Your most used call

[ScottTaulbee]

I was thinking about the calls I carry on a given hunt, which, generally, is a couple pots, a box call, 3 or 4 strikers, diaphragm calls and for the past 3 or 4 years, a trumpet. Over the past 21 seasons of carrying all of this, I realized that I've called and killed 7 turkeys with pot calls, 1 with a box call, and all the rest with the diaphragm calls. That could be because I have the most confidence in diaphragm calls and to me, with a friction call, the sound is built in, whereas with a diaphragm call, it's all in the user and I have always taken great pride in calling them up with a diaphragm. Or it could be because I always have a diaphragm call in my mouth and it's less of a hassle than digging out the others. Any who, I'm curious to see what y'all typically carry and what style you seem to favor over others.


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[BDeal]

About 95% with a pot. The other 5% with a box

[roosterstraw]

I get the most use out of a diaphragm call. I usually try my other calls first but if they're not cutting it I fall back to ole faithful.

[Tail Feathers]

It varies.  Most of my birds came to a mouth call.  The last couple of years most fell to a pot call.  This year a box sounds good to my ear.  I will be starting out with a box this year I think.

[richard black]

I use a trumpet 90% of the time  followed by a scratch box. I carry two trumpets and 1 scratch box.

[g8rvet]

90% pot call, although most are finished with a mouth call (if needed). 

[jhoward11]

Slate of some sort and mouth call

[deathfoot]

90% of mine have fell victim to the box call. The other 10% to pots.

[Greg Massey]

Just a variety of different calls.  2 pot calls that have a lot of sentinel attachments is my first slate call - Lohman Thunder dome and my first ceramic pot call from Jim Shelley in a cherry pot.... another call i carry on all my hunts is the first crow call I bought, a black plastic one from Knight Hale - Cadiz Ky ... to this day it sounds more like a crow than any others I've heard.  I still use them all in my bag of tricks

[guesswho]

Give me a cane call and a mouth diaphragm and I'm set. 

[Yoder409]

I put a diaphragm in at the truck in the dark.  It doesn't come out until a tag is punched or I'm back at the truck to go home.

So 90% + diaphragm.  The other 10% weighted heavily toward a box.  Might go for days and not pull out my pot call.  This is TYPICALLY.  Once in a long while, I'll get a wild hair and switch it up.  But not typically.

[Muzzy61]

Mostly a pot call to call to call them close and a mouth call to finish them off.

[springtime_overland]

Working a bird, I'll warm him up with the trumpet and finish him off with a diaphragm..

Locating a bird, it's 50% trumpet, 25% pot, 25% diaphragm..

A trumpet does something to a gobbler that I've never been able to replicate with another call..

[northms]

95% mouth call and 5% doubled-sided pot call. Glass on one side and slate on the other. I usually carry a couple of mouth calls and one pot call. Travel light 

[ol bob]

My green delrin Adj. trumpet.