Best longbox

[blackforesthp]

Who do you feel makes the best long box currently?  Best wood combinations?  Let the games begin.

[Bowguy]

It depends what you mean by best. Best sounding to our ear, best looking or best meat call. One of the longboxes I have from McKamey is cedar/butternut. I bought it secondhand and I have a few others I really like better soundwise. Bloodwood/mineral poplar is my fav there but that cedar box I cared the least about so it came w me relatively often. That thing is deadly on turkeys, great meat call. SS makes some real good ones too. I've got a redheart/poplar that sounds awesome.

[blackforesthp]

I was just starting a conversation.

I have a SS Ipe over black Limba that produces some killer high pitched kee kees.  Just wondering what everyone else thinks sounds the best.

[sixbird]

Pretty hard to beat Mike Lapp or Ed Terefenko...Ernie Fetters makes a good one for a reasonable price. Couldn't go wrong with a Marlin Watkins either...

[Happy hooker]

I don't have a ton of experience with long boxes but I've cycled through quite a few last two years
It's hard to beat a Steve Mann cedar over anything,,I made sure to get two cedar over butternut s
And Dan Wittenberg is a true instrument builder  way,way,way,under used.

[vt35mag]

I played a pile of bloodwood over mineral poplar and bloodwood over butternut long boxes Jeff McKamey had at turkey trot. The mineral poplar is a great call, but I went home with a butternut.

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[wvlimbhanger]

I've got a few from Preacherman that are tough to crowd.....but my best one is a snakewood butternut from Marlin Watkins.   

[vaplowboy]

 Steve Mann makes a good one. I have several of his including Do-dats.

[TauntoHawk]

Best is already relative opinion based on the user but once you factor time to aquire and cost it's even more diluted.

For example is a call "better" if it takes 3 yrs and $300 to aquire vs a call that can be had in a few weeks for $125 and calling in birds over those 3 seasons.. again thats going to vary by who's asking, and what you already have.

I usually answer these questions with an option that is reasonable in price and availability without sacrificing any sound qualities. For a long box based on those criteria I'd be hard pressed to recommend anyone over ernie fetter

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[Browning87]

Best could get you so many answers but I will tell you my favorite is a bloodwood/butternut from twisting creek!

[MDTOM84]

Anything from Marlin Watkins, Jeff McKamey or Mike Lapp

[nitro]

My top 3 choices

1. Steve Mann
2. Steve Mann
3. Steve Mann

I have a bunch of paddle calls and I hunt with a Mannmade.

Dawkins, Harwell, and Lapp make great calls too.. I just prefer Steve's calls and have killed a bunch of Gobblers from Coast to Coast and Mexico with a Mannmade. Go with what you know.

[jed clampett]

I have a Scott Witter ipe over butternut I got in the fall and haven't had a chance to hunt it yet..it sounds great

[tracker#1]

I have a Scott Witter Ipe/Butternut, Ernie Fetters Bolivarian Rosewood/Butternut, Snakewood/Wormy chestnut all sound turkey.  Great callmakers to deal with, real gentlemen. Each spent time with me (lessons) showing me sounds a long box can produce. Like taking the flock with you into the woods.....

[Greg Massey]

1. Marlin Watkins Hop Horn Bean over cherry from his home place ... 2. Ernie Fetters Bolivian Rosewood over Black Walnut 3. Scott Witter IPE over Butternut ...