Most deadly call

[HOOKS1]

I use every style of call. For me the number one call is a trumpet.

[KansasGobbler]

For sure a Haint gobble call

[RussM311]

A copper pot..... quadrupled my kill ratio.

[bghunter777]

For me its a slate call easily

[zelmo1]

  2 or 3 reed V cut, no contest.

[Jbird22]

Diaphragm and there's not a close second really. But, I've added some killer pots to my collection since the end of last season.

[Fullfan]

22 year old MAD Super Aluminator, prob has 130-150 long beards to its credit.

[goblr77]

Overall a mouth call. I've called more to the gun with a box and pot calls the last five years or so.

[Rapscallion Vermilion]

trumpet

[Thunderbolt]

For me it's the slate call....ive been hunting since 1970....didn't start Turkey hunting till the 1980...im now on my 38th bird this year..and 75% of the birds have been finished with the slate...Rusty

[born2hunt]

3 reed V cut or modified V cut for the win !!!

[Marc]

If I could only take one, or one type of call into the field it would be a diaphragm call...  Realism, volume, versatility, and lack of motion...  If I am trying to cut some ground between myself and a gobbling bird, I can walk/run and call at the same time...  If I have a hung-up bird, I can walk away and call...  A good diaphragm probably has the best potential for realism from a good caller; my potential has yet to be realized though.

I do enjoy a box call though...  They do not seem much louder, but it sure seems to induce a response from further away...  Easy call to use with a lot of versatility...  Sounds more real in the woods than a pot call to me, with almost as much versatility...  Moisture is the enemy here though (as pointed out in a similar thread I posted in the call forum by Ringbill).

Tried a couple pot calls, but all the surfaces and strikers seems a lot to take in, and to me, in the woods, a box call or diaphragm sounds more realistic and reaches out a bit further (as far as volume)...  Never really understood the draw to pot calls?

Learning a trumpet or wingbone call would interest me at some point, but to date, I have never even heard one.

I have made and played around with tube calls, but I see no advantage over a box or diaphragm call?

[harrorick]

I use a deadly double pot slate over glass.
This call will blow them away. If by chance I can't bring them in.
I will use my copper pot.

[hobbes]

Mouth call by far (from start to finish).  Probably because that is what I use 99% of the time.  I use various cuts based on what sounds good to the turkeys on any given day.  Three reeds most times.

[WildTigerTrout]

Mouth calls. I have killed most with double and triple stacked frame calls. Used the Primos "True Double" more than any other.