My Outlaw Hen showed up today.
This call is so good in a few different ways. First off it looks really unique and vintage, the green glass is nice looking and is pretty soft feeling for glass. Comes ready to play, one or two passes with some 100 grit and you're go to go. The striker is equally old school looking but is excellent, extra long purpleheart with either an oak or hickory top, probably oak. It's better for the call that it came with than my Halloran or Lonzo strikers were. I've only been able to play it with two strikers so far but both ran great.
This call is full of turkey! The first impression of this call was that it doesn't sound so much like a competition tuned call, it sounds like a turkey, if that makes any sense. No unrealistic extra pop to the clucks or over the top screech on the front of a yelp. It sounds like it was built to replicate a turkey instead of being built to try and beat another call in a judges hand. He add's some stuff that most don't tell you about. He indexes the call with turkey tracks on the outside rim of the pot, that way when you pick it up you can line them up with the edge of your thumb and be playing in your spot consistently. I scratch my calls different for purrs and putts, with another spot for Kee Kee's and yelps. Cool idea that makes it faster to play when it comes out of the pocket in low light.
It sounds how YOU want it to sound. It will go high and low in pitch, breaks-over really nice if you want it to, EXCELLENT purrs and putts. If you are good with pressure it will give you the exact level of raspyness you want and responds well to striker changes for tone and rasp. It will get pretty bright but overall it has a warm mid-range tone. It's like a humbucker compared to a single coil for the guitar players out there. Very dynamic in tone from playing the edge to a more center of face type of pulls, plays well near the center when a lot of calls don't. I give it a 9.25/10. Very nice call and right up there for most versatile pot call in my vest.
