Favorite/Best Pot Surface?

[tomstopper]

Ceramic

[rtsj]

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

[jblackburn]

Glass and slate. I use glass a lot for blind calling or if it's windy, slate the rest of the time

[hoyt]

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.

[Bigeclipse]

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.

[Muzzy61]

if i had to pick only one, it would be slate.

[Gooserbat]

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.

[Snoodsniper]

I've always preferred glass but my Yingling copper will see some action this year without a doubt.

[ridgerunner]

slate is hard to beat IMO

[West Augusta]

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.

[Thundermtn]

Glass, not that I think it sounds the best but my birds will answer glass over another surface probably 3/1.

[Dtrkyman]

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!

[zelmo1]

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.

[bghunter777]

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.

[Rio Fan]

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!