Three years ago I had an old man come up at a flea market and start talking to me. We got on the subject of hunting and it went turkey really quick. So he tells me about this trough call he makes and how good they sound but soft. I had never even heard of one and was puzzled. I asked him how much he gets for them because I had to have one!!
This man was a true turkey man. Without replying about a price he smiled and said I've got one in the truck I'll go get it. So off he goes, walking very very slowly as he had seen his better days. By then I was wondering if I'd fallen for a sales pitch and was going to be paying for a gimmick.
Finally he comes back grinning ear to ear and he showed me how it's made and sounds and I immediately said I'll take it!! Well he kept talking and finally handed it to me and I was giving it a run and he said it sounded good. Finally after I insisted on a price again he put his hand up in the air and said no price on it. I was puzzled. He said I only make so many of these a year and they're for friends and for people like you, its free! I had no words to say. I was touched. I thanked him over and over because he wouldn't take money for it. All in all we talked for over two and a half hours. So I told him I wanted to pay him somehow and offered him one of many knives I'd made. He didn't want to really as payment. So I told him look, it's not payment for the call, I make them for friends like you and I want you to have whichever one you want. Grinning ear to ear he asked if I meant any of them for real and I said sure!! He picked out a nice little neck knife and went on and on about it. We shook hands and he wondered off. Mine is aluminum instead of slate.
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