Last year my old original Woodhaven Copperhead diaphragm call finally died. I had retaped the call 4 years ago and figure that I got @ 11 years out of it. During it's last years, like a lot of singers, it couldn't hit the high notes and didn't have the range that it had when it was young, but could still talk to and bring in gobblers. I have no idea how many birds, gobblers and hens, that it conversed with, but during it's lifetime accounted for the harvest of at least 25 gobblers. I found my "old friend" this weekend while playing w/ calls and have scheduled a suitable internment for the first day of turkey season this year on a hill where it talked to a lot of turkeys. RIP old friend.
