Deceiving Sounding Calls

[HookedonHooks]

The change in environment certainly effects the tones and how we hear the calls. Over time I've had pots change too, not just the perception of them but actually change. Fresh from the maker the call was a screamer, dead on, outside or inside. Then a few months go by and the call still sounds good but it has lost the "it" factor it once had.

Keeping tips of strikers and conditioned surfaces for your pots and the tools to do as such will help with environmental changes.

[slicksbeagles1]

I have all this happen to me and more. What I do is leave what ever call I am trying or hunting with inside my truck so overnight it get acclimated to the conditions outside and try them that way. I bought a call one year at the NWTF call makers auction that actually won it's division (when it was really fun not this online crap) man it sounded so good so I take it hunting and start using it first thing it was so bad I thought I just ran every turkey in the country away so I put it up and later on in the day I tried it again and it sounded awesome, you couldn't use this call until around 10 o'clock after it warmed up some needless to say it sits in my collection.

[sixbird]

We've all had calls that either excelled in the woods even though they sounded less than adequate in the house or vice versa.
The ones that surprise me are the ones that you play in or outside that you say, "that won't call a chicken, let alone a turkey." Then you find they're one of the hottest calls you own.
I've had a few surprise me like that...

[crow]

several years back on a misty but not rainy day I took several longboxes out to the barn to play, they were wrapped up and under my coat. Barn was dry inside.

after 15 minutes 1 of them noticeably lost it's sound/tone, this was normally a great sounding call, had hunted it and had confidence in it to take on out of state hunts, it was the only 1 from that maker I have had, don't know if it was something lacking in his finish or what.

none of the several others that were played that time had any problems or changes in their tone or pitch.

[Spitten and drummen]

I have heard live hens that if I had a call that sounded like them , I would throw in the trash.

[Zobo]

We've all had calls that either excelled in the woods even though they sounded less than adequate in the house or vice versa.
The ones that surprise me are the ones that you play in or outside that you say, "that won't call a chicken, let alone a turkey." Then you find they're one of the hottest calls you own.
I've had a few surprise me like that...

A got a D Helm sycamore sawn and glued box call that's exactly like that. When I received it and played it, the sound was pretty weird/bad to me but I carried it one rainy day and to my surprise called in a very nice gobbler with it. I've called in and shot 14 more with it since that day. It's my most productive box call.

[guesswho]

I always found voice calling to be in that category.   Inside or outside mine doesn't sound good to my ears.  But turkeys on the other seem to like it.  I use it every year and usually on every hunt at some point.

[crow]

I always found voice calling to be in that category.   Inside or outside mine doesn't sound good to my ears.  But turkeys on the other seem to like it.  I use it every year and usually on every hunt at some point.

Are you talking about the little voices you hear calling to you?
I've found the voices I hear outside are more laidback than the inside voices

[guesswho]

Inside voices tend to call to much.

[idratherb]

 

[Greg Massey]

Inside voices tend to call to much.

Do you use a cough drop on your tongue to get more rasp...

[BDeal]

I have bought a couple pots that are complete junk but I also hunted for years with only a $12 HS Black Magic and killed quite a few birds that way. Now I bring a bunch of custom calls and strikers and really don't have that many more responses....

[Neill_Prater]

No.  Mine seem to be always be terrible sounding indoors and out.  So I just roll with it and hope to find a hard of hearing gobbler.   Maybe one I've missed before and ruined his ear drums.

Ditto!

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[Ihuntoldschool]

Sounds vary indoors vs outdoors.
Pot Calls always much better indoors.

Even outdoors, different terrain, elevation,  humidity,  changes the sound. It's like the artist who sounds way better in a recording studio than outdoors in concert on a cold day

[Muzzy61]

I tried a wing bone for the first time last year. It really didn't sound that good, but I turned on a recorder and walked about 50 - 70 yards away and recorded the sounds and when I played them back it sounded must better. First time into the woods used it to take a bird I had history with and ended up killing him with it.