waterproof custom box ?

[pogo]

I am looking to buy a box call and want to go with custom if possible for numerous reasons.  The one thing that mas- produced box calls are now featuring that I don't see from the smaller builders is some sort of weather proof call.  I hunt south Florida primarily and there is always fog and damp conditions, and sometimes light rains.  I can't use a mouth call, I do quite well with a custom aluminum slate with the right strikers when it is wet, but I would also like to add a good short box to my arsenal.  Other than playing it in a plastic bag, is there any answer.  Do the rain chalks or paints work.  Would these mess up the sound that I want?  Are the massed produced waterproof callers just gimmicks,  any call builders dealing with this?  Advice?

[Spring Creek Calls]

After reading your post, I would get the box you want and use the "rain chalk" on it. If you decide to add the "water proofing" paint, please don't tell the callmaker! I love using a box, but when it's raining steadily, the box stays in the truck.

[shadetree callers]

 I would have to agree . When it is raining hard , it's a good bet to leave the boxcalls in the truck . Pick up your pot calls and a good striker that works wet . You could always pick up a commercial box with waterproofing already on it to use in bad conditions . The waterproof paint works well but it looks so ugly that I would hate to put it on a custom call . Rain chalk works better in moist conditions than regular chalk , but it does have it's limits too . When it is rainig hard , I will set up a blind and wait out the turkeys . In this case I take one of my fencepost calls wrapped in a ziploc bag . Here's to sunny skies this Spring !!

[pogo]

thanks for the advice so far.  I doubt I would want to use the box call in the pouring rain, most of what I deal with is very heavy fog that takes a long time to burn off and I am afraid that it will negate the nice sounds that a good box should make.  Is the rain chalk all I would need on mornings like that?  I guess the other answer would be to use a comercial waterproof box, and although I know if would work, it is the direction I am trying to avoid.

[TRKYHTR]

There is no way I am going to paint or spray any of that stuff on one of my good box calls. Maybe on a glue up that you don't care much about. I would just use the bread bag.

TRKYHTR

[shadetree callers]

Rain chalk works pretty good . It has really good bite . You can chalk up polished glass with it and it and a call will run like the glass is roughed up . It has a resin core that you can put on striker tips that will make them "bite" even better !! Give it a try .