The first..................

[RaspyD]

Perfection Super Double D....or was it the RaspyD??   

[CASH]

Lohman's (sp) Pump Yelper. 2001. Horrible call.

You really bought one of those?  Lol!   

My first call was an HS starter kit, I think it came with a hooter,crow call and a Lil Deuce slate (killed my first turkey with it)and I have no idea where any of it is anymore.

Yep.

[jyoung]

Wow this post really brings back some good memories.  I used my grandpa's old stow-a-way slate with a homemade corn cop striker, his old original Lynch box, his old scratch box, a Primos Limbhanger mouth call, and a MAD Super Aluminator. These were the first calls I ever owned and have retired all of my grandpa's calls  to a shadow box now. Great, great memories!! Thanks!!

Jonathan

[SWAMPFOX]

grandfather got me turkey hunting as well. he gave his lynch jet slate and box call in 1984. also he started me on a wooden pushpin made in va. still have calls on shelf. first call i bought was h.s. strut box call that was black and green camo and never could make it talk turkey. i think that was 1990. oh how times have changed as i approach my 40th bday this year.
swampfox

[Neill_Prater]

Well, this is kind of a trick question. The first call I ever purchased was a Ben Rogers Lee box call, in 1977, the first year spring turkey hunting was legal in the county I then lived in. However, I never did learn to use that thing. In fact, I still own it, and still can't make it sound like a turkey! Back then, you couldn't run to your local store in this part of the country and pick up a call, and the box was the only thing I could find.

The first calls I was successful with were Perfection diaphragms, purchsed through a magazine ad, along with an instructional tape featuring Jim Clay and Tom Duvall. I used one to kill my first turkey in 1979.

[BigGobbler]

I started out with a mouth call I made from a pair of rubber gloves and condoms. Then I always used Quaker boy and now using some hooks.

[Basser69]

Ben Lee, twin hen around 79-80. I still have it and try to take her out at least once a year

[lightsoutcalls]

The first call I bought was a lohman push pin call.  I never used it in the woods, but messed around with it in the house.  The first call I used succesfully on a hunt was a mulberry slate call that I made.  That call still rocks.  I may have to slip it in the vest this year just for nostalgia sake. 

[ElkTurkMan]

A Lohman Diaphram call was my first Turkey call.  I baught back in 1986.

[stinkpickle]

It was a Perfection mouth call back in the mid-80's.  I don't remember what it was called, but it was blue, and I think it was a double reed.   

[nyturkeyduster]

Quaker Boy Beginner's Double way back in 1995 when I was 7 years old.

[CSAW]

Pretty sure I couldn't run it worth a hoot, but it was a diaphragm made by our Principal.  He would occassionally hand a few out in the hallway.  Can't remember the year, late 80's to early 90's. 

[stinkpickle]

Pretty sure I couldn't run it worth a hoot, but it was a diaphragm made by our Principal.  He would occassionally hand a few out in the hallway.  Can't remember the year, late 80's to early 90's. 

I remember those.  I was never really sure that he didn't test them out first.   

[Beretta686]

Lynch Jet Slate I can remember. I have a couple of Ben Lee and an Eddie Salter glass call.

I can remember when woodhaven first came out and I was at a sporting good store in Montgomery and the rep was selling the calls out of his car to the store. I bought my first yellow wasp mouth call that day.

I'm going to take the Eddie Salter glass call to Nashville next week and see if I can get him to sign it.

[stone road turkey calls]

I have a box call that belonged to my grandfather who I never met. was given to me over 40 years ago, i'm so afraid something may happen to it I just leave it in the vault. never used it. first bought call ben lee box in the 70s