How do you hold your striker?

[Sir-diealot]

I was just wondering how different people hold there strikers, I hear there are different ways but have not really seen it discussed or demonstrated before. I pretty much just hold mine like I would a pen and put my pinky finger at the outside edge of the pot off the surface and go in a counterclockwise motion for yelps, downward for clucks and putts.

Anybody have a different method?

Oh when you use a wooden striker does it make a difference if you go with or against the grain on the striker?

[misfire]

Like a pencil, but with the index finger extended. This allows me to exert pressure with my thumb on the striker which can change the pitch of the call.

[Sir-diealot]

Like a pencil, but with the index finger extended. This allows me to exert pressure with my thumb on the striker which can change the pitch of the call.

Any difference in the way the grain on wooden strikers work?

[greencop01]

Making contact w/three fingers of my right hand, LIGHTLY. Use my fingers to cluck yelp etc. Use my thumb for pressure.

[nyhunter]

Making contact w/three fingers of my right hand, LIGHTLY. Use my fingers to cluck yelp etc. Use my thumb for pressure.

X2, moving my contact points up and down the striker change the picth

[Sir-diealot]

Making contact w/three fingers of my right hand, LIGHTLY. Use my fingers to cluck yelp etc. Use my thumb for pressure.

X2, moving my contact points up and down the striker change the picth

Thank you both.

[Spitten and drummen]

Thumb pressing into my middle finger with striker in between. Index finger straight out and striker hand resting on pot

[Sir-diealot]

Thumb pressing into my middle finger with striker in between. Index finger straight out and striker hand resting on pot

When you say index finger straight out do you mean going along length of striker or like straight out in the air?

[Tail Feathers]

Thumb pressing into my middle finger with striker in between. Index finger straight out and striker hand resting on pot

Same here.

[Sir-diealot]

Thumb pressing into my middle finger with striker in between. Index finger straight out and striker hand resting on pot

I will ask the same question to you then as you are on right now. When you say index finger straight out do you mean going along length of striker or like straight out in the air? Thanks for the reply by the way.

Same here.

[Greg Massey]

In the heat of the battle , i don't worry about how i hold the striker that much, i just want to make sure i'm playing the music the turkey wants to dance toooo.... 

[Sir-diealot]

In the heat of the battle , i don't worry about how i hold the striker that much, i just want to make sure i'm playing the music the turkey wants to dance toooo.... 

lol Yes but we all have to have that starting point to get that pot to play the tune.

[Greg Massey]

In the heat of the battle , i don't worry about how i hold the striker that much, i just want to make sure i'm playing the music the turkey wants to dance toooo.... 

lol Yes but we all have to have that starting point to get that pot to play the tune.

Just keep trying , you will get the hang of it after 40 years of hunting .....

[Sir-diealot]

In the heat of the battle , i don't worry about how i hold the striker that much, i just want to make sure i'm playing the music the turkey wants to dance toooo.... 

lol Yes but we all have to have that starting point to get that pot to play the tune.

Just keep trying , you will get the hang of it after 40 years of hunting .....

I have a hang of it my way, but there are always other ways of doing things, some better and some not, I am just not arrogant enough to think my way is necessarily the best way just because I have been doing it for a long time. You know, it is called learning.

[shatcher]

What spitting and drumming said.  Will Primos has an excellent youtube out there on how to do it.  Use your thumb to press the striker against the first knuckle of your middle finger.  The striker will rest behind the last knuckle of your index finger.