Osage Roost
All Hunting => Spring Turkey Hunting => Topic started by: Shadetree Callers on May 23, 2013, 07:18:45 PM
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Here are the calls that I carried this spring across many a ridge and creek bottom . Being a boxcall lover , I used a shortbox and longbox stepside calls . I used a glass potcall by my good friend Gregg Guthridge and my favorite slate pot made by Bill Barker . I used my new favorite striker , the ShadeTree model dymondwood made by Stormin Torman . This striker runs like butter on every surface I tried so far . I have used it so much already that I'm surprised the tip isn't worn off . I also used my Primos Lucky Striker made in colorwood . And around my neck was my ultra nice Brian Mero trumpet w/ henbone mouthpiece . This one is as good as it gets . I use Primos double frame mouth calls .
So What's In Your Wallet ??
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I put all my calls away for this year so no pictures.
The list of the rotation.
Frank Kruer long box
Tim Bullock long box
Douglas Van Helden trumpet
David Smith trumpet
Glen Marrer Zebrawood glass over glass
Glen Marrer zebrawood glass ove slate
Lonnie Sneed Hot Hen
Frank Kruer laminated copper
Mike Johnson glass over slate.
Quaker Boy Aluminator
Stumpy ceramic
a few mouth calls that I hate using
and a slew of my strikers
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Little bit of every thing.....Few boxes and a few pots and Mostly one IPE striker that slew em!!!!!
Cherry Box
Long box usually a cedar over poplar
ceramic Spring Allure pot in Blood wood
Cracked corn mouth call
All cedar box.
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These calls travelled many a mile this spring and accounted for several nice gobblers. A Chuck Anderson Red Cedar over Paulownia long box, an Irving Whitt all-Walnut square field box, A Frank Cox Desert Ironwood trumpet, a Daybreak Padauk ceramic pot, a Lonnie Sneed slate over wood Hot Hen Red Cedar/Poplar pot, a Steve Lumma mud cured Osage trumpet, a Lonzo Trice black acrylic glass over glass pot, a Mike Yingling cast acorn copper over glass pot, and some X-Terminator mouth calls from Joe Slaton.
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I used my road hen turkey pan tube call trumpet and pot from Mike Little
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Lets see some more of those callers you guys were swingin" this year !!
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Longboxes
Cedar over Mineral Poplar Shorty Paddle from Darrin Dawkins
Redheart over Poplar Roadhen from Chuck
Yellowheart over Butternut from Scott Basehore
Pot call
A Darrin Dawkins Slate with a West Augusta Tamboti striker
Turkey Hill Calls Slate with a DD Adams purpleheart striker
Trumpet by Herb Hornstra
A Mudpuppi tube call of quarter sawn cedar
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I carried others but was working turkeys with these :)
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SSCustom maple over butternut longbox. That longbox drove the gobblers crazy. SSCustom Walnut over poplar and a SSCustom scratcher. A Brian Mero trumpet was also part of the arsenal.
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Oh boy.
During the season the following saw some kind of action
Boxes
1. Very old mahogany QB mini boat paddle
Scratch box
1. Spring creek maple on maple
Pots
1. Cane creek pro custom slate
2. Beard hunter aluminum in zebra wood pot with purple heart
3. Waddle whacker glass over aluminum in cherry pot with blood wood striker
4. Halloran Ceramic with mascar ebony striker
5. Halloran Crystal Mistress
6. Spring allure copper in bloodwood with maple striker
Mouth Calls
1. Houndstooth..tom bomb black and green. The dixie combo, and batwing
Trumpets
1. Frank Cox coco and Ivory
2. Permar 1917 coco
3. John Dangerfield cherry burl
4. Buice black and white ebony
5. Buice Brazilian rosewood
6. Buice olivewood
7. Joe Slaton amboyna Burl
8. Mudpuppi coco and buffalo horn
Tubes
1. Mudpuppi zebra wood
2. Barry Arringtons...Doans Pill bottle
Locators
1. Haydels Crow
2. Harrison tiger maple hooter
3. PS Olt red tail hawk
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I can't even list all that's in my vest right now as I haven't decided yet.
I will say that before I purged my vest before season last year it weighed in at a hefty 9 lbs and I had to drop some stuff. I just had way too much stuff and was not using half of it, yet felt I had to have it with me. No need for 5 different tube calls for instance.
I alternate what I take without duplication unless I am looking for a specific tone in something that I don't have in another (i.e. I usually carry 2 box calls: 1 longbox, 1 box.) mouthcalls are a given, got plenty of dups with those, and three different slates (glass over slate, a Dad's Do-Dad, and maybe a crystal)
My Permar 1920 African Blackwood, an Osage Brian Mero, and my trusty Buice in Snakewood always go with me as well as my Open Biscuit, muted Biscuit, and my Strumpet.
You can never have too many calls right?
If you told me I could not carry a vest, I would carry my, mouth calls, the DO-Dad, all trumpets, the Corbett calls, and the box call. That would all fit into or around my leg pockets and neck right?
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Smokey Hen Box or Hudson box
K.P. Trumpet
Doug Morgan Slate
Cane Creek mouth caller
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This year has seen a few call used already
Fat Bottom Girl Longbox
Shadetree Scratchbox
Clint Corder Osage Crack
Jay Burnsworth wingbone
Mudpuppi trumpet
K Box
Buckeye Box Call
McKamey one sider
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I'm down to carrying four yes four calls with me now...
They are either longbox, hen box, two pots calls and a trumpet. If I take the trumpet, longbox stays home and vice versa!
Never thought I'd drop to that low of calls, but it's working :) One day, I had one pot and a jordan. I've hunted more rain this year than anything else *cry*
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For those of you who dont know...Porter holds the World Record for ''Most turkey calls carried in the woods at one time'' !!!!
Glad to see you finally have it under control bud.
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It isnt under control he couldnt get the wheelbarrow through the mud!
Jon
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Jon and Bob ... I have learned from my youth... Jon is part right.. darn back was killing me toting that much stuff *peep* and Bob I only have two hands so throwing 50 calls at a bird just wasn't doing the trick *lol*