Deadliest wood in the turkey woods

[packmule]

I've been thinking a lot about this lately as I'm running my pot calls, box calls, scratch boxes, etc.  A few wood types are good options for many of these calls.  As I started thinking back over the great calls I've hunted the past few years I see some definite patterns.  What are the wood types that are deadliest in the calls you use?

For me the list goes like this:
(1) Walnut
(2) Mahogany
(3) Cedar

It seems like Walnut has been involved in many of my successful hunts, even if it was just a striker top on a 2 piece striker.  But mahogany and cedar have been responsible for a bunch of successes too.....this past year I've acquired several calls with Limba and am thinking that will be great in the future.

[outdoors]

THE THREE YOU HAVE LISTED
IVE HAD NICE CALLS MADE OF MINERIZED POPLAR
THATS FOR DOMESTIC
EXOTICS ARE DIFFERANT ...............

[Yoder409]

The boxcall I have used 99.9% of the time for the last 25 years is a glued call.........   Cherry paddle and base, walnut end blocks and poplar soundboards.

In Cost-style boxes I am really partial to walnut over poplar, walnut over mahogany and walnut over butternut. 

Lots to be said for purpleheart on mahogany as well.

So for the most part, I'm right there with that handful of classic woods.......

Walnut
Poplar
Butternut
Mahogany
Purpleheart

[KentuckyHeadhunter]

If I could only pick two it would be walnut and Cedar.

[paboxcall]

I've had a walnut over walnut glued box for many, many years that's truck more birds then anything else I have ever carried.  I think walnut ranks way up there on this list.

[perrytrails]

Interesting topic...

Walnut pots
Hickory strikers for me

Gotta put Purple Heart way up there.

Cedar, mahogany, popular, maple

[mgm1955]

Snakewood, bloodwood, butternut, black limba, mineral poplar

[larry9988]

As far as box calls, purpleheart on cedar and walnut. Also like walnut and cherry on poplar and butternut. I like a zebra wood pot and walnut pots. In a trumpet I like cocobolo and osage. So for domestic woods that would be cedar, poplar, butternut, osage. Exotic purpleheart, cocobolo and zebra.

[Clardh]

I'm surprised no one mentioned chestnut

[bbcustomboxcalls]

For Box calls:
Honduras Mahogany
Black Walnut
Poplar

For Pot calls:
Claro Walnut
Myrtlewood
Cherry

Just to name a few.
Bill

[M Sharpe]

For long boxes, bloodwood over walnut, short boxes: walnut over walnut or walnut over Honduras mahogany, Richard Hudson's hen boxes: snakewood over teak

Pot calls: walnut
To my ears, walnut is like a fine wine, it just gets better with age.

[Gooserbat]

Lids are maple, walnut, jatoba, and purple heart.  Body would be cedar, mahogany, cherry, and sycamore.

[ferocious calls]

I have an all Sycamore short box that does it for me. Also an all Wormy Chestnut short box that breaks a lot of hearts. Made one from all Osage that Lonnie Sneed Sr. said was the best sounding box he ever heard. Great sounding calls can be made from most hardwoods once we dial it in.

[mossyhorn2]

I think walnut is like a 30-06. It works on just about everything. I also like cherry  and cedar.

[packmule]

I think walnut is like a 30-06. It works on just about everything.

Totally agree.