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Longboxes and longbeards

Started by packmule, January 14, 2020, 11:25:17 AM

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packmule

For me there is nothing better than chasing longbeards with a longbox. If you have a photo post it up!

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Happy hooker

Cool,,what are the longbox in each photo

packmule

#1: Burrville Bomber from Tim Fralick (walnut over butternut)
#2 and #3: Longbox from Dan Wittenberg (red cedar over butternut)
#4: Longbox I built (jatoba over alder)
#5: Longbox from Tim Bullock (yellowheart over alder)

Happy hooker

I had a good idea it was a Wittenberg in a couple that's why I asked,,most underrated longbox maker out there i will never sell or trade mine.

mtns2hunt

Everyone wants to be successful - some just need help.

paboxcall

Here's 2019 using a Ralph Snodgrass mini boat paddle, both hunts went start to finish. Should be a third picture, but after watching him for 15 minutes at 50+ yards he broke to come and in, and I promptly missed. Turkeys do that to me.



A quality paddle caller will most run itself.  It just needs someone to carry it around the woods. Yoder409
Over time...they come to learn how little air a good yelper actually requires. ChesterCopperpot

packmule

Quote from: paboxcall on January 14, 2020, 03:27:51 PM
Here's 2019 using a Ralph Snodgrass mini boat paddle, both hunts went start to finish. Should be a third picture, but after watching him for 15 minutes at 50+ yards he broke to come and in, and I promptly missed. Turkeys do that to me.





Beautiful! Is the body on that Snodgrass call made from chestnut?

paboxcall

Congrats on your successes Pack - I go back and forth between a boat paddle and a mini boat paddle, but here lately its been this one and the long box stays in the truck, but there are days I'll carry both.

Yep, it is reclaimed chestnut with a mac ebony lid. The finest sounding mini boat I've ever heard. Here's a close up:



Here's my Snozz long box which has accounted for a pile of birds over the last 15 - 20 years many of which I was calling and another shooting. Its maple over persimmon and he only made three in this combo (Ralph asks to buy this one back every time I see him, LOL).

A quality paddle caller will most run itself.  It just needs someone to carry it around the woods. Yoder409
Over time...they come to learn how little air a good yelper actually requires. ChesterCopperpot

packmule

Quote from: Happy hooker on January 14, 2020, 02:54:53 PM
I had a good idea it was a Wittenberg in a couple that's why I asked,,most underrated longbox maker out there i will never sell or trade mine.

Totally agree. I don't think anyone builds one that sounds more realistic.

packmule

Quote from: paboxcall on January 14, 2020, 03:48:03 PM
Congrats on your successes Pack - I go back and forth between a boat paddle and a mini boat paddle, but here lately its been this one and the long box stays in the truck, but there are days I'll carry both.

Yep, it is reclaimed chestnut with a mac ebony lid. The finest sounding mini boat I've ever heard. Here's a close up:



Here's my Snozz long box which has accounted for a pile of birds over the last 15 - 20 years many of which I was calling and another shooting. Its maple over persimmon and he only made three in this combo (Ralph asks to buy this one back every time I see him, LOL).



Awesome!

Sir-diealot

Nice pictures guys, got my first Fiddle Paddle from Marlin in August, hoping to have good success with it. I also have a Russle Beard that I have gotten responses from but have not gotten a turkey with yet. (Players fault, not the calls)
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