Chalk for box call

[Rodd Gunn]

Several months ago there was a posting asking for the best chalk to use on a box call. I can't seem to find that posting. So, what is the best chalk to use on a box call? Thanks,.

[TRKYHTR]

Brick red check out Walbucks.

Joe

[pappy]

Brick red check out Walbucks.

Joe

[Spring Creek Calls]

I received a card in the mail last week stating that Walbuck has been bought out by LA-CO Industries. They will carry most of Walbucks products including the brick red call chalk. Brown call chalk has been discontinued.

[mgm1955]

I received a card in the mail last week stating that Walbuck has been bought out by LA-CO Industries. They will carry most of Walbucks products including the brick red call chalk. Brown call chalk has been discontinued.

Good info. Thanks.

[M Sharpe]

Here is what I have found, as a hunter, not a builder. Calls like different chalk. I've got some that like white, some red and some blue....try them all.

[firedup]

Fan of blue carpenter chalk here.  In the half rounds.  Tried a bunch over the years but this has consistently produced good results for me and its available bought everywhere.  Or maybe.....I found a box with a gross of 1/2 rounds couple years ago at a flea market in Amish country.  Sign on it said $1 each. We started talking and I ended up with the WHOLE BOX for $2 .  After the deal the old farmer said "I was ready to give em to ya but hey...$2 is $2!".  He also said "I have carried that box around for years and was beginning to think I never would get rid of it!"  True story.  Go figure... So I had a bunch..maybe that is why I like it??

[Jacobson]

Here is what I have found, as a hunter, not a builder. Calls like different chalk. I've got some that like white, some red and some blue....try them all.

I have found the very same thing after a lot of testing.

[vaturkey]

I like Blue carpenters chalk in the rounds ! Don't use white school house chalk ! It's got oil in it !

[WillowRidgeCalls]

I've done quite a bit of testing on different chalks for calls. I've tested chalk form Walbucks, Dixie, Crayola, and a few others, I've tested different colored chalks, and different grits of chalk, carpenters, rail road chalks. I've done tests with dry wood, damp wood, wet woods, because it makes a difference in that kind of weather ( dry, humid, foggy, rainy) you hunt mostly in. It also has, how you play the call, will effect what chalks you should use. It also had a condition of what woods the call is made of, if the call is a high pitched sounding call you may like a red colored chalks, if it's a softer sounding call, you may like a blue chalk better, if it's a dull flat sounding call a white chalk may be what's needed? That being said, if your area that you hunt has a steady normal weather conditions, your better off using a red or blue colored carpenter chalk for most calls. If your area is a high humidity area, then the white rain chalk is unbeatable. I've put calls in my freezer for a week and took them out and let them defrost, chalked them up with blue carpenters chalk, red rail road chalk, white rain chalk. The carpenters and rail road calls both played about 3-5 swipes with the paddle before they quit playing, the rain chalk played all day, so it makes a difference to what kind of weather you hunt in? If your an aggressive call player then you'll like the rail road chalk better, if you play softly and not very often, then you'll like the carpenter chalk best?
A very important part is Don't Over Load you call with chalk, it takes very little chalk to make a call play. Chalk will obsorb moisture like a sponge does water, keep your calls free of a lot of chalk and they will play their best for you. I carry an old shaving cream brush that I use to whisk a lot of the chalk off a call after I rechalk it, and a call will play most of the day without having to rechalk it.
With all that being said, there really isn't a Best Chalk for calls. It depends on what works best for you do to, how you run a call, where your hunting, different weather conditions? If you hunt in different areas across the country, carry a few different chalk pieces with you, you never know what you might need?

[outdoors]

 

[Rodd Gunn]

Thanks everyone for the information. I have to look at Walbucks. Lowe's and Home Depot in our area did have any. Rodd Gunn