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General Forum => General Discussion => Topic started by: Will on March 03, 2015, 06:45:55 PM
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Turkey call? Awhile ago I posted a similar topic in reference to your first turkey hunt. Since I've been hunting Turkeys and more recently into custom calls I have been reading little by little into the history of call making. I would like to see if you guys remember your very first turkey call.
For me I kind of look at it in two ways. My stepdad who introduced me to hunting always had a Roger Latham True Tone turpin box call laying around. I remember it was not easy to use as young as I was but this was my first call I practiced with. I remember when I saved my grass cutting money shortly after my first turkey hunt I bought my very first call
A Lynch Fool Proof One Sider...
I still have the call to this day only its a little darker in color. Boy have turkey calls come a long way.
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My first call was a Smith All Butternut box, called in a half dozen fall turkeys with it on the first day I ever hunted turkeys. Tagged one and thought "that was easy."
Little did I know luck was on my side. Wish I still had that call.
*gobble*
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My first two pot calls were a Quaker boy Aluminator that I still carry from time to time and a Camo copper pot glass call. My first trip to the woods with those two calls I called in three long beards. I've never been the same since. *lol*
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A Lynch 1958, my dad gave me when I was 14. He had bought it and never turkey hunted. Killed my first gobbler with it the next year. He passed away in Jan. 3 months, before I took that gobbler.
Bill
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My first box caller was a Neil Cost .
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My first call was a Ben Lee box call, still have it too! Killed my first gobbler using it.
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My first caller was a Roger Lathram True-Tone. My first day hunting with it, I gave 2 gobblers a ride home. Later on I bought a Lynch box, one of the field grades and didn't like it. Then I bought a World Class Deluxe which was the cause of several gobblers getting a free ride. But, probably my favorite back then, was a 50th anniversary Lynch World Class. It got busted and after that the custom craze hit. Been broke ever since!!!
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I was thinking after I posted this I was sure I wrote the year I bought my Lynch call on the bottom of it and sure enough I did.....1988...I guess it doesn't compare to the previous Lynch mentioned that was 1958...
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My first call was also a Lynch 1958 purchased in 1963. I had to order it through a local gun shop and it took 6 weeks to get it.
It is still in my call cabinet today in good shape.
Jon
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one of the first calls I remember was a ole Ben Lee also---hunted it for years before I was repositioning and had it stuck in my shirt pocket as I was crawling to a different set up, and heard the dreaded sound....SNAP. I knew before I looked down, I had sat my knee on it and completely broke the right sound board. Ben had actually signed and gave the call to me as a young green hunter ----the same way I am today
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My first box caller was a Neil Cost .
That's awesome. Did you hang on to it?
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My first call was a Smith All Butternut box, called in a half dozen fall turkeys with it on the first day I ever hunted turkeys. Tagged one and thought "that was easy."
Little did I know luck was on my side. Wish I still had that call.
*gobble*
I think I had a Smith Sweet Butternut ?? maybe the same type call as paboxcall
I still have the call but it has a new lid ;D Yep I broke it getting up to get a turkey
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I enjoy reading the responses guys. Not that my old Lynch box isn't a treasure but I started my oldest boy off this past Christmas with his first calls....a Kwila/Butternut short and longbox set by Jeff McKamey. He's chomping at the bit to use them on youth day. I'd say he's starting off top notch!
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Congrats to your son on a couple of awesome calls! Imagine the stories he'll be able to tell forty years from now when he talks about his first call!
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I want to see pics from what hopefully will be a memorable event
Good luck to y'all
I'm with ya every step of the way in spirt
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Top notch is correct!...I hope he kills a bigun!
Jeff you weren't crawling on that gobbler was you? LOL I crawl on em all the time myself.
I bought my first box call in the 80's, It was a Lynch and I still have it. I bought a Pennwoods alum trough call the same day, I don't have it any more,,,I don't think...I Called up a bunch of turkeys with those two calls!