Purr Striker

[Greg Massey]

Do you have a favorite Purr Striker?           If so what wood, and do you like flare tip, straight tip or whatever?

[RunNGunSC]

I'm still searching for that favorite striker, but my search will honestly probably never end.  I purr more consistently with straight tip strikers (Fowler), but on a freshly/well conditioned pot my JLH flare tip strikers purr and cluck like champs. The harder/denser woods seem to purr better for me. 

[Bowguy]

Imo it's more about holding high up enough more than a favorite wood type for purrs. Whatever type is in my hand but that likely be a straight tip

[compton30]

I have a Stuckey striker made of Holly that makes a really nice purr

[mmclain]

I make cluck a purr strikers.   The best ones for that dead soft purr and cluck tend to be the softer woods on a purr pot or on a pot built from cedar or sassafras I've heard a China berry call is very good too. 

[jed clampett]

I have a straight tip plum striker I really like for purrs and clucks

[Spitten and drummen]

I have a JHL heavy cedar that is outstanding for purrs and clucks.

[Hoot 000]

Depends on what you want a purr to  sound like , there are soft purrs usually made with softer wood Cedar,mahogany ,birch will make feeding or contented or even saw something that didn't look right purrs. Purrs you do on a box call ,a glass call or hard slate  to me would be a fighting purr all together different. I like to use a piece of gray slate like Rodger parks tree talker or a purr pot of some type with grey slate. People who are good with a mouth call can really sound good. To answer the question originally asked before I started rambling I use a cedar Striker most of the time.

[rong]

Burnt tip hickory. The fire hardened tip really bites and skitters on a slate surface.

[Harty]

JLH heavy cedar or blue mahoe

[paboxcall]

I have a JHL heavy cedar that is outstanding for purrs and clucks.

I lost a walnut striker from Tuscarora Legend years ago that was best to my ear for purrs, soft content talk. But the JHL heavy cedar does all that but better.

[Tyoung]

JLH heavy cedar or heavy hickory works well for me....