Ok - I'm sure this has been discussed plenty of times in different threads......but if you had to take only one call in to the woods with you, what would it be?
I've tried many of the big named diaphragms out there, but always find myself coming back to my Quaker Boy Grand Old Master box call. For some reason I just love the way it sounds. I'll keep a mouth call in for when the birds are getting in close, so I won't have to move my hands and can get set up for the shot with minimal movement.
I hadn't tried many of the custom calls on the market, but I recently ordered a couple Hook Executioners and a Hooks Persuader. I'm really impressed by both, especially the Executioner. So much so, I may be able to limit my box calling to a very long distance. So it just made me wonder......what's everyone's favorite?
I don't leave the truck without a Buice trumpet around my neck.
Enticer's "Appalachian Edge" slate.
Thats an easy one for me, SINCE 1966 Leon's turkey caller, has always been with me; and it's still doing the job; like it did 50 years ago.
herb mcclure
Hard to say exactly which because my taste changes from year to year it seems, but it would be a diaphragm call if I could only carry one. Hooks Executioner or Woodhaven Red Wasp most likely.
David Loftis Crystal Screamer.
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:icon_thumright: trumpet :icon_thumright:
Gooserbat Bacon
Primos "True Double" mouth call.
a Woodhaven Red Wasp and a Ghostmaker friction call
A Marlin Watkins butternut/bloodwood fiddle paddle :OGturkeyhead:
My lights out slate over glass, and my Kaiser curly maple with purple heart sound board.
Two I got through this site.
Pappy's Osage and copper pot and Spring Creeks short box walnut
Quote from: Herb McClure on September 29, 2015, 04:17:43 PM
Thats an easy one for me, SINCE 1966 Leon's turkey caller, has always been with me; and it's still doing the job; like it did 50 years ago.
herb mcclure
Welcome to the OG Mr Herb! Glad to see you on here. Are you still my neighbor in Gainesville? I think it's really impressive that ole Leon's caller is still killing mountain gobblers for you after all these years!
Allen
Hi Allen,
Yep, I am still in Gainesville, and tided-down like Last year. Hope to see you at Unicoi, come January 15th & 16th, 2016. As you know that is the Custom Call Maker's weekend.The weekend after the state convention, which is at is at Dillard,GA.
I will give a two-hour program, on the 16th; from 2:PM TO 4:PM. I plan to show a mountain gobbler, which I called in,with Leon's caller, and video him; near the Appalachian Trail, last May, in turkey season on a WMA. Tell all your friends about my seminar, and come and watch this mountain gobbler in full strut; at 15 yards.
herb mcclure
Look forward to meeting you Mr. Herb.
As for my favorite call. I love a hen box and a trumpet....
Slate and my Remington 870
Morgan Caller.
Lonnie Sneed Hot Hen heck of a guy to talk/listen to too.
Gulvas 2.5 reed masters choice
I agree with the OP. Quaker Boy Grand Old Master was the first call I ever bought, and it's called in plenty of toms. No other call has had the success it has had for me. Although I just started getting into the custom call addiction so maybe I'll find a new favorite soon!
My number 1 would be a Primos Ol Betsy slate with a hickory or laminated striker. I've gotten more responses and called in more birds with it than any other call I have. It is raspy and has the deepest ringing tone that really gets Ole 3 toes Gobbling his head off. It has worked on Osceola's, Eastern's, Rio's and Merriam's. A plastic body and slate call that only costs about $15. My 2nd would be a Bloodwood over Black Walnut short box from Spring Creek's Mike Crooks.
3or 4 rred diaphram. Hands down.
Quote from: BillBlanks on September 29, 2015, 11:31:12 AM
Ok - I'm sure this has been discussed plenty of times in different threads......but if you had to take only one call in to the woods with you, what would it be?
I've tried many of the big named diaphragms out there, but always find myself coming back to my Quaker Boy Grand Old Master box call. For some reason I just love the way it sounds. I'll keep a mouth call in for when the birds are getting in close, so I won't have to move my hands and can get set up for the shot with minimal movement.
