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Turkey Call Paradise => From the Callmaker's Bench => Topic started by: BD1 on December 05, 2009, 04:46:28 PM
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Planning to buy a few more, These will be used for Hunting, What wood combos would u recommend & What type of Sounds would they produce? Right now I have a pair of Butternut Box w/ Walnut Paddle & A Black Limba Box w/Walnut Paddle. It's hard for me to tell the sounds on the phone.
How many categories are there for sounds? (Raspy to mellow) What wood, would fit these sounds. This is a hard subject with so many wood combos!!!
Thanks Bill
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Poplar and cedar boxes with walnut, Cherry or maple paddles are mighty fine turkey killing machines! *up*
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Walnut/Walnut
Maple/Walnut
Maple/Cedar
Cherry/Butternut
Maple/Poplar
Ebony/Holly
Just too many good combos to list them all.
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Here would be my list for hunting!
Walnut/Walnut
Persimmon/Walnut
Walnut/Persimmon
Alaskan Yellow Cedar/Purpleheart
Cedar/Cedar
Poplar/Cherry
Willow/Walnut
Chestnut/Walnut
Sassafras/Walnut
Wow that was a lot longer than I thought it would be :)
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It would be best to get one of each.. RkLu
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It would be best to get one of each.. RkLu
Nah 2 of each!!
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Call one of the great callmakers on this forum and tell them what sound you are looking for and which side you want that sound to come from. I am left-handed and play that side of the call the most. I like a higher pitched raspy sound on the left side and several of the callmakers on here made me just what I was looking for. They know what wood combos will give you the sound you want.
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It would be best to get one of each.. RkLu
Nah 2 of each!!
Sometimes 2 just isn't enough either.. I'm guilty of owning 4 of the same ones *peep*
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Sinker Cypress with cherry lid Sinker Cypress with Osage lid Tim Clayton And Blackfalcon calls here
Mulberry with Kwilla lid Marlin Watkins Fiddle Back call It is a Killer
Yellow cedar with Zebra lid These are fast becoming my favorites These are Twisting Creek Jeff Mckamey Calls
Poplar with Walnut lid SS Clincher
Butternut with walnut lid SS clincher
Butternut with cherry
Butternut with Padauk lid
Chestnut with Walnut lid
Mahogany box Walnut kid (Thanks for reminding me Todd) Augiedog has a SS Clincher in this combo that is spectacular!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sitka Spruce with Cedar lid (Long Box) Dan Whittenburg
Black Limba with just about any lid but especially Walnut and Padauk
Chestnut and Walnut Jeff McKamey
Sassafras and Walnut
Persimmon and Walnut
Walnut and Persimmon
African Teak and Purpleheart
Osage and Walnut McKamey and Lee Smith calls
Osage and Osage
Where do you stop.....You can't really
If I had to buy just two calls to hunt with.....Sinker cypress short box with Cherry lid and Sinker Cypress and Osage Long box and (AYC and Tiger Wood lid)
The list represents what I know from limited experience but mostly what I have heard from calls and some fine turkey hunters and call makers Especially.
DISCLAIMER....I AM NOT AN EXPERT BY NO MEANS!!!! TALK TO A GOOD CALL MAKER AND TRUST THEM!!!
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Lots of good combo's mentioned above, but my favorite is Mahogany box with Walnut Lid.
Todd
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Lots of good combo's mentioned above, but my favorite is Mahogany box with Walnut Lid.
Todd
Yep, forgot that one. One of the best.
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Its a great combo.... Its the Bulldog Mikey call from SS ;) RkLu *up*
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Its a great combo.... Its the Bulldog Mikey call from SS ;) RkLu *up*
Mahogany/Walnut with GOOD Mahogany is killer!! If you get tired of the call Bruce, Just let me know, I'll buy her back. *bannana*
Al
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Ain't No way you're getting that one back Al. RkLuThat call Spits feathers everytime I play it. It don't get any better that that call... *bowing* It roosts at night.
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Ain't No way you're getting that one back Al. RkLuThat call Spits feathers everytime I play it. It don't get any better that that call... *bowing* It roosts at night.
*aah* *aah* *aah* *aah* Well, it was worth a shot!! RkLu
Al
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You still got that butternut one sider Al??? Right?? Al??? Al??????? ROTFLMBO
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Ain't No way you're getting that one back Al. RkLuThat call Spits feathers everytime I play it. It don't get any better that that call... *bowing* It roosts at night.
I still regret not buying that one!!!!!!!!!! I know how meant it much to you!!!! So it went to a good home *up* Wouldn't wanted to disappoint your call buying decision maker *peep*
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You still got that butternut one sider Al??? Right?? ROTFLMBO
Ummm, are you referring to the one Bruce changed his mind on and bought the longbox? ROTFLMBO ROTFLMBO He just couldn't resist that longbox!!! *bannana*
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Al if you wouldn't have played the longbox I'd a bought the onesider *aah* ROTFLMBO...That was the reason I called was to get my first one sider ROTFLMBOWhen I make up my mind its set in stone....well.... *aah*Maybe if I *fall*Yep set on STONE
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Al if you wouldn't have played the longbox I'd a bought the onesider *aah* ROTFLMBO...That was the reason I called was to get my first one sider ROTFLMBOWhen I make up my mind its set in stone....well.... *aah*Maybe if I *fall*Yep set on STONE
Oh my... you sound as solid as a rock on your decisions ROTFLMBO
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Al if you wouldn't have played the longbox I'd a bought the onesider *aah* ROTFLMBO...That was the reason I called was to get my first one sider ROTFLMBOWhen I make up my mind its set in stone....well.... *aah*Maybe if I *fall*Yep set on STONE
Oh my... you sound as solid as a rock on your decisions ROTFLMBO
He is as solid as a democrat on health reform! *aah* *aah*
Mike
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I was for it before I was against it....I didn't inhale.. No i didn't have sex with that woman. I to could be president... ROTFLMBO
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I guess my favorite at the time is what has worked recently to call in a gobbler. I used these wood combos last spring to call birds to the gun and were taken by me or my son:
Mahogany/Zebra wood.... I called in two gobblers with this call last spring and killed them both in Kansas
Willow/Walnut....I called in a gobbler with this call last spring and my son killed it in Arkansas
Spanish Cedar/Sapele...I called in a double-bearded gobbler with this call last spring and killed it in Missouri
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You still got that butternut one sider Al??? Right?? Al??? Al??????? ROTFLMBO
Thanks for clearing up what you meant Dave.. LOL That one sider I played for you at that time is the one Josh won at Nationals with.. And, yea, I do have it!! RkLu It'll be in my possession as long as I'm here on earth. Nice talkin' with ya earlier bud!
Al
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Sorry for getting off track Bill... Here's my take on the different sounds of woods for box calls.. Honestly, from my experience, it's easier to build the sound someone is looking for by tuning it into the call rather than trying to pick a wood combo that makes that particular sound. What I mean is just because two guys build a butternut/walnut call for instance, it don't mean they will sound alike.. One may be deeper sounding while the other is higher pitched... One may be raspy, the other clear.. So I don't think there's any magic wood combo that just automatically produces a certain tone and pitch.. It's more about how the call is tuned to sound. Hope this helps.
Al
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Walnut/Walnut
Walnut/Poplar
Osage/Cedar
my favorite is
Gabon Ebony/holly RkLu
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Rosewood/mahogany as well!
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I absolutely love Alaskan yellow cedar with a walnut paddle. Close second is mahagony box with walnut, and right there with it is also a canarywood box with walnut paddle. Cant go wrong with walnut over anything