Favotite turkey calls?

March 28, 2013, 09:23:00 AM

Primos Mini Sonic Dome 2 or 3 reeds. Fit my narrow palate perfectly! I also carry a slate call ( different brands) with an osage striker and a very high pitched box call from MAD. Trying to master the "Haint" but no luck so far.

rolltidehunter · March 28, 2013, 10:01:00 AM

to me turkey calls are very personal. i have spent more money on turkey junk than i have my traditional addiction. kinda sad.....

i lean more towards custom call makers box calls, pot calls, and mouth calls.

lonnie sneed hot hen slate and green glass pots

primos lil heart breaker box. i have killed many turkeys with that box

RC · March 28, 2013, 10:36:00 AM

I got a Robertson Brothers slate that is sweet as well as a call JoeBuck made. They both killers and I use them from my blind. when I`m running and longbowing I use whatever diaphram is on sale at walmart.RC

no · March 28, 2013, 11:32:00 AM

what ever the bird I am working likes, carry them all. Mike

Adam S. Daugherty · March 28, 2013, 11:50:00 AM

If using mouth calls it all depends on the individual. When I first started running mouth calls it didnt really matter to me, but then as I got into calling competitions that all changed. In the woods I run a 2 reed set back combo cut call made by Shane Hendershot of Mindgames Custom Calls for about everything from purrs, whines, plain yelping, tree calls, clucks. If conditions require some hard cutting and the so forth I carry a 3 reed combo cut call made by Hendershot. I also use a 2 reed ghost cut call for kee-kees and other various soft turkey sounds. I also carry a glass over slate round call made by Pat Strawser.

Dirtybird mentioned David Halloran. He can put some turkey in a friction call for sure.

jonsimoneau · March 28, 2013, 03:44:00 PM

Last season I called in birds for myself my wife and my friends using David Halloran pot calls. Especially the crystal mistress.

Iowabowhunter · March 28, 2013, 05:23:00 PM

I like my Brossie Triple Reed mouth call, and still trying to find a nice hand-made slate call. I will use both regardless of if I'm in a pop-up blind or natural ground blind.

T-Bowhunter · March 28, 2013, 05:42:00 PM

I use a slate call when working a turkey, when I blind call I us a box call.

wapiti792 · March 28, 2013, 05:53:00 PM

El cheapo slate from Walley World, a double reed diaphragm call, and one of Joe Bucks scratch calls are about it. If they are reall close I can purr in a pinch with nothing as diaphragm calls are a bit loud to purr at spitting distance.

jonsimoneau · March 28, 2013, 11:05:00 PM

I gotta get better with the diaphragms. Still learning from the good turkey hunters on this site. Thanks guys!

Mike Gerardi · March 28, 2013, 11:56:00 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by jonsimoneau:
Last season I called in birds for myself my wife and my friends using David Halloran pot calls. Especially the crystal mistress.

Just pick up that call a couple of weeks ago. Love it!

TRAP · March 29, 2013, 01:48:00 AM

HS Double D diaphram, and a Woodhaven slate call with Primos custom strikers. Coyote locator. And a homemade boat paddle box that I got as a gift from Mike Breslin here on TG for shocking a gobble out of those stubborn late morning longbeards.

I stay on the cheap side of calls mainly because I have a habit of planting them all over Central Missouri. Come to think of it, I've planted a couple in Kansas also. I dont know why. I just lose em.

Trap

Cyclic-Rivers · March 29, 2013, 07:18:00 AM

I hate trying to use a mouth call with a chew in

seriously though, I like mouth and slates although I think I need new ones of both. :rolleyes:

Tree Killer · March 29, 2013, 07:27:00 AM

I use mouth calls, box calls, and numerous slates and other friction type calls.

Been making these wingbones for quite a few people, so I hope some folks call in some birds with one of my wingbone yelpers this spring.

I made myself one of these using a combination of turkey bone and deer antler...to my ear it has a really sweet tone, so I'm going to use it this spring for fun!

toddster · March 29, 2013, 10:10:00 AM

I love turkey hunting period, close second to bowfishing. I have two, (TWO) vest full of calls. I have found like many of you that they all have there place.
box call, quick, reliable, great for wind days and long distance. con, bulky
slate, reliable, easy to use, versitial, great go to. con-like box not hands free and keep dry
mouthcall- versitial and hands free, con- longtime to learn properly
For me my go to call if I could only have one would be my "Tom Gaskin" scratch box, it is light, compact and more importantly, I have called more turkeys in with it than any other and only call that brought in hang up birds.

hogless · March 29, 2013, 01:02:00 PM

A lench world champion a push button call and a wing bone yelper

tradarcher816 · March 29, 2013, 08:37:00 PM

My favorite is a tramp stamp slate call my friend broke and just gave me. I reglued the slate to the bowl and have had luck with it ever since!

wihill · March 29, 2013, 08:51:00 PM

Box call for locating and when it's windy/nasty out, and slates for stringing them in.

I've tried using a mouth call for YEARS, and I just can't do it. Can't figure it out, and even worse when someone has tried to show me what I was doing wrong I showered them and made some terrible sound. He still talks to me, just not within spitting distance and certainly makes sure I don't have a call in.

kbetts · March 29, 2013, 08:54:00 PM

Mouth calls: Quaker Boy hands down for me
Box: Lynch Fool Proof and a new tiny double side from Brookside
Pot: cheap plastic Quaker Boy that just sings and two of my own making from a kit
Push button: Quaker Boy waterproof

And I have to have my HS gobbler shaker

Knawbone · March 29, 2013, 09:08:00 PM

Nice job on those wing bones Treekiller, Iv' been shown how to make one a long time ago. Maybe you could do a build along for our fellow hunters. I would, but I'm not sure I remember exactly. I need my memory jogged. HINT, Hint. Really like those feathers you painted on those.