Do you work a box call handle up or down?

[notsure]

I've always worked a box call with the handle (paddle) pointed down. Any advantage to turning the call upside down?

[TauntoHawk]

I've always worked a box call with the handle (paddle) pointed down. Any advantage to turning the call upside down?

Personal preference. I often run the left rail handle down and the right rail handle up on long boxes for no particular reason

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[30_06]

I don't know if it's advantageous or not but I've always worked it with the handle up. Seemed more intuitive and easier to adjust pressure for me.

Esse quam videri

[Marc]

Handle up...  Control the handle right-handed, use the left thumb to control pressure for clucks/purrs or cutting...  Switch if I use the other side of the call.

[HookedonHooks]

Just recently started with boxes and playing the call "upside down" or handle pointed up at first was odd, but with practice, soon felt much more natural. As others said, so much more control and ability to adjust pressure/volume without hesitation.

Went from not really liking box calls because they sounded like box calls, to finding the turkey in them and loving them.

[Gooserbat]

There's not a wrong way. Just practice and find what works best for you.  That's the right way.

[bbcoach]

Handle up, let the weight of the paddle rest on the rails, as the call maker designed it.  I do play the end of the paddle toward me for one rail and the end of the paddle away from me for the other rail.  Normally 2 different distinct hen yelps.  Clucks, cutts and purrs can be controlled on either rail.

[Clydetaylor1]

I play it both ways.

[1iagobblergetter]

I'm inbetween. Usually sideways..

[yelpy]

Both if they will run both ways.

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[TrackeySauresRex]

Both... yelping paddle up. Cutting always down. That's how I've ran it. Just more comfortable for me.

[Spitten and drummen]

I play it both ways as well as conventional. I will also hold the lid and run the box itself. You can get several diffrent hens out of single box call doing this

[Wisgobbler]

Up


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[Greg Massey]

You can get more birds out of it by running it backwards or upside down .. watch Tim Murdock run one this way on youtube or facebook .... Tim Lisa Murdock is how you look him up on facebook...

[JMalin]

Down.  Probably why I didn't kill a bird on my out of state trip to New Mexico