Why do you have multiple box calls?

[Penguin907]

Is it mostly the fun of collecting or do you find enough variation in box calls to make situational swaps worth it when hunting?

[Bowguy]

Guys have dif calls for many reasons but if you are just starting it's like imagining you have one fishing lure. It'll work sometimes but not always the best tool all the time.
With one box for instance you can run different sides for dif sounds. You can change cadence a little to sound like a dif hen. We're not discussing pots but that would include all the things you could do with strikers to change sound too. Areas of any call to run on.
Long boxes are superior to most short boxes be advised cause you can do even more.
It's always better to have more than one call, type call, etc but you can do things initially to change em up. Hope that made sense

[Will]

I have short and long boxes that are high pitched young hen and some that are low pitched mature hen. I also have some that give a nice deep gobbler yelp or Jake yelp. I carry 2 boxes that cover all of those sounds. I have them because of versatility.

[callmakerman]

Guys have dif calls for many reasons but if you are just starting it's like imagining you have one fishing lure. It'll work sometimes but not always the best tool all the time.
With one box for instance you can run different sides for dif sounds. You can change cadence a little to sound like a dif hen. We're not discussing pots but that would include all the things you could do with strikers to change sound too. Areas of any call to run on.
Long boxes are superior to most short boxes be advised cause you can do even more.
It's always better to have more than one call, type call, etc but you can do things initially to change em up. Hope that made sense

This is a great answer.

[Yoder409]

Because they just keep showing up at my house.   


    

[Penguin907]

Any wood combos recommended for a less raspy young hen sounds? Already have nice raspy black poplar box with an ebony lib.

[Yoder409]

Any wood combos recommended for a less raspy young hen sounds? Already have nice raspy black poplar box with an ebony lib.

Try walnut/walnut

[Tarheel]

I own several different box calls because of the friendships I've made. Owning something made by a friend facilitates more than just owning a turkey call. I really don't need another turkey call, but I'll take and enjoy all the friendships I can make the short time I have left on this earth. Enjoying a turkey call a friend has made just makes hunting turkeys more special. It's like sharing the hunt with them.....and every callmaker I know just loves getting those pictures of turkeys and the call of theirs you used to call them to the gun.

[wchadw]

Variety is the spice of life


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[Bowguy]

Contact a maker. Tell them what you're looking for. All calls even the same combo will never sound exact. Wood density changes for one thing. Some makers will send you soundfiles or play it on the phone for you. Next option and this may be a decent one is get some used ones. They've already depreciated and if you take care will be worth about what you spent if you don't overspend initially. Sell what doesn't suit you

[Prohunter3509]

I make my own box calls have tried different types of wood combinations and my all time favorite for an old hen is black walnut over mahogany I love that combo ifni want a young hen I will get maple over Canary wood killed few with that combo. Crap I could go on love a good box. Cherry over butternut is great

[Zobo]

Contact a maker. Tell them what you're looking for. All calls even the same combo will never sound exact. Wood density changes for one thing. Some makers will send you soundfiles or play it on the phone for you. Next option and this may be a decent one is get some used ones. They've already depreciated and if you take care will be worth about what you spent if you don't overspend initially. Sell what doesn't suit you

Yes, agree. Also some makers just tend to tune more raspy than others. So the maker has a lot to do with it not just the wood. For example Preacherman boxes are generally raspier, that's how Jody likes them. Steve Mann's boxes tend to have less rasp built in. But remember too that the player for the most part can make any box more or less raspy by how you run it. Playing the rail in the middle or higher(toward the screw,usually runs clearer, running it lower on the rail(toward the closed position) and with a softer touch will usually produce more rasp.

[Zobo]

Because they just keep showing up at my house.   


    

Funny but the same odd occurrence keeps on happening to me too...weird 🤔 

[ferocious calls]

Cause I make so many different boxes. Have to keep a few of each around at all times. 

[3bailey3]

Heck this one showed up last week, I don't know why but damn it sounds good!