mind change

[Spitten and drummen]

Have any of you had a call and really didn't care for the sound at first , but you kept picking it up and it really started to grow on you. I'm not talking about a call type , but a particular call. I had a certain pot call that I really didn't like. I put it in a drawer in my man cave. Ran across it and played with it off and on and thinking I it's really not bad at all. It actually replaced a call in my vest. Just wanted to see if anyone else has done that.

[KentuckyHeadhunter]

I even do that with my own calls that I make!  That's why I don't toss a "bad" one for a few days.  I have had some calls I didn't like but months later tried a different striker and found a killer.  I reckon just like music we sometimes prefer a different tone. 

[Spitten and drummen]

I beginning to think we are like gobblers. Don't care for a sound one day and later think "hey , I like that." Lol

[boatpaddle]

Absolutely.....I've had paddle calls made in the south, that took awhile to acclimate to the different weather, here in Pa....

    I bought a Snodgrass paddle call years ago, that was a good call, when I bought it.....It's a pure death, non-legal to possess, almost unfair to the gobblers,  "KILLER" call now....Butternut under cedar......As it aged, it just got better & better...

     Rickey has a sassafrass call from Snoz, that I'd bet the farm is doing the same thing.....

    It's amazing how climate affects wood calls....

[outdoors]

PASS THIS BY ME AGAIN ...............

[strutnrut]

YES for sure. I sold a call to a guy once and he loved it then later he swear that he couldn't get the call to run. Now this guy knows how to run a Turpin box. I replaced the call and it took awhile to get the box back. I ended up selling the call to a friend of his and he keep it for a year or so then sold the call. Another guy bought the call and he swears by the call and says it isn't going any further.
The point is that sometime what we like at the moment isn't what we or others will think is a great sound. I've changed lids on a call for a different lid that I thought sounded better at the time just to end up going back to the other lid latter on. Record your voice and play it back see if you sound like you think you do. So the question is what does a turkey really hear and do different turkeys hear differently. I think the answer is yes but I think just like any other language the basic sound is the same. Just a different tone so to speak. 

[Spitten and drummen]

well put strut n rut. I agree with all that you said.

[JLH]

This is a daily occurrence for me.....but I do have some that were a dud from the first note, and never will change.

[strutnrut]

JLH I feel your pain those get the saw. 

[JLH]

JLH I feel your pain those get the saw. 

I just give them to my "special" friends.....and hopefully they hunt near me.