Thought a few of you call makers on here might have either known him or met him. Just got word that Mr. Scobey has passed on at the age of 79. I just saw him at the Harrisburg show a couple months ago, and he frequented a lot of the outdoor shows. He always made one of the prettiest hand carved calls at an unbelieveable price, and was one of the nicest people you would ever meet.
The waterfowling world lost a legend and a pioneer for sure.
RIP Mr. Scobey
Sorry to hear that, I have been a big admirer of his carved calls for some time
I met him once. Nice guy. How about some of you that have his calls post thiem as sort of a tribute?
Mr Scobey was a great man and sure fire callmaker. He told me once that you have to protect your assets when you make calls. He was so right, he would laugh about some of the calls he saw over the years, how they tended to have a head start on him and the older guys in callmaking. Sure gonna miss seeing him in Sanburg for the CCAA contest.
Pappy, funny you mention protecting your assets. Mr. Scobey had a booth every year at the Eastern Outdoor Show. His calls were ridiculously low priced, but someone made away with his cash box from the booth. My only thought was that I couldn't believe someone would take all that money from a great guy who obviously loved making calls and put all that effort into a beautiful product and couldn't have made hardly any money on them. That carving had to take him a few hours per call, and I think he charged like $35 a call. Booths at Harrisburg cost $1500, and materials for the calls aren't free.
Labor of love.