I recently acquired the wings off of a freshly killed hen turkey(hit by a car). I am wanting to make a couple of yelpers out of the bones. I made one about 18 years ago following the little tips in the back of field &stream. I never could run the thing and can't find it now.
At any rate, I know the general concept of doing it. However, I am sure someone on here knows some tricks to making the call alot easier and more realistic sounding. I mainly use diaphragms and probably will continue to.
I just thought it would be a good idea to capitalize on this find. If anybody has any tutorials or tips I sure would appreciate it.
This may help.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goaHYUALIps
A wingbone, IMO, is the most realistic sounding call that you can use. In my experience, a pressured tom will answer a bone when he won't answer any other call. I hunt public land in SE Missouri, and they get tons of pressure from guys just riding around messing with them before season.
I have a matched set of wingbone's that I had made. They are the small wingbone out of a hen, and the barrel is walnut turned on a lathe to match the old turpin call barrels.