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Been hunting some high pressure areas and am thinking about switching to call the gobbler with a gobbler yelper. Not good with mouth calls, so what about a tube call? Or, what...? Thx! :camohat:
A scratch box makes about the best Gobbler yelp that I have found.
I use a turpin short box by Mr. E or John Eddleman. On the left side of the box there is a jake yelp. I use it as a last hope type of call and challenge the gobbler that someone has beat him to the hen. It has worked on occasion. Again it is a last resort type of call to make IMO.
I hunt 90% public land, and high pressured birds. I do almost as much Gobbler/Jake talk as I do hen talk. I use Gobbles, Yelps, Clucks, Kee Yelps, Squeals/Whines, Kee Kees, all of which you need to be able to do to sound like a real gobbler or jake. I use a deep raspy box call or a tongue call to do all my Gobbler or Jake talk.
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Thanks for the responses! I did pick up a hand made box/slate call that is a low raspy
caller off of the bay. I'll try him out very soon... :camohat:
Best I've found is a double glass pot with a hickory striker, just slow down your yelps to get deep sound of a gobbler. Single yelps and two-three yelps are best IMO. I like to play the center of the pot for the yelps and single note clucks.
Several pot call makers make a double sided pot call which usually has glass as the bottom call surface. With a cedar, pecan, persimmon, or other "soft" wood striker, you can make great gobbler clucks. Use a small piece of dry-wall sanding paper, the type w/ the open checkerboard pattern, to roughen up the glass. Pappy makes a great two-sided pot call.
Main thing is how you call, not just the instrument used. I like a Lavender Mountain tube with red Theraband for the most realism.
Roger Parks makes a great gobbler pot call.
I recently got a tube call just for this. Using therabrand yellow on it.