Winter Turkey Talk---LOST CALLERS.

[paboxcall]

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!   

I don't have any friends"THAT" good. 

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

[Yoder409]

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!   

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 !!!

[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.

[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.