most realistic type of call?

[WildTigerTrout]

Diaphragm.

[M Sharpe]

You mean the one with the "X" inside the bell, that I used to win the calling contest with??? It is a good'un!!

[Dr Juice]

My vote is for: box call.

[grayfox]

I used to would have said a box call because it had been one that fooled me a few years ago by a guy giving it a couple clucks a couple hundred yards behind me. Sure would liked to have known who made the call because it was the real deal. But after watching & listening to Eddie Salter & some of these guys who compete I could have my mind changed to a diaphragm call. There is some people that can flat out make them talk. I usually can pick out a mouth call every time in the woods but it's probably just people that's just not really good on one...like me. lol. Also been messing around with a Beard Hunter & some other builders' scratch boxes & those little buggers can be bad to the bone also. All in all I think it's more who's behind the call than the call itself.

[culpeper]

As a custom box call builder one might think I favor them, but I would agree with many who have posted, box call, scratch box, diaphragm, wing bone, trumpet, etc. IMO it all comes down to who is running the call and under what conditions; early season, windy day, dense cover, open hardwoods, field, etc.  I have heard real turkeys that I was convinced could NOT have been a real hen, but she was and I have heard countless hunters who run a wingbone and a scratch box and they sounded perfect to me, but then the same has occurred with a master running a mouth call.

[HFultzjr]

As others have said, I think it's the caller, not the call.
Some guys can rub 2 sticks together and call a turkey.
Give those guys a "real" turkey call and they can speak turkey better than English!
Me......I still go to my box calls as my go to calls. Getting better with pot calls. Stink with mouth calls.
But other guys......man give them 2 sticks, a rock and they will kill a turkey!

[Marc]

As a call, the diaphragm has the most potential with the right person calling...  I am not that person.

As a caller, the box call is one of the easiest calls to realistically immitate the sounds of a turkey on and sound realistic.  Also, a good box call has the inherent value of making birds react...  Tone, pitch, or whatever, sometimes it just seems a box call gets that reaction when other calls do not.  I have made little "squeaks" and "perks" on a box call on accident that drove birds nuts...  I have had the call squeaking in my holster or vest when quickly moving ot repositionon a bird, only to have the bird pick up the pace because of those incidental little noises.

Never heard a good trumpet, and have not played with a scratch box, but next season, I am going to add a good scratch box (with a couple strikers) to the arsenol next season, and would love to get my hands on a trumpet or wingbone to play with...

If I could only have one type of call in the vest it would be a diaphragm though.  It remains the most versatile call, and it is often the last call I use before the trigger is pulled.  Nice that it is hands and motion free, and capable of making every sound a turkey can make.  Also, I can take 10 different diaphragm calls with 10 different sounds in a container that takes up less space than almost any other single call made.

Seeing videos posted on Youtube, a lot of hunters sound nothing like a turkey, and yet still kill birds.  Seems like a lot of guys calling on those videos sound like seals to me, but the birds still react.  I see people calling in birds and getting away with things that I do not think would ever work for me...  I have also seen a couple videos with darned good hunting skills involved.

[Dr Juice]

I think it is a combination of the hunter and the call. The call being the instrument and the hunter being the musician. However, you don't have to be a Jimmy Page of the hunting world to kill a gobbler. Good luck y'all.

[ferocious calls]

I have the privilege to be around Easterns, 15 hens and 23 toms very often. The hens all have their own voices and each is a bit different. The cadence I believe is much the key to the realism.

I love using box calls. Just something about making the call to use to harvest that trips my trigger. That said, I am no purist, if it makes turkey talk I will play it.

[hotspur]

I've heard hens that sound like every type of caller, I've heard every type of caller make sounds that sound like real he s

[paboxcall]

For soft, content turkey talk, nothing beats a wooden peg on a small piece of slate.

[tha bugman]

Overall my vote goes to a diaphragm. In the right mouth.

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