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Offline mastevt

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What's your first call ya ever made?
« on: May 26, 2011, 04:08:55 PM »
My first post got me thinking and looking, and sure enough, I got a pic of my first ever call.  Post up pics of your first ever call ya made, if ya have one that is.

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Offline Ghost Maker Calls

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Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2011, 04:42:05 PM »
Here are the first 3 calls I made.  The first one is in a case I made out of a 1/2 sawn white birch log.  You close it up and it looks like a piece of wood.  The last is a trumpet I made with some tenon cutters I use to make log furniture.  The brown on the edge is actually the bark of the hickory branch I used. I think these were made around 2001. 





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Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2011, 08:05:58 PM »
I don't make calls but here is the link to my first striker.

http://www.osageroost.com/forums/index.php?topic=7127.0

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Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2011, 10:19:46 PM »
I don't remember if these were the first, but they are certainly in the first half dozen.
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Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2011, 08:27:40 AM »
These are #1 and #2....#1 didn't sound too sparky, but #2 actually sounded pretty good. Took it to the woods on the opening of the season that year, on the youth hunt. Called this bird in for a good friend of mines son. It was his first bird, on the first morning one of my calls hit the woods....We got set up in a good spot, and it was over 5 minutes after flydown. 4 longbeards came in, and he dropped this one at 15 yards....It was a good morning.







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Offline mastevt

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Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2011, 05:57:25 PM »
that is sweet!  Don't get any better than that!
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Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2011, 03:37:45 PM »
Here's my first, an Amboyna Burl slate call. No lathe work, just a drill press and dremel.
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Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2011, 04:19:25 PM »
Double glass in a flower pot saucer 1980, and a two piece wingbone from a fall hen I killed 1992.  Friend has the round, call I have the wingbone.

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Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2011, 11:01:48 AM »
The two peice wingbone with the lanyard and carved mushrooms was my first turkey caller I made. The musrooms were made by Larry Gresser.       
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Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2011, 10:45:12 PM »
Wish I had a picture, heck, wish I still had the call. I dont know where it went, but I made a long box out of mahogony with a maple paddle. That thing rocked. The next 50 or so werent near as good *aah*
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Offline S.C.C

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Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
« Reply #10 on: June 13, 2011, 05:45:15 AM »
First scratchbox and shortbox callers made with pocket knife and sandpaper in 1980.did make a few a couple years earlyer but these were the first fancy ones... *lol*

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Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2011, 08:44:25 PM »
Here is #2 about 25 years ago

and notch #35 - 2010 season
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Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
« Reply #12 on: June 13, 2011, 08:57:22 PM »
Lots of hash marks on that one.
Looks good.
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Offline firedup

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Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
« Reply #13 on: June 14, 2011, 09:10:24 PM »
Dont' have any pics of real early calls / the first call. It was a poplar glued up body with a cherry lid tho.   Basically a glued up simple hunting call.  I did find a few pics of early calls tho. Once I finally got a little more serious about call building I started trying to keep better track of things.
You guys are way to serious. Here is a call a I knocked together while waiting on a hunting buddy early one morning.  20 minutes work tops.  *peep* I wrote on it "The ugly box...first box to kill with sight AND sound" *lol* 1997 I think it says.



Here is another batch of calls from mid-late '90's maybe. 
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Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
« Reply #14 on: June 14, 2011, 09:55:07 PM »
Here is my first box ever, Bocote and Osage   what the heck was i thinking.... *lol*


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