What are you carrying on opening day?

[Happy]

I don't even know if I will hunt opening day. Its mainly weather dependent and I kinda like for all the box call squawkers and hooty hooers to flood the roads and woods to give the turkeys a heads up that its game on. If I do go, at most I will take a bunch of diaphragm calls, a yelper of some sort, a scratch box and a pot call. A shotgun and some shells.

[Nathan_Wiles]

Everything but the kitchen sink on opening day. I'll look like a Sherpa guide carrying National Geographic's expedition gear up Everest.
By the end of the season I'm carrying some mouth calls in my pocket, a trumpet, a tube call and a seat cushion.

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[GobbleNut]

Old timers popping in like, "Son, I bubble cluck and fly down cackle on a laurel leaf I pluck off the trail morning of."

I'll have you know I resemble that remark!!   

[ChesterCopperpot]

I'll have you know I resemble that remark!!   

I think Herb McClure mentions an old timer using a laurel leaf in his book Native Turkeys. It was either there or Nunnery's Old Pro. I will say I've tried it. You can get a cluck out of one with some practice. And if a man kills one that way, by god, he's got my attention!


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[roosterstraw]

Going with a crystal mistress, outlaw hen, buster glass, Mac slate. Watkins fiddle box. A diaphragm or two.

[Tail Feathers]

I'll pare it down to a half dozen mouth calls if I can.
I'll have a firedup crystal and a Pat Strawser slate in my vest.
I don't often carry a  box call and none made the opening day list.

[redjones]

S&S short box,Buster red slate,Yingling titanium,couple of JLH strikers and a Ezolt wingbone as of now.

      Greg

[Sixes]

Prudhomme and/or KP trumpet, spring allure ceramic or mabry/durham/Cody slate and a.couple of Gooserbat mouth calls, Tom Swatter and Heckler. Mabry scratch box

[grayfox]

SS short box
Lonnie Sneed Hot hen or Outlaw Hen
Enticer Silver Thunder Extreme Aluminum
Gooserbat Classic Hen mouth call
Mike Yingling Copper/Slate
Fred Cox Red Cedar Scratchbox

[Big Jeremy]

Pots - Yingling copper, Halloran CM, Buster ceramic, Nathan Taylor red slate, and a Sinclair bronzed glass (I like my pots...hard to narrow it down to just 5)

Strikers -probably trim it to just JLH frogwood and tail feather, Herrman gaboon ebony and tulipwood, Remnaric tulipwood, Stuckey dymondwood, Halloran hickory, Fowler black locust, and woodhaven birch laminate.

Boxes - If I take a box (probably won't) it'll be a Mark Six wenge/mineral poplar.

Trumpets - Misfire flamed box elder and Gwaltney desert ironwood trumpets (for in case I need to bump some birds...still mastering...ha!)

Mouth calls - a few Gooserbat bacons, several each of blue and gray ghost from Pinhoti, will Primos signature series

Gun, shells, pruners...and TP!

I always take way too much with me for the first week or so. After that, I'll trim this list in half, or more, and rotate other pots, strikers, boxes, and a Crawdad trumpet in.


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[bowbird87]

Buster red slate persimmon
Dawkins crystal
B. Roberts persimmon aluminum
TJ Johnson short box
Lewis Stowe trumpet
Assortment of strikers JLH Lyman
Houndstooth mouth calls
Harrison hooter
Pappy crow call

[TJR]

Billy Bush Beggin Machine
Mero trumpet
Halloran slate
Kyle Seal crystal
Shotgun and shells


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[saltysenior]

I carried my Tom Gaskins...

[Hook hanger]

Just one call is all I will take into the woods. I like to keep it simple!

[dayna105]

Old timers popping in like, "Son, I bubble cluck and fly down cackle on a laurel leaf I pluck off the trail morning of."


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Reminds me of the first time I met the wife's Grandpa. We were sitting in his yard. He plucks a blade of  grass and starts making turkey yelps. He passed before I every got to know him.