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Favorite Striker for Slate

Started by cntrlPAlngbrds, March 07, 2013, 01:01:35 PM

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cntrlPAlngbrds

What is your favorite type of striker (generally or specifically) for using on plain slate?

I have been using the primos triple 7 striker for several years, and want to see about getting something a little better.

REBELYELL

It hards to be a good hickory or purpleheart stick, but I also like dogwood, persminnon and black locust. I have an apitung striker on the way from Harold Fowler. He told me it sounded good on slate.

bornagain64


lightsoutcalls

The sound a given striker produces on a given surface will be different on pots made by different callmakers.  I had to read that twice to make sure I understood what I just said...

That said, recommendations are generalizations based on the experience of the contributor. 

I like osage, pecan (very similar to hickory), persimmon, padauk, canarywood, bubinga, rosewood, tulipwood, bocote...  There are lots of good sounding woods for strikers on slate.
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paboxcall

Hard to beat soft purrs on slate.

I like walnut and osage personally.

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mudhen

One of the 5-6 I carry all the time  :)

I honestly don't have a favorite striker, they all sound different, especially with slate, so I own just a few strikers.

But given all the possible weather conditions, I like to have a laminated striker with me at all times....

mudhen
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Longbeardfever4ever

If I plan on running a slate call in the woods, I'll have a dymonwood, a purpleheart, and a hard maple.
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hunter22

My favorite strikers on a slate surface are persimmon, dogwood, and wild plum.

PALongspur

My absolute favorite striker is an old Lightning Strike made by Ted Peters. I have both the birch and the oak, I prefer the birch.

Gobblerstopper

I made a lacewood for a guy that was here the other day for his slate call and he wanted 5 more of them to go with the other slates he ordered. We both liked it. I've always been a fan of wenge, canarywood and paduak.

jblackburn

Hickory, red oak, and persimmon
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savduck

Tough to beat hickory on slate. Blood wood is a close second.
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captin_hook

Quote from: savduck on March 07, 2013, 10:29:31 PM
Tough to beat hickory on slate. Blood wood is a close second.
I'm a hickory type of guy on just about any playing surface.

WildTigerTrout

If forced to choose one striker for slate it would be hickory.
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magnoliagamecalls

My favorite is a Hickory with a flared tip