Sorry I called you John, Josh. My eyes are so bad, I did not even see your name on that pot.
You can call me John, Jake St. John, or Mr. E. I'm the old guy that makes very old style Turpin and Stribling calls with a yawk sound. Mr. Jack Ellis taught me how to turkey hunt here on the mighty Mississippi River when I moved to Greenville in 1973. He got an original Tom Turpin Shortbox from him when he came back from WWII. Not long after that he had a stroke and he let me use it for 13 years. In 1987 I made my first Stribling. Hooked on call making after that. Mr. Jack had a philosophy on calling turkeys. (I have never practiced the third phase) "He said , one day that old turkey will work and come to the YIP sound of this fool proof Lynch, and not the Turpin. The next day he will work and come to the YAWK sound of this Turpin, and not the Cost style Lynch. When he won't come to either, you slip in there behind a big tree 40 yards from him and shoot him off the limb at first light." I carry so many boxes to the woods (Even a McKamey Onesider) that I look like Santa Clause opening his pack. Good luck on your call making. Hunt ethically and on his terms. Above all, have fun with him. Mr. E