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Beginners calls

Started by RustyBarrels, April 20, 2024, 01:13:33 PM

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Sir-diealot

I still have one, a friend ruined the original by conditioning it against the grain I had already established, it never sounded right after that.

 
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. Arnold Schwarzenegger

John Koenig:
"It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream."

Marc

Tough to beat a box call for a beginning hunter....  There is not an easier call to sound like a turkey on with almost no skill...  Push-pin might be a bit easier, but not much, and a box call is a lot more versatile...  Both are easier than a pot call or mouth call...

I carry a box call with me every hunt, that just seems to elicit a response from birds.  They just seem to like that sound.
Did I do that?

Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

GobbleNut

Quote from: callmakerman on April 22, 2024, 11:33:47 AM
Quote from: RustyBarrels on April 22, 2024, 11:08:38 AM
Quote from: callmakerman on April 21, 2024, 01:43:50 PMPaul Butski two-sided glass over slate and a Butski Quad cutter mouth call.

Dag on, when I graduated to a quad I was in over my head.
How tough was it to learn on a 4 reed?
Well first off I didn't purchase the calls, they were gifts for my birthday. Being this was to be my first season going it alone and they were all I had to use I just practiced until I thought that I sounded like a turkey. It also helped that I would try the mouth call calling to turkey's on birds I couldn't hunt. The quad just seemed to be a good fit for me.

Started using the Butski "Cuttin'Caller IV" (the four-reed cutter he made) back in the 1980's when Paul was on his winning streak in the national calling contests. It was a great call and not at all hard to use. The reason was because it was constructed of thin latex/proph material rather than layers of thicker material. That makes all the difference in the world as to how difficult a multi-reeded call is to use. Beginners, in particular, who want to try those types of calls, would be wise to stick with calls constructed primarily of thin reed materials.

Another note: "The problem" with those types of calls with several reeds is that with each additional reed added, the harder it is to make the final product have a consistent sound from one call to the next.   

callmakerman

Quote from: GobbleNut on April 27, 2024, 09:31:28 AM
Quote from: callmakerman on April 22, 2024, 11:33:47 AM
Quote from: RustyBarrels on April 22, 2024, 11:08:38 AM
Quote from: callmakerman on April 21, 2024, 01:43:50 PMPaul Butski two-sided glass over slate and a Butski Quad cutter mouth call.

Dag on, when I graduated to a quad I was in over my head.
How tough was it to learn on a 4 reed?
Well first off I didn't purchase the calls, they were gifts for my birthday. Being this was to be my first season going it alone and they were all I had to use I just practiced until I thought that I sounded like a turkey. It also helped that I would try the mouth call calling to turkey's on birds I couldn't hunt. The quad just seemed to be a good fit for me.

Started using the Butski "Cuttin'Caller IV" (the four-reed cutter he made) back in the 1980's when Paul was on his winning streak in the national calling contests. It was a great call and not at all hard to use. The reason was because it was constructed of thin latex/proph material rather than layers of thicker material. That makes all the difference in the world as to how difficult a multi-reeded call is to use. Beginners, in particular, who want to try those types of calls, would be wise to stick with calls constructed primarily of thin reed materials.

Another note: "The problem" with those types of calls with several reeds is that with each additional reed added, the harder it is to make the final product have a consistent sound from one call to the next.   
Mine was the quad IV and man did I like that call.

ColemantownHC

Lynch World Champion Box and Quaker Boy Old Boss Hen diaphragm were my first calls when I was 9 years old circa 1990. Almost got the quaker boy taken away at school several times for clucking on it in class.

perrytrails

Quaker boy double reed
Lynch one sider
Paul Butski double glass.

Paul was at a local seminar back in the early 90's
Had a box full of double glass pots and a box of strikers.
He picked a pot going through several and matched a striker to it, signed the back of the pot. $20

Unknown how many birds were called in with that pot, I was offered a lot of money for it many times.

bbcoach

Primos Ol Betsy with the laminated striker.  Still my favorite.  It has been the demise of countless gobblers and is responsible for my Grand Slam.

Happy

Lohman turkey tracer was my first I believe. Followed by a lohman scratch box and a quaker boy old boss hen diaphragm

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ChesterCopperpot

I can't remember the brand or model as I gave it away to a new hunter many moons ago, but it was a slate in a plastic pot. Thing sounded great. Kind of wish I still had it


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JeffC

Lynch box, bought in the 80s, think it had a battleship on 1 side of box? Lost in woods, wish I still had. Bought another and never had same response from birds as original. 
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Tnandy

Mine was a Primos Power Crystal. Killed well over 20 birds with it. Was walking on my sidewalk at the house digging it out of my pocket for some reason and dropped it and broke it. Never was satisfied with another one like I was that one. Great call

Yoder409

Quote from: JeffC on May 24, 2024, 08:07:20 AMLynch box, bought in the 80s, think it had a battleship on 1 side of box? Lost in woods, wish I still had. Bought another and never had same response from birds as original. 

The original Primos Battleship was no joke.

That call will bring gobblers in open country from farther away than you can hear them gobble back.  Watched it happen twice in two days on west Texas Rios.
PA elitist since 1979

The good Lord ain't made a gobbler I can't kill.  I just gotta be there at the right time.....  on the day he wants to die.

silvestris

Morgan Caller, I think it was in 1975.
"[T]he changing environment will someday be totally and irrevocably unsuitable for the wild turkey.  Unless mankind precedes the birds in extinction, we probably will not be hunting turkeys for too much longer."  Ken Morgan, "Turkey Hunting, A One Man Game

KYTurkey07

My first call was a Lynch World Champion box call. I actually called in my first turkey with it by accident playing around.

LMO

Lynch Foolproof Box and a Larry Norton Shark diaphragm