I hadn't tried many of the custom calls on the market, but I recently ordered a couple Hook Executioners and a Hooks Persuader. I'm really impressed by both, especially the Executioner. So much so, I may be able to limit my box calling to a very long distance. So it just made me wonder......what's everyone's favorite?
Man, that's a hard one. i have many customs calls that i love, most made my guys on here.
But i too have a original Grand Old Master that i don't leave home without.
Glen Marrer Glass over glass pot and either my Black locust or Dymondwood striker.
Probably my Crystal Mistress but my Scott Wilper Pocket Rocket box call would be a close second.
I use a Simpsons custom box call! Works great
:Grand old master :icon_thumright:
Turkey vests have lots of pockets for good reason. Surface I think might be a first consideration or lack thereof. Diaphrams suit the bill in all weather conditions. I like hooks for that. Best, easiest calls I've ever run but I've also got a few friends swear by gooserbat.
Box calls can be really noisy n cumbersome so for me theyd be out if I had only one call. Scratch boxes by SS would def be a one call consideration, as long as it wasn't pouring.
Pots I think any slate is out, they don't run well even humid. Couple pots I like are Atomic 13, Crystal Mistress, Mad Hen, Cornleious glass (something bout that call I love) , and others. If I had to pick only one Id prob have the aluminum. The Atomic 13 last season was brutal on local birds. Got a Dawkins Aluminum on the way. Another great aluminum.
Any air blown type calls like trumpet, tubes, etc are harder for some guys to learn.
See why we need so many pockets?
Also depends on seasonality. Try kee keeing with a slate or cutter type mouth call.
Scott just made me a Devastator with prohp on the bottom and it is a butt kicker!!
LF Frank Cox Trumpet. Silver Ferrule Ironwood with Mastadon Ivory Mouthpiece.
Billy Buice osage trumpet wit a number 3 mouth piece and a richard Hudson snakewood over black limba hen box.
A scratcher made by ss custom calls :funnyturkey: :OGani:
My favorite is actually a combination I use a lot. A Rut N Strut mouth call (bat wing cut) and an SS Custom Calls slate....Good Lord that's a deadly combo!!!!
God Bless
I have a Quaker Boy Boat Paddle that has more than a few notches in it. I just like the way it sounds, evidently the turkeys do too. I'm pretty fond of Tom Teasers Teaser Pleaser for closer in work. I have a Willow Ridge bronze glass over canary pot that also works well.
Jim
If it is a mouthcall I'd say a woodhaven toxic orange. Slate call would be primos's alumislate. Either one of them and I'm good, wonder sometimes why I even own a vest with all them pockets.
Screamin Demon or believe it or not Will Primos mouth call.
Over the years, day in and day out, I've killed more birds using a Quaker Boy Pro triple than any other call, so I'll say that's my favorite. I do like a good slate and a wingbone too.
Bob
One of my slates and a scratch box.
Quote from: silvestris on October 14, 2015, 05:45:52 PM
Morgan Caller.
Copenhagen sent me some hardwood drink coasters and after a week of looking at them, I said, "Ummmm. I grabbed one up and put some blue carpenter's chalk on it and went to work on it with a cheap Woodhaven Purple Heart striker. I have used it almost exclusively the last two years with amazing results. Not loud, but brought the last one from over 200 yards away. They can hear real good.
If it truly came down to one call and one call only, I'd have my CODY World Class Slate Call in my hand.
MK M GOBL
Tony Reynolds Lil' Jenny. He has turned it around.
Quote from: Honolua on January 10, 2016, 09:49:28 PM
Tony Reynolds Lil' Jenny. He has turned it around.
I have been happy to see this. He said he has some new calls coming out. They should be killers.
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If I had to pick one it would be one of these, I love them, they don't make the most sounds but they make some of the best (http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/16/01/11/613db375de3bc93ea6c8d2ebac75cbcd.jpg)
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Just one?
Hooks Jr Executioner II
Wood haven slate with a Purple Heart striker but I have been looking hard at the twisted sister glass call.
If I only had one it would have to be my H.S. Strut, Woodwitch with a Dad's purpleheart striker, it has finished 80% of my birds.
I'm a slate man always have been one of my favorites is a Tom Teaser but I have lot that I use