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Winter Turkey Talk---LOST CALLERS.

Started by quavers59, December 30, 2016, 12:42:34 PM

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paboxcall

Quote from: West Augusta on January 02, 2017, 06:36:54 PM
Quote from: paboxcall on January 02, 2017, 06:12:20 PM
Quote from: West Augusta on January 02, 2017, 05:59:30 PM
I lost my favorite Dymondwood striker this fall and with Dymondwood no longer being made I went back and hand raked the hill until dark and finally found it.

A very good friend of mine lost his favorite striker last spring, and borrowed the dymondwood striker you made for me Steve.  Apparently he liked it so much, and the weight and size fit his hand so well, I guess I'm the one who now lost a striker!  LOL!   :happy0167:

I don't have any friends"THAT" good.  :TooFunny:

If you met this guy, I'm certain you'd give him ten strikers.  One of the good guys.   :icon_thumright:
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

Yoder409

Quote from: paboxcall on January 02, 2017, 06:12:20 PM
A very good friend of mine lost his favorite striker last spring, and borrowed the dymondwood striker you made for me Steve.  Apparently he liked it so much, and the weight and size fit his hand so well, I guess I'm the one who now lost a striker!  LOL!   :happy0167:

He MUST be a very good friend............... !!!!!

I've been through a gazillion strikers to find the only two I ever carry.  My "very good friends" know better than to even ask to TOUCH those two strikers................ LET ALONE leave my sight with one of them !!!!

Friends are a dime a dozen............. but those perfectly matched strikers............ PRICELESS !!!

PA elitist since 1979

The good Lord ain't made a gobbler I can't kill.  I just gotta be there at the right time.....  on the day he wants to die.

firedup

Gloves (very recently...last Thursday), facemasks and so forth.  Nothing real big.  But strikers.....those stories brought back memories that HURT!  THE magic striker of all time (for me) that ran on EVERYTHING, and turned crappy calls into golden goose eggs of turkey calling goodness....lost in a chase for an ill natured gobbler. He just would not come in and die easy.  I went back MULTIPLE times, visited all the spots, walked the place over, raked leaves, cried and whined but it just melted away.  I advertised in the local paper for lost striker....wore black for 6 months....finally counseling helped me move on.  Well...most of that is true.  LOL

I think I saw that backpack in KY....or was it TN??

TURKEYWHACKER

Was unloading gear from the boat onto the shore and I guess my sporty little double zippered dual pot call pouch unsnapped itself. Naturally I discovered this about an hour later as it was getting light. Looked down and saw it gone from my vest. Zoomed in on my GPS and backtracked my way through the swamp back to the boat. Didn't find my call and the other boat that was next to ours was gone too, maybe a coincidence or maybe not. Whined to a buddy about losing both a glass and aluminum pot call that morning. Him being a call maker said he would make me a two sided glass/aluminum pot to ease my pain. Guess it all worked out in the end. Thanks Chuch. :happy0064:

silvestris

No matter how big a hurry you are to change locations or how excited you are after a kill (or heaven forbid, a miss) it pays to develop the habit of looking around before you leave and making sure everything is in its proper place and secure.
"[T]he changing environment will someday be totally and irrevocably unsuitable for the wild turkey.  Unless mankind precedes the birds in extinction, we probably will not be hunting turkeys for too much longer."  Ken Morgan, "Turkey Hunting, A One Man Game