What's the 1 call you always have with you in the field?
Mine is an H S Strut mouth call.
H S slate
Primos A Frame Double mouth call
Primos HOOK
Quaker Boy double sided slate. Does everything but gobble.
Cherokee Slim box call. It is an amazing little call, I get more responses from it than all the others combined. Takes 2 hands to operate, the only drawback .
Preston Pittman black diamond 4 reed.
Double reed mouth call. Don't even know why I carry the other calls
Primos "The Freak" glass call that straps to my leg, can use it with one hand. I use a slate type call 95% of the time.
Zink slate. It got me and a teenage boy our birds this spring. (and a few before)
Gooserbat mouth call. I'm running a lot of my OsS this year.
Quaker Boy Grand Old Master. Tony Z
A fatal attraxion glass call by Stony Brock.
Woodhaven Red Wasp diaphragm for me.
lol a tramp stamp slate call I found while hunting public land. The slate had detached from the pot and it appeared that someone had thrown it out. I took it home and glued the slate back in, and all the birds I've called in have been on that call.
Old slate top call I bought from a guy who made them some 30 years ago. Met the guy woods and picked up a call when we got back to our cars. Many a turkey have come to that call that cost me $10.00
I carry about a dozen different mouth calls from lots of makers , I get great results with a high pitch and low(raspy) pitch call mixed together.
I had a Dick Kirby Grave Digger box call that was my go to, but I stinkin lost it this year. Retraced my tracks or so I thought and couldn't locate for anything. So depressing. I looked online and turns out it hasn't been made in years and couldn't even find one for sale. Last used one went for almost $80. It'd had a hand in every bird I've gotten except my first bird and the one I got this spring since I lost it! Very depressed.
Now, I have a Lights Out Osage slate by Wendall Rye I'm very fond of that as a slate is my go to call. It's 2 for 2 and it and my Hooks mouth call got my bird in completely this year. I just have no box call now.
My old standby is Quaker Boy's pro triple mouth call, but I always have a QB twin two, a QB kee kee, and a QB slate with me too.
Sorry to hear about your lost box call, it stinks to lose an old friend like that.
Bob
I have about three dozen calls some custom made for me but I have an old Lohman Thunderdome that's beat to snot but sounds soooo sweet it's my go to every time.
I have had good luck with the same wing bone call for over thirty years and it is all I use. Probably not the best call but better than most people think and kind of fun to make.
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A Hornstra Trumpet....
A Primos "True Double" mouth call and a Primos "Power Crystal" friction call, I have always been fond of Primos turkey calls.
Quaker Boy Old Boss Hen mouth call
My old Primos batty world class slate call. All I know is it drives em batty!