The best 2 pot calls thread got me thinking.
If you could only take 1 pot call call (double siders count) and 3 strikers for a hunt that required you to be at your lightest load possible .......what would you bring with you? Let's say its a location where Easterns and Rios are the prey.
Mine would be a gray slate with a hickory, dymondwood and ipe striker.
Lonnie Mabry cedar slate and a Lyman green dymondwood, Halloran persimmon and a Halloran yellowheart strikers
A trumpet, gun, and 1 shell.
Quote from: BTH on January 29, 2019, 09:46:36 AM
The best 2 pot calls thread got me thinking.
If you could only take 1 pot call call (double siders count) and 3 strikers for a hunt that required you to be at your lightest load possible ..
one pot call would be my copper over slate ,,, 3 strikers fiber rod , dymond wood ,black locust
Screamin Demon II, strikers would be carbon tip for wet weather, a solid maple I whittled, and a dymondwood.
Crystal Screamer, Fowler Snakewood, Fowler Black Locust, and Fowler Hickory.
I will not limit myself when it comes to calls. I normally carry 4 different pots, 8 different strikers, a box and several mouth calls. I want a variety and I'll continue to try combos until the turkeys respond. I believe turkeys are like fish, keep changing up until they respond. Some days they will gobble at anything, other days.... I personally will leave other things out of my vest then go to the woods with only 1 call. Besides calls aren't heavy enough to leave at home.
Quote from: bbcoach on January 29, 2019, 12:11:13 PM
I will not limit myself when it comes to calls. I normally carry 4 different pots, 8 different strikers, a box and several mouth calls. I want a variety and I'll continue to try combos until the turkeys respond. I believe turkeys are like fish, keep changing up until they respond. Some days they will gobble at anything, other days.... I personally will leave other things out of my vest then go to the woods with only 1 call. Besides calls aren't heavy enough to leave at home.
It is just a hypothetical situation
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Eddie Wynne double-sider glass/slate with Lyman dymondwood and snakewood strikers (maybe add a mouth call)
Quote from: MDTOM84 on January 29, 2019, 09:55:19 AM
Lonnie Mabry cedar slate and a Lyman green dymondwood, Halloran persimmon and a Halloran yellowheart strikers
Yes sir! Lonnie mabry cedar slate with stuckey yellowheart striker
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Ralph Chandler slate in an Osage pot with an SS Calls one piece Dymondwood striker.
If it was going to be damp or raining it would be a Dawkins crystal in a plastic pot with a Yingling fiber striker if it was going to be nice I would go with the Atomic 13 with diamond wood.
I'd use an atomic 13 as well. Diamondwood striker
My pick for a caller would be a Yingling copper in a cast pot. It would cover all conditions either wet, dry or humid. For strikers Lyman red cedar, Yingling fiber rod and Lyman osage.
Kenny Morgan friction box , Bud and betty slate, and Spirit Yelper wing bone
Stumpy ceramic,,,dymondwood striker.
Lonnie Mabry walnut slate with Mabry Yellow Heart, Hickory and Tulipwood strikers.
Paul Hicks Osage glass/dylamux striker
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Stumpy ceramic &
Lyman hickory
Lyman hickory (in case I dropped the 1st)
**these posts / threads are always a "Sophie's Choice" kinda question... :-\
Walnut slate over glass I made
Chestnut Ridge Dymondwood
Tuscarora Legend purpleheart
Blodgett flared mesquite
It's in the pic!
My CODY World Class Slate w/Light Hickory Striker
All I would need.
MK M GOBL
Lonnie Sneed green glass Outlaw Hen - Harold Fowler striker that I can't remember what wood
Quote from: ol bob on January 29, 2019, 09:59:48 AM
A trumpet, gun, and 1 shell.
I like your style ol bob.
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If it had to be one, it'd be my Doug Morgan Yellowheart slate with Harold Fowler Pacific Dogwood, Fowler Snakewood, and Dad's Purpleheart strikers.
Bill Lyman Cedar slate his diamond wood striker and any two of his other strikers that I have
Halloran Crystal Mistress - Dymondwood, Black Locust, and Ebony strikers
That may not be the best call, but a good one that I have the most confidence in. I would choose a mouth call if I could only choose one call. I used to never carry a pot call with me and did just fine. I usually always start with a mouth call but want to have at least a glass and slate call with me in case the bird likes something different.
Quote from: bobk on January 29, 2019, 03:49:43 PM
My pick for a caller would be a Yingling copper in a cast pot. It would cover all conditions either wet, dry or humid. For strikers Lyman red cedar, Yingling fiber rod and Lyman osage.
Good points Bob I would choose Osage as well and the carbon rod striker but I think I would have to have a blood wood with me also
Quote from: sbbow on January 29, 2019, 06:30:52 PM
Paul Hicks Osage glass/dylamux striker
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Brad Roberts cedar green slate with Lyman bloodwood, tulipwood, and ipe strikers.
Grey slate. Fiber rod,one piece dymondwood, hickory
Lonnie Sneed Hot Hen and Cox Wingbone
Nice day: Lonnie Mabry cedar or walnut slate. Halloran hickory, mabry butternut ( I think), mabry purple heart.
Damp day: TL. Jones bronzed glass or stumpy ceramic. Yingling fiber rod, Halloran blood wood, stumpy dymondwood.
Pouring rain: screamin demon 2 with perfection apple wood/carbon and baublit blood wood/acrylic tip strikers.
Man thats tough. I would take my Paul platz glass over aluminum in a zebrawood pot with a derric stuckey straight tip macassar ebony , bill lyman tulipwood and fred cox green dymond wood.
Run n Gun, a few diaphrams & a tube around my neck ,Mike
If dry out then hard to say, so many I love that I have gotten since I got here. I think my Mac green slate would be a sure thing as well as a Red slate and alternate days with Stumpy Ceramic, Footballer Anodized Black Aluminum and I am not sure about the third, have some coming in I want to hear first. Hallorin Ipe, Stuckey Tulipwood and either a Neal Diamond or an Stuckey Wenge.
Wet would be my Mad Super Crystal and Quackerboy Trifecta. Strikers would be Halloran Ipe, Sinclair Waterproof and a Diamond wood from Neal. Don't want to take any of my fancy calls out in the rain, sorry.
Twisted Sister, Halloran purpleheart and yellowheart strikers and a Lyman Dymalux.
Persimmon Hill anodized aluminum over glass in walnut pot with dymondwood, purple heart and macassar ebony strikers.
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A Frank Cox Slate Wood with Ivory Inlay.
Lonzo anodized aluminum in black acrylic pot.
Corder osage glass over slate with his dymondwood striker (I cant find another striker that comes close on that call)