Slate pot Striker?? Anything striker!

[kevin2]

I got a new slate pot the other day, my first slate to tell the truth.

I see that it isn't unusual to have more than one striker, several seem normal as well.

My question/s, what makes a good striker, and where would be a good place to start if I was going to add another striker or 2 for my new slate.

Do I even need another striker?

What is your go to striker & why?

[Yooper]

I must have a dozen strikers or more and seven or eight pot calls.  I decide which pot calls I'm going to use on any given day, and then I try all the strikers to see which ones work best.  There must be a better way to decide, but to tell the truth, I just like listening to them.  I don't know if this helps you or not, but it works for me.

[TN Beard Buster]

You need a couple different strikers. A harder wood will produce higher pitch while a softer wood will produce lower tones. With that said you can produce broad array of sounds with the same call! IMO!!!

[redarrow]

I probably have at least 30 strikers. Some cause I like the way they look. some cause I like how they make a pot sound. What sounds good on one pot or pot surface can sound like crap on another.Just like matching shells,and chokes to a particular gun for the best density of pattern it takes trial and error sometimes to match a pot and striker.

[redarrow]

I should add that the custom pots usually come with a matched striker. Lightsout and a few of the other call makers here take great pains to set you up with a striker that compliments the particular pot that you purchase.

[scoot12]

I own a lot of slate surfaced calls,  probably around 30 custom slate calls from various callmakers and I find diamondwood and purpleheart to run good on most of them.  Scoot

[Gooserbat]

typically the lighter the wood the higher the pitch, (ie red oak) or the heaver the wood the deeper the pitch (Persimmon)  the  but not always, Osage is a prime example.  Hickory is the 30-06 of strikers and it's hard to beat. 

[TauntoHawk]

last year I sunk some money into strikers, I got about 20 from all different makers and some in flat tip, rounded, flared, and bell... Strikers can really make a call sound completely different. I found that each call has a favorite striker that that just takes it a notch above what everything can do.

My crystal/slate like a flared tip purpleheart
my slate/glass takes a bell tipped Osage
Ceramic LOVES a yellowheart
Aluminum really works with my straight tipped Paduak

[kevin2]

well, I got 2 off the classifieds. A couple Fred Fox strikers, Tulipwood & a Purpleheart. That will get me going. Hope I did well...