Quail Call / locator

[Greg Massey]

Who makes a good quail call?  For both quail calling / hawk squealing?

[Dukejb]

For western quail Jim Matthews makes great calls. His mountain quail call could work for bobwhite, but I'll be interested to see other suggestions.

[Bill]

Who makes a good quail call?  For both quail calling / hawk squealing?

Some guys use teal whistles or those little stamped inverted cone calls, but---at least for bobwhite quail---but the best sound I have found is a Palmer's quail call (if you can fine one).  Like trumpets and wingbones, they are a suction call.

IMG_0525 by Bill Janssen, on Flickr

[vthokie7227]

Not sure if he sells them, but Ralph Permar makes one. He's got a few videos on his website of them. Like all Ralph's work, they're top notch.

You can do a pretty darn good quail call on a Buck Gardner 6-in-1 whistle. For the money ($6), they're hard to beat.