I have a small, but pretty decent collection of custom calls, most of which I read about on this board. I went hunting today with no success and felt the urge to head down to Academy and the Sportsman's Warehouse to buy a new call to play with. Instant gratification that way.
If all of your most prized and cherished calls went the same place that missing socks go, and you had to run out and buy something or not call, what would you go with?
I ask this out of curiosity and also because I wonder if the production stuff is improving through technology or demand. Thanks for playing.
edited to change custom to production. derp.
What kind of production call you looking for? They come in many shapes and sizes. ;D
Me? I would probably grab the one with the most eye catching packaging. I was more interested in what someone with knowledge of them would get. I like box calls best probably. But I couldn't really tell you why. They just speak to me I guess.
Cody box calls sound good, Primos box cutter, Lynch full proof... I'm guessing these are the types of calls that would be considered production calls.. regardless, they all kill birds.
Thanks Captain, that's the kind of stuff I'm looking for. I used to have a Box Cutter, and liked it, but I gave it to a friend who liked it more than me.
Cane Creek Pro custom slate.
Well you are a pretty good friend to just give away a box cutter just because your buddy liked it more! Can't go wrong with any of those boxes.
Quote from: captin_hook on April 03, 2012, 10:27:30 PM
Well you are a pretty good friend to just give away a box cutter just because your buddy liked it more! Can't go wrong with any of those boxes.
I try to be. He would do the same for me.
HS Strut lil' duece calls are full of turkey and may be the least expensive on the market. A decent wood striker brings them to life. The primos power crystal is a killer. That box cutter is pretty good.
Primos Heartbreaker or Lil Heartbreaker are two nice production box calls. Woodhaven Real Hen is a nice box too.
I still carry my old Primos Power Crystal in my vest.
Woodhaven Real Hen cherry. if I can not get one to gobble with other calls this one will get one out of them.
I like the H.S.Strut ring zone friction calls.
Lynch Fool Proof is a really nice one sider box call.
2nd the power crystal.
LYNCH boxs will kill turkeys hands down!!
I went out tonight and got a power crystal and a little deuce tonight based on advise from here. I like the power crystal, but it took a while to find a striker it liked. It sounded great when I did though. Easy to run too.
I really liked the Lil Deuce. A LOT. I think it will be the first call out of my vest in the morning. It does really good quiet yelps with good turnover. I hate the carbon strikers, but it works better with any quality wood striker. It seems the heavier two piece ones worked better for me. And it gives great purrs, and I suck at purring. The only thing I purr better with is the slate side of my pure death. I would have tried some of the other suggestions, but the only other things they had that were suggested were the usual Primos box calls, and I'm pretty happy with the box calls I have in my vest already.
Thanks to all who gave me their two cents.
Those lil' duece's are straight up killers. They have glass and slate and both are very good.
Thanks. I might have to check out the slate next. At that price there is no reason not too. And they don't take up much room. I bet the slate ones really purr nice.
I've been using the same power crystal for 7 years. Called in a bunch of turkeys with it. The best strikers I have found for it are the laminated primos cutting striker and the woods wise mystic stick.
For a prod. box its hard to beat a Lynch Fool Proof. That's been my brother's go to call for over 30 years with a whole lot of success.
It seems to me that the production calls that are/were good all go out of production.
I have run the HS Strut triple glass and gotten pretty good sounds out of it.
There are smaller makers that produce calls that are so close in price that I would not want to buy the calls at a box store.
Lonnie Sneed, Sneed's Calls, of Princeton, WV is one of them.
Bobby Rison, Yellow Yelpers, Arkansas, is another.
Jimmy Nugent, Country Boy Calls, Dry Prong, La., is another. Yellow Yelper sells his pot calls.
Fourth vote for the Primos Power Crystal, an $18 plastic pot call isn't supposed to kill turkeys as good as it does.
Primos Old Glory Ceramic, Decent sounding call right out of the package and you can play it in a downpour. I've killed a couple Gobblers in the rain when I didn't want to get my other calls wet.
A lot of gobblers have died coming to my primos power crystal, it's a great call for the price. I just bought a lil deuce this year and it sounds really good as well. Wingsupply.com has them on clearance for $5.95 if anyone is interested. http://www.wingsupply.com/categories/game-calls/turkey-calls.html?sort=featured&page=7
Anything Cody! I have a glass pot I love and their southern belle box is very impressive!
I would like to add WillowRidgeCalls death wish cherry bronze glass and Gene Blackshires field grade cherry slate over slate call. Both calls have killer sound and even cost less then alot of production calls. Scoot