How do you carry your Turkey Calls?

ProAlpine · April 12, 2015, 11:02:00 PM

This will be my first year hunting turkeys and I'm curious how folks carry their calls, along with all the other gear (decoys, etc). I know they make all sorts of vests that have seats incorperated and such, but none of that seems conducive to bowhunting. Any and all advice welcome!
Thanks

Msbow · April 13, 2015, 03:19:00 AM

I just use a vest, but you can get yourself a fanny pack to carry your calls and a sack of some sort for decoys

Jake Scott · April 13, 2015, 06:23:00 AM

This is what I have used for a while now. I' have never liked the vests. You can put it right on your belt, or I use the Velcro strap to put it on my daypack belt. It holds my pot call and three strikers, hoot tube, an assortment of mouth calls and a crow call nicely. In the offseason it's easily reorganized for my predator calls. It's been a very handy little addition and much cheaper than a vest.

http://www.hunterspec.com/content/strut-pouch

Jake

dbd870 · April 13, 2015, 08:40:00 AM

All I run with is a slate I can get it in a jacket pocket.

dhaverstick · April 13, 2015, 09:43:00 AM

I like a vest. I have a place for all my various calls plus room for pruners and a folding saw. Many times I have had to do some last minute clearing of a shooting lane before ole tom showed up.

I made a leather call bag for Roy Mackey, of Lone Star Game Calls, earlier this year. He wanted a bag to hold a couple pot calls and strikers plus have a holster on the side for a box call. He seemed quite pleased with the end result - even sent me a photo of him and a dead Osceola with the bag strapped over his shoulder.

Darren

ProAlpine · April 13, 2015, 11:42:00 AM

Thanks guys. I like the idea of a bag or pouch. That strut pouch looks like it could work!

Turkey season opens in 2 days!

cahaba · April 13, 2015, 02:28:00 PM

I use a vest for gun hunting but use a fanny back for bow hunting.

April 13, 2015, 04:58:00 PM

My shirt pocket in a small spring pack, I only use mouth calls, triple reeds mostly.

tradarcher816 · April 13, 2015, 05:58:00 PM

http://www.bowhunterssuperstore.com/sportsman-blind-pack-carry-system-p-1866571.html

I didn't get mine from the above store, but that's my turkey hunting pack. carries all my gear: blind, decoys, chairs, calls. I keep my calls in a small pouch that holds my pot call, strikers, and an old dip can that I keep my mouth calls in (keeps them minty fresh). All that gear is kind of heavy but the pack balances well.

Trond · April 13, 2015, 06:10:00 PM

We dont. No turkey and no way to hunt them...

Msbow · April 14, 2015, 04:14:00 AM

You could also try a small back pack

PBNJ · April 14, 2015, 09:51:00 AM

Trond,why even bother to answer? Or even read this post??

maineac · April 14, 2015, 10:11:00 AM

I have a vest, and take the seat off when I am bow hunting, or leave it on to use as a knee pad, depending if I am really running and bowing, or using a chair. It is nice to have everything arranged and quickly accessible without looking around or moving to much.

I have also shifted calls into my pockets on the catquiver I carry.

Fritz · April 14, 2015, 10:53:00 AM

I wore a turkey vest for many yrs mostly gun hunting. Now that I just bowhunt, I cram everything into a small back pack and off I go. My decoys have their own carry bags. My blinds are preset, but i could backpack one in, if need be.

April 14, 2015, 11:19:00 AM

I think what Trond is saying, "I would really like to go turkey hunting someday." My sympathies to all trad hunters in Norway.

PBNJ · April 14, 2015, 11:56:00 AM

You are probably right. Yes that is unfortunate that they cannot enjoy what we do every spring.

stagetek · April 14, 2015, 05:31:00 PM

I use the Strut Pouch. Works just fine.

hitman · April 16, 2015, 08:25:00 PM

All I carry is Preston Pittman black diamond mouth calls. I can call with slate calls and box calls, but the mouth calls make it easy to be mobile.

April 17, 2015, 02:20:00 PM

I should be out right now, but my bone mover said give it a couple of days and now I see that it is going to rain for a couple more days after this perfect no wind day. I have a couple of box calls, I can get good reactions with them, but have you ever gotten one of them wet while you had a hot tom going? When it is raining, I can shoot a turkey with a wet arrow, but I cannot call in a tom with a wet box call as it turns out. Mouth calls are also more convenient when the turkeys are getting close. I do think that I get more long range volume on breezy days with the box calls, but when things get going that putting down the call and grabbing the bow movement has messed up my chances on several occasions. It would be less of a deal from a blind, but our high pressured scattered birds require a certain amount of mobility on my part. It is a real here today and gone tomorrow scenario, being portable helps and the less stuff that I carry, the more portable I am.