and prob one of my top calls every spring, Also a SS Redheart and poplar longbox, was real consistent. Mouth calls would be but I kept changing as I was checking effectiveness of the calls so I don't consider that one particular call
About split even between a suction yelper, Jake yelps and gobbling on Tom Osmer tube call and Lightning Strike Alaskan yellow cedar longbox/ Billy Bush Begging Machine
WF Hegler trumpet and EZ wingbone.
Buster rep slate.
Buice 5.5" koa
Most productive was my Inzer trumpet as it was involved in both kills and exclusively on the second.
Trumpet, McGraw diaphragm, and OG pushpin..
Billy Buice Brazilian Rosewood 5-1/2" call with a number 3 mammoth ivory mouthpiece and a Southland Walnut Slate using a hickory striker.
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I almost exclusively use a handful of rag-tag mouth calls that I make myself. They almost invariably get the job done for me and my general attitude is one of..."if they won't respond to my mouth calls, they probably aren't going to respond to anything."
However, twice this spring, I was getting no response with my mouth calls in an area I knew had gobblers close by. On one occasion, a buddy I was with that exclusively uses a box call got a group of gobblers going...and they came right in when I was getting nothing with my calls.
On the second occasion, I switched to a slate-surface pot when I was not getting a response when I also knew there were gobblers nearby...and they immediately started responding...and I eventually got one of them.
Being the "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" sort of guy, I will probably just stick with my mouth calls...but there MIGHT be times when I say to myself..."Maybe you should wise-up and try something different". ...Probably won't listen very often, though... ;D :toothy12:
One I called in on a mouth call. One almost had in till a hen took him away was a mouth call. Numerous hens came in on a box and slate. Thats all folks!