Home Forums Birds & Dogs Turkey Hunting Good pot/slate call??

I'm going to get a little heretical here. Look, I used to pro-staff for a turkey call company. I am not going to say their 60 dollar and 80 dollar calls were not good calls. In fact, some of those calls had radical designs and truly superb sounds.

However, the Shamanic line of turkey calls:



. . .have called in just as many gobblers. I make them for a fraction of the price of normal custom calls, and the hardest part is applying the varnish. I make them for my family and friends. I also make strikers and recently tried my hand at box calls. My first attempt at the latter produced a gobbler on Opening Day last year. With a few rare exceptions, the cheapest Poplar pot call is indistinguishable from an $80 Bubinga and Purple Heart Laminate.

The magic of a turkey call happens between the ears of the caller. A lot of that comes in the way of confidence. If it takes an $80 pot call to make you confident you can call in a gobbler, then it was worth the money. However, it is not an absolute requirement.