I'm sure this had been asked many times
Before, but here it goes. What call have you
Used to put the most ol toms in the back of
The truck.
Mine has been a Woodhaven Cherry Slate :bible:
Can't say as I have a hands down winner. Called in a bunch with an old power crystal, a mad aluminator and a slew of different diaphrams but I never kept track of how many on every call. Have mainly custom and semi custom calls this year so I guess I am kinda starting over.
Can't give you a particular winner, but it would be diaphragm call of some sort. (Up until last year, I changed types and brands more than socks!). Historically I've been a 90% mouth call, 7% pot call, 3% box. I'm fixin' to change that... lol
I switch up calls a lot from year to year. I think in a single season my best calls have been 5 called in with a houndstooth cherry ceramic in a season and 4 with a SS scratch box
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It's very rare that I use any one call to work a bird start to finish. But over the years there have been two calls that go with me ALL THE TIME and both have witnessed countless slayings:
Hally Caller Deluxe boxcall
A walnut pot slate over glass of my own making
I have 4 calls that never leave my vest, in the past 8-10 years my go to cherry Death Wish, my coffee over walnut Gibson, my Sassy/Cedar short box and my PH over Cherry Teaser. I'll use other calls some days , but those 4 calls are my go to calls.
I've probably killed the majority of mine using a Paul Butski Spring shadow mouth call
Over the past 35 years I have probably killed 90% on diaphragms, the rest on pots. Just got bored with using diaphragms for some reason so I started messing with scratch boxes. I have built a bunch in the shop which is so much fun and the sound coming out of these little things is so realistic I can't put them down.....they are my new favorite and I have been using them on public land with great success over the past several seasons. I love building and tuning the scratchers, so that is surely part of the allure for me.
Quote from: SteelerFan on March 30, 2016, 09:07:06 PM
Can't give you a particular winner, but it would be diaphragm call of some sort. (Up until last year, I changed types and brands more than socks!). Historically I've been a 90% mouth call, 7% pot call, 3% box. I'm fixin' to change that... lol
Same here
Primos True Double mouthcall
I kill turkeys consistently year after year with a box call. I use every other type call and have good success but you can count on an least one bird dying by my boxcall every year.
Like many have already said, I go through mouth calls to fast to keep up but there are a couple calls that I know have made quite a few flop, first and foremost being a Quaker Boy Easy Yelper push pull. I use it as a finisher more than another else. Name says it all, easy one hand operation for those soft subtle clucks and purrs. I've got a Primos Hot Box that has been getting used more and more with positive results. For the first 15 years I used a mouth call 95% of the time.
This beat up, worn out old Lonnie Mabry box call has been the death of many for me. I can't replace in my vest. It's PH and Spanish Cedar. It has always made the sound I want and it rarely let's me down.
QB Grand Slam box call.
Quote from: tha bugman on March 31, 2016, 11:45:15 AM
Primos True Double mouthcall
X2 I have killed more gobblers with this call than any other. :smiley-char092:
I've got several custom calls from guys on here this year, and look forward to using them. Hopefully can replace old trusty with a few of the new ones I got. :bible:
Most of my birds have been started with an old Primos box cutter and finished with an HS split v III. lost the box cutter and replaced it with 3 new boxes this year. Loaned the McKinnis to a buddy of mine as he's never used a box call before. The two that will alternate time in the vest are my SS field grade and a Lonnie Mabry box that I got from a generous member here. I've got 3 Yingling pots that are going to see some serious time this year as well as a halloran Crystal mistress that's going to get its fair share of service. I'll alternate until I find what the bird wants. Not sure who' showing to come out on top but I've got a hunch. Having said that, the diaphragm that I'm relying on the most right now is an HS ma deuce. Hope it continues to produce for me when it's called upon.
#1 would be the call that he responds to on any given day, so I consider all calls riding in my vest to be a #1.
Play all my calls a lot in the pre-season. Often have 2 pots of a same surface in a 2 pot case on me that I play head to head for a few days to determine a favorite. Currently in the vest are a
Hanks zebrawood glass over aluminum, Yingling cast cactuswood copper over glass, Schaffer Atomic 13 anodized aluminum, and a Schaffer laminate slate over glass.
Also carry a Scott Berry short box and Legacy mouth calls.
To ozark870 that's not what I asked, I didn't
Ask what your #1 call was on a given day, I ask
What your #1 call you have used to call in the most
Turkeys over your turkey hunting days.
SS Custom scratcher has fooled many late season gobblers!
Combo of three calls, start the game with either a box or a pot call, then usually finish it with a Knight & Hale half moon cutter mouth call.
between fall and spring birds the old lynch box was the death of many birds ,,,bad thing is killed a bird jumped up side rail broke on it lol ,,, call did well for 20 years ,,, now its either the copper call or titanium bringing them in
I wish I could name some fancy custom call, but my # 1 for almost 20 years has been the Knight & Hale Pocket Puppy pot call. Sla-Tek (ceramic) smaller 3 " version of their Old Yeller pot. Something about the smaller size produces frequencies that drive gobblers nuts and pisses off the hens too. I stepped on and broke my original a few years back so I'm now on number two. Still have a third in reserve as they stopped making them a long time ago. My favorite mouth call is a Primos Cuttin' Hen for clucks and finishing calls.
A mouth call of sorts
I've used a box call that has butternut on the left and sassafras on the right, for the past 13 years, that has seen a kill or two. Not stuck on one particular call, this one just seems to be the one. (With a walnut paddle)
Quote from: Triple Gobble on March 30, 2016, 08:08:14 PM
What call have you
Used to put the most ol toms in the back of
The truck.
My finish call scratch pause scratch scratch
A Gulvas mouthcall......
Primos Heartbreaker boxcall.
It is the only mass produced turkey call I have left in my vest. Seen it many times where it was the only thing that could pry their beaks open and get them to gobble.
Old Adventure slate call with even older Quaker Boy Maple striker. Have lots of other calls but thats my confidence call combo for the past 15 years.
#1 is probably my own Shamanic slate over glass pot call. I make them for the family.
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#2 is my Heirloom (Brian Warner) double barrel slate/glass
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I've never seen anything else like it.
#3 is a barnwood box by Mountainside Game calls.
An honorable mention goes to my Quaker Boy Grand Old Master. It was my go-to call for decades.
I have two that I find in my hands more than others, Brian Mero Trumpet and a Hot Hen pot call.
Well I got to use a pot call I made. First one
I ever made and it helped put 3 dead birds
In the back of the truck today. Maybe I can replace
Old trusty Woodhaven slate with it. :bible:
Dad's Purple Heart over Cedar checkered short box. It's always first out of my vest unless it's raining.
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Always use a mouth call.
I shot over 200 turkeys spring and fall seasons. My number one go to call is a tube call. I hunt all public land in pa,that is pressured tremendously. The tube call is a different sound that turkeys haven't heard that often. It's a harder call to master, but once u do master it, they come strutting on in. Be safe and good hunting.
I constantly rotate calls, I have 2 boxes in my vest at all times, and i own a couple more so every hunt i make i rotate one box in and one box out. i do the same with my mouth calls which i have a plethera of. i only have 2 glass calls so they stay in the vest at all times, and 2 slates so they stay in at all times, but i still rotate use on the slates and glass to. 3 out of the last 4 birds ive killed was with a magnolia game calls glass call. i tend to use that call more than others, but i at least rotate strikers between hunts. overall through out my short life, at one time i only carried a lynch fool proof and 1 mouth call, that's all my father ever carried. most of my birds were called with a lynch.
Blackstone crystal and slate, KP trumpet, many different mouth calls