To start this years UNICOI trip got thrown sideways due to the flu hitting our house and putting myself and my son into bad shape! However with great friends like Sixbird and Clardh not all was lost! I called Marlin early last week and asked him to put a few calls back for me preferably a servicberry longbox. When Sixbird and Clardh arrived at UNICOI they ran the ones he had stuffed back and sent me soundfiles to help aid in my decision and this is what I ended up with. This beauty is Serviceberry over Walnut and she is a certified player. I can't say thank you enough to Marlin, Glenn, and Doug! I can't wait to get this thing out this spring.
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That's a beauty.
Thanks Mr. Mike! Your soundfile certainly played its part too. The servicberry is everything and more than I excepted!
Very nice I love the one I just got!
Awesome! :drool:
I don't really hunt with a box call, but I love to build them and play them.... so I sat around Marlin''s table while guys were running his boxes, man they all sounded awesome, so I'm sure this one is a sweet talker too...congrats!
Quote from: Coop1082 on January 20, 2018, 12:18:07 PM
Thanks Mr. Mike! Your soundfile certainly played its part too. The servicberry is everything and more than I excepted!
Glad I could help. Spent a lot of time around Marlin's table.
Quote from: gergg on January 20, 2018, 04:03:05 PM
I don't really hunt with a box call, but I love to build them and play them.... so I sat around Marlin''s table while guys were running his boxes, man they all sounded awesome, so I'm sure this one is a sweet talker too...congrats!
Can I ask why you don't use a box call? Are you a trumpet-only kinda guy? The vast majority of the birds I've called in answered a box first, then got sweet talked with pot, mouth, and scratching the rest of the way in.
Congrats Nick. :icon_thumright:
Quote from: Cut N Run on January 20, 2018, 07:49:56 PM
Quote from: gergg on January 20, 2018, 04:03:05 PM
I don't really hunt with a box call, but I love to build them and play them.... so I sat around Marlin''s table while guys were running his boxes, man they all sounded awesome, so I'm sure this one is a sweet talker too...congrats!
Can I ask why you don't use a box call? Are you a trumpet-only kinda guy? The vast majority of the birds I've called in answered a box first, then got sweet talked with pot, mouth, and scratching the rest of the way in.
Just a personal thing, I have killed birds with box calls, they sound awesome, I just prefer other "instruments"....Like guys in a band, some like to play guitar, drums, bass, etc....
Quote from: gergg on January 20, 2018, 04:03:05 PM
I don't really hunt with a box call, but I love to build them and play them.... so I sat around Marlin''s table while guys were running his boxes, man they all sounded awesome, so I'm sure this one is a sweet talker too...congrats!
Missed you at UNICOI. Things got hectic before we left and I didn't know how to get in touch after we were there...Darn! Happened with a couple of people...
Congrats! That's a fine call!
Quote from: sixbird on January 20, 2018, 10:14:37 PM
Quote from: gergg on January 20, 2018, 04:03:05 PM
I don't really hunt with a box call, but I love to build them and play them.... so I sat around Marlin''s table while guys were running his boxes, man they all sounded awesome, so I'm sure this one is a sweet talker too...congrats!
Missed you at UNICOI. Things got hectic before we left and I didn't know how to get in touch after we were there...Darn! Happened with a couple of people...
Should be able to meet up next year....best of luck chasing them this year!
Quote from: gergg on January 21, 2018, 09:27:51 AM
Quote from: sixbird on January 20, 2018, 10:14:37 PM
Quote from: gergg on January 20, 2018, 04:03:05 PM
I don't really hunt with a box call, but I love to build them and play them.... so I sat around Marlin''s table while guys were running his boxes, man they all sounded awesome, so I'm sure this one is a sweet talker too...congrats!
Missed you at UNICOI. Things got hectic before we left and I didn't know how to get in touch after we were there...Darn! Happened with a couple of people...
Should be able to meet up next year....best of luck chasing them this year!
Hopefully that'll happen. I was looking forward to hearing that double chamber scratcher...
An awesome lookin call by one of the best ! :icon_thumright:
Quote from: sixbird on January 25, 2018, 07:44:14 PM
Quote from: gergg on January 21, 2018, 09:27:51 AM
Quote from: sixbird on January 20, 2018, 10:14:37 PM
Quote from: gergg on January 20, 2018, 04:03:05 PM
I don't really hunt with a box call, but I love to build them and play them.... so I sat around Marlin''s table while guys were running his boxes, man they all sounded awesome, so I'm sure this one is a sweet talker too...congrats!
Missed you at UNICOI. Things got hectic before we left and I didn't know how to get in touch after we were there...Darn! Happened with a couple of people...
Should be able to meet up next year....best of luck chasing them this year!
Hopefully that'll happen. I was looking forward to hearing that double chamber scratcher...
I built a few of them, they were so dang loud and I like to call softly so I threw them in my wood stove....lol. I have a few other ideas to tone them down a bit and will mess with that this spring.
Quote from: gergg on January 25, 2018, 08:36:29 PM
Quote from: sixbird on January 25, 2018, 07:44:14 PM
Quote from: gergg on January 21, 2018, 09:27:51 AM
Quote from: sixbird on January 20, 2018, 10:14:37 PM
Quote from: gergg on January 20, 2018, 04:03:05 PM
I don't really hunt with a box call, but I love to build them and play them.... so I sat around Marlin''s table while guys were running his boxes, man they all sounded awesome, so I'm sure this one is a sweet talker too...congrats!
Missed you at UNICOI. Things got hectic before we left and I didn't know how to get in touch after we were there...Darn! Happened with a couple of people...
Should be able to meet up next year....best of luck chasing them this year!
Hopefully that'll happen. I was looking forward to hearing that double chamber scratcher...
I built a few of them, they were so dang loud and I like to call softly so I threw them in my wood stove....lol. I have a few other ideas to tone them down a bit and will mess with that this spring.
A-A-A-A-H!!! WOODSTOVE!!! WHAT???!!!