What is your favorite or what you do consider to be the best surface on a pot call? I am looking to get a quality call and I'm just curious what everyone likes...
Thanks!
Slate
Crystal
ceramic
I have an aluminum that I love. Sounds great, super easy to use, loud if I want it to be, and never needs conditioning.
Quote from: taylorjones20 on April 29, 2015, 09:53:50 PM
What is your favorite or what you do consider to be the best surface on a pot call? I am looking to get a quality call and I'm just curious what everyone likes...
Thanks!
I like em all.
I have probably killed more with crystal and ceramic than any.
Good ceramic calls are hard to find.
Daybreak, stumpy and Jay Ritchie are the best in this department
Any halloran crystal
Any platz call
Lonnie Sneed makes a.great slate
I'll throw a copper vote out there.
Lol your going to get more confused asking this question. Everyone likes what they like. Your gonna have to try them for yourself to see what you like. I'd suggest glass. It plays pretty easy and does good in dry or damp conditions with the right striker. The striker makes a HUGE difference in your calling.
You're going to need one of each, but I would start with slate. It's the easiest to run imo..
David Halloran crystal
Slate....they don't make it anymore .. lohman thunder dome... I have 2 of them.... sometimes you can find one on ebay. Its a high pitch slate with carbon strike.
Depends on what I'm doing, I carry both a crystal and a slate.
Crystal and slate
Best one I heard was a Tony Reynolds Carolina Assassin! That thing is bad to the bone...and pure turkey.
It's crystal over Slate double sided.
Toss up for me between ceramic or copper.
Ceramic
I have about every imaginable surface there is including a custom Carbide pot. I always seem to carry the same 2 though. A Lights Out slate and a Primos Power Crystal. I have killed more turkeys with that Power Crystal than all the others combined.
Roy
Glass and slate. I use glass a lot for blind calling or if it's windy, slate the rest of the time
My favorite and best sounding call is a small turtle shell with crystal. I had a custom that never was right..the sounding board didn't work and the call was flat. So I took the top pc of round crystal out of it and glued it onto the turtle shell with Bondo..fit perfect.
I can wad about half a handkerchief into it and really get some soft, quiet, calls. Take it out and get loud raspy yelps with good double note. Best and easiest purrs of all my calls also.
favorite so far is slate. I own slate, crystal, copper and aluminum. The copper and aluminum are nice because you can run them in a light rain with a plastic tipped striker. For whatever reason though, I always get responses to this one slate call I have. It may just be because I use it the most haha. I think turkey calls are a crap shoot though. If they sound somewhat like a hen then it will be the gobblers mood to whether he will answer or not. For me, the best call is the one I can run easiest which now is a diaphragm since I don't have to use my hands. My approach is, use my diaphragm combined with a slate to sound like multiple hens. If I get no response I will move on to some other calls.
if i had to pick only one, it would be slate.
Slate, crystal, glass, aluminum, copper, they all have pros and con's. Find what you like best because your personal confidence trumps the opinions of others.
I've always preferred glass but my Yingling copper will see some action this year without a doubt.
slate is hard to beat IMO
Always been glass and ceramic until this year.
This year I really liked copper and titanium.
My birds wanted a high pitched call this year.
Glass, not that I think it sounds the best but my birds will answer glass over another surface probably 3/1.
My favorite is slate, but I really want to try a copper! My slate may have lost its mojo, birds do not seem to be responding as well!
I have a Supreme "Double Suicide" by Steve Reeves, glass over a mini slate and both sides are sweet sounding. It takes a while to get, but they do sound sweet. My favorite so far, I will keep trying new pots. Try a few and make up your mind then. Good luck, call collecting is fun.
I feel as tho I am above average running a pot style friction call and personally I have never found one that replicates the sound of a wild turkey better than a high end Cody Slate.
Quote from: Gooserbat on April 30, 2015, 11:19:50 PM
Slate, crystal, glass, aluminum, copper, they all have pros and con's. Find what you like best because your personal confidence trumps the opinions of others.
Well said!