I've always worked a box call with the handle (paddle) pointed down. Any advantage to turning the call upside down?
Quote from: notsure on April 28, 2019, 11:04:20 AM
I've always worked a box call with the handle (paddle) pointed down. Any advantage to turning the call upside down?
Personal preference. I often run the left rail handle down and the right rail handle up on long boxes for no particular reason
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I don't know if it's advantageous or not but I've always worked it with the handle up. Seemed more intuitive and easier to adjust pressure for me.
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Handle up... Control the handle right-handed, use the left thumb to control pressure for clucks/purrs or cutting... Switch if I use the other side of the call.
Just recently started with boxes and playing the call "upside down" or handle pointed up at first was odd, but with practice, soon felt much more natural. As others said, so much more control and ability to adjust pressure/volume without hesitation.
Went from not really liking box calls because they sounded like box calls, to finding the turkey in them and loving them.
There's not a wrong way. Just practice and find what works best for you. That's the right way.
Handle up, let the weight of the paddle rest on the rails, as the call maker designed it. I do play the end of the paddle toward me for one rail and the end of the paddle away from me for the other rail. Normally 2 different distinct hen yelps. Clucks, cutts and purrs can be controlled on either rail.
I play it both ways.
I'm inbetween. Usually sideways..
Both if they will run both ways.
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Both... yelping paddle up. Cutting always down. That's how I've ran it. Just more comfortable for me.
I play it both ways as well as conventional. I will also hold the lid and run the box itself. You can get several diffrent hens out of single box call doing this
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You can get more birds out of it by running it backwards or upside down .. watch Tim Murdock run one this way on youtube or facebook .... Tim Lisa Murdock is how you look him up on facebook...
Down. Probably why I didn't kill a bird on my out of state trip to New Mexico
I find it more comfortable to have the handles down on my long box but the others I hold down between my legs and work them.
Depends on the box call some sound better up some down. The one box all I now own sounds better played handle down with lid stroked upwards.
Depends on the box. My boat paddle I run sideways. My one siders I run flat. My two siders just depends on the mood I'm in...I may just grab them by the backend and give them a shake every now and then. :jackson:
There's not a right or wrong way. You run it whichever way you think it sounds the best.
For me I learned how to use one with the handle down, you can get loud with it that way or play it soft. When I want to try to fire one up I flip the box handle up, great for sending out those really desperate, lookin' for love yelps, for loud, sharp cutts and cackles.
I always run the paddle down.
I run it both ways. Usually depending on how I am holding my gun, and therefore the ease of running the call.