Your Best Value Turkey Call

[Zobo]

 

I've been fortunate to be gifted calls from some of the finest callmakers around so those are definitely my personal best values. Outside of that, our classifieds section here on OG produces some stupidly good deals on calls year to year. Right now I'm obsessed with a Preacherman box I picked up a few months ago for about half what it would've cost new. This thing is pure turkey. But if I was going with calls that could be purchased new I'd go Greg Gwaltney on a trumpet. He's making calls on par with yelpers that cost twice what he's asking. I'd go with them Shoemaker boys at SS Custom Calls on a box, and if I had to go cheaper there I'd get a Spring Creek and hunt hell out of it. With pot calls there's a whole lot of makers you can pick up in the $50-$65 range. I'd get something plain jane from Buster Halford and again hunt the hell out of it. I'm not very proficient on a diaphragm otherwise I'd say that call would be hard to beat as it can do everything and worst case you've got $10 tied up, most times $5.


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All excellent recommendations!

[Zobo]

 

My CODY World Class has cost me less than a dollar a bird, so far at .65 is pretty cost effective

MK M GOBL

You can't argue with success!!!

[paboxcall]

........ and if I had to go cheaper there I'd get a Spring Creek and hunt hell out of it.

X2 !!!

Mike's calls are some of the best values out there.  Very well one.  Very reasonably priced. And ALL turkey !!!!

Yep.

With Spring Creek one just can't ask for a better tuned short box.

[Far2low]

You would have a hard time beating derrin dawkins pot call for $50 imo

[REBELYELL]

Lonnie Mabry pots and boxes
SS boxes and scratchers
Andy Terrell trumpets

[TJ3152]

SS scratch box. Inexpensive and very deadly with the soft stuff.

[Chris O]

For being well under 50$ when I bought them maybe 5 years ago. Eckle Smith from Mississippi makes a box call that will put many expensive calls to shame. They are nothing fancy but the sound is definitely there. There used to be a sound file from bugaman with one of his calls on the forum.

[TauntoHawk]

Anything I've ever received from SS is pretty deep into the value side of the equation. Always affordable and deadly

Best values is probably a cedar scratch box from L&L I think cost me $22 and has accounted for 8-10 gobblers and a $50 box I got from a call maker I can no longer track down or find thats up there with everything I've ever played

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[MISSISSIPPI Double beard]

A $8 Knight and Hale model 150 push pin. A $12 lynch composite pot call. They are in my vest every time I hit the woods.

[ferocious calls]

I get the most value from the calls I make. You can too. Ask any that get Ferocious. Lots of singers ready to ship. Short boxes. Fancy or real fancy you pick. 

[Yoder409]

I get the most value from the calls I make. You can too. Ask any that get Ferocious. Lots of singers ready to ship. Short boxes. Fancy or real fancy you pick.

ALL of Kip's boxes (granted I've only played 40 or 50 of them) are pure turkey !!!!!

ONLY guy I know that can pull a perfect hen outta a 100% red oak box call.  THAT...........is sayin' something !!!

[bbcoach]

My still do this day best value is a Primos ol Betsy slate call. It's ugly and cheap and maybe I got luck but the one I have surely does have a sweet sound and the turkeys seem to like it. And I actually have a buddy who has one older than mine and his is the same.

X2!!!!  Cheap, Ugly but it just gets the job done Day in and Day Out!!!  This call has killed birds in Florida, NC, Kansas and South Dakota (Slam).  I'm not sure what it is about this call but it will GETTER DONE!  I've Gifted several to hunting buddies and they have killed birds with theirs as well.  My Go To!

[runngun]

Preston Pittman "Flap N Scratch"!!!! Perfect for when you don't have any leaves around to Scratch in!!!! One of the best calls I've ever used!!! Deadly.

Have a good one and May God bless, Bo

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[hpo]

Best value? Coffee stirrer straw. Use as a Yelper for clucks and yelps.

[g8rvet]

Best value?  HS Strut Triple Glass. First call I bought and always in my vest.  Have called in a lot of turkeys with it.  I have some nice calls, but that one is still my go to call, first I pull out.