Not sure how your guys do it. I try but I feel so bad for those calls just sitting there lifeless. Wanting so bad to sign for a crowd but limited to the poorly lit practice rooms. There highlight of there life is getting that front row seat until a prettier lookin or talkin gal comes along.
I have tried but and up getting rid of calls I have no time for. I feel I neglect them and send them to happier pastures and woods.
Am I crazy or are there others out there?
I agree. I want my calls to be the front row of a dirtnap. That does it for me. But also I know some will be for just looking at. So we can just keep tuening them aand let people use them how they want. Your calls are awesome to look at and cant blame no one who doesnt hunt with them.
Shane
I am just wondering if there are others that have a hard time collecting.
I try but after 1 yr of no or little use I find myself needing to get rid of it. I an envious of the collections some have but I find everytime I start I end up liquidating.
Am I the only 1 who has a commitment problem with turkey calls?
I have a hard time collecting as well. My reason's due do being broke most of the time though. There are some absolutely goregious, exquisite, pieces of craftsmanship out there. And I guess it's just like anything else. A person would not go out and buy some beautifully engraved truly custom rifle for thousands of dollars only to take it out into the woods to risk something damaging the hard work and craftsmanship that was put into making that gun worth as much as they paid for it. No, instead they would put that one on display in a nice cabinet and buy something less extravigant. I understand where you're coming from though. At the end of the day a game call or a gun or a vehicle or a (insert whatever here), no matter how extravagent, detailed, or pleasing to the eye, it started out as being made for a purpose.
I got to tell ya, I collect calls from other callmakers because I enjoy seeing their passion expressed in their work. I know each one of my calls there is a piece of me in it, and so is the case with so many callmakers out there, those who have been making for decades and those who have been in it a week....each one is priceless to me.
I guess that is why I keep them, I won't carry one out, not that they would not work, but I respect their personal value that much. Now, I have calls that were massed produced, lynch, thomas, olt...etc., but they don't hold that "magic" these handcrafted callers do, and they go out every once in awhile, but just like "mads" caller I got, it is in my collection because I enjoy his time and effort he put into it. I reckon, I wil keep collecting callers, never get tired of it...
I'm on the fence on this subject, which is y I have yet to purchase a custom pot call. I look at it like this, they took the time and craftsmanship to make it to the best of their ability to call in turkeys, and as beautiful as they may be, thats their purpose, but I also dont wanna take something that gorgeous out in the woods either. But, in respect for the call maker, it would be hard not to at least call one bird in with it. lol I have a dilema
Pappy maybe I just need to socialize more. I would think if I had face to face some calls would have more meaning.
Now I have some out there that I would hope could find there way to the bottom of a swamp. :P I am embarrassed what I have made in the past, even though it was my heart and soul at the time.
I`ve been collecting for several yrs. now and 90% of my calls have been in my vest. If your selling I`m always interested!!! ;D
i dont have a call that i wont carry to the woods
You can always send them to me and I will show them love. :biggringift:
Quote from: cannonball on April 13, 2011, 09:08:10 PM
You can always send them to me and I will show them love. :biggringift:
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X2!... Madarchery... Have you cruised the call collector thread below and checked out the little party we throw over there every day?... Call collecting can be addictive (true), but it's also a lot of fun and you get to learn so much regarding call makers, regions, woods and materials...not to mention history and value......did I mention it's a lot of fun? :toothy12:
I blame NCBigShot for my addiction. :TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny:
I have talked to some great call makers over the few years that I have been collecting although I had no intention of starting a collection. Made some good friends and am having a ball. Look at it this way, there are MUCH worse things that you could spend your money on and I have been there also. Now my biggest vice is custom turkey calls.
NCbigshot. I have. And I love learning about them. Then I want them. So I try to start up another collection. Then I revert back and get rid of them. Seems in my core I can't have unused clutter. Only items I keep are those with really special meaning. Not just because its a great item and looks pretty.
I really want to change. Maybe I should lock them up out of sight. Then I would not have the urge to clean up :-\
Well it seems I am an odd duck on this forum :TooFunny:
I want to display them all with the "special" ones where I can get to them easily and give them a run every now and then. I even keep the ones that don't sound so good.
Now I have some out there that I would hope could find there way to the bottom of a swamp. I am embarrassed what I have made in the past, even though it was my heart and soul at the time.
I do not know a callmaker that cannot repeat this statement, but you know what....I believe it has a lot to do with collecting, the progress of the callmaker, is a fact that can be backed up by their calls as he or she continues to make calls...you should see my first duck call...much less hear it...and my first couple pot calls well let's put it this way.....there wasn't any turkeys standing in line to reply...it is all about watching the callmaker grow into their place in the callmaking world.
Like NC....it is all a learning process, for the collector and the callmaker...
Quote from: West Augusta on April 14, 2011, 08:32:28 AM
I blame NCBigShot for my addiction. :TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny:
....Maybe I need to put "caution tape" around my posts.... :TooFunny:
..Pappy, you're 100% spot-on... How else would a call maker evolve without experimentation?...and for the collector, these "experimental" calls sometimes are the most treasured... I have some of your early calls, Pappy.... They enjoy good company with many other call maker's works in my cabinet. :)
NC I hope you got 'em in brown paper bags...lol..lol
I started out looking for a better mouse trap, then over time I realized
that I had a collection, didn't plan to be a collector. I remember my first
Larmar Williams box. I bought it from a guy and figured I would sell it once
I got one from Lamar, now five calls later I still can't part with that first box
or any other call for that matter.
I generally hunt with my calls or Dad's, but will pull a call off the shelf
occasionally. Have I been blessed or cursed?
Dewey
I have a fairly decent collection, most of which I obtained with trades with fellow callmakers. Kind of like Mr. Jack expressed, I like to see what others put into their work and I am proud to display them
Quote from: bowhunter84 on April 13, 2011, 09:06:33 PM
i dont have a call that i wont carry to the woods
me either.....i have worn the signatures off some of my most precious calls ....
Quote from: Trevor2 on April 13, 2011, 07:20:47 PM
I'm on the fence on this subject, which is y I have yet to purchase a custom pot call. I look at it like this, they took the time and craftsmanship to make it to the best of their ability to call in turkeys, and as beautiful as they may be, thats their purpose, but I also dont wanna take something that gorgeous out in the woods either. But, in respect for the call maker, it would be hard not to at least call one bird in with it. lol I have a dilema
I guarantee you that there is not a call maker on this board that would make you a call and feel any disrespect if you put it on the shelf or if you drop it crossing a creek trying to kill a big gobbler.
Quote from: madarchery on April 14, 2011, 09:09:24 AM
NCbigshot. I have. And I love learning about them. Then I want them. So I try to start up another collection. Then I revert back and get rid of them. Seems in my core I can't have unused clutter. Only items I keep are those with really special meaning. Not just because its a great item and looks pretty.
I really want to change. Maybe I should lock them up out of sight. Then I would not have the urge to clean up :-\
Well it seems I am an odd duck on this forum :TooFunny:
I don't think you are you buy it enjoy it. and when you have finished you send it on to another to enjoy. so you can enjoy another.
Call collection is just a man's equalization answer to the wifes shoe and dress shopping, the only difference is our investment still has value years later. :laugh: