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Purr Striker

Started by Greg Massey, February 18, 2022, 11:34:14 AM

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Greg Massey

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

RunNGunSC

#1
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.
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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

Quote from: Spitten and drummen on February 22, 2022, 02:16:16 PM
I have a JHL heavy cedar that is outstanding for purrs and clucks.

:agreed:

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.
A quality paddle caller will most run itself.  It just needs someone to carry it around the woods. Yoder409
Over time...they come to learn how little air a good yelper actually requires. ChesterCopperpot

Tyoung

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