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LOL...

That was funny. Would have been more so if it had any basis in fact.

That not you slurping on the diaphragm ?

I use to buy HS Strut calls, but they were very inconsistent from call to call for me. I like a 2.5 reed type call myself. I use to buy "Heart of Dixie" calls but they are hard to find now. A few years ago a guy on a turkey hunting forum I was on sent me about a dozen or so calls he hand made. I am still using them and they have been very consistent form call to call.
I carry some small broken tooth picks and slide between the reeds after the hunt to keep the reeds from sticking together. I store them in a plastic bag in a small refrigerator in my garage after the season. I think this will be my 3 or 4th season for the call I used last year.

Yeah, that's me. But I don't see me recommending mouth calls. Like the title of my thread, I don't know it all. I've been looking for your tutorials so I can know it all, but can't find any. Maybe if I can find one I can finally learn how to body shoot turkeys and techniques for picking shot out of meat.

Is this not you....

One little cluck and his head was up.

You took that as recommending a call? I think we need to find out what your head is made of. It seems denser than TSS.

Federal LFC. The densest shot on the market.

lol

If you're using Quaker Boy or MAD or HS Strut or other production diaphragms..............do yourself a favor. Try a couple calls from someone who is NOT mass producing, but rather, building them one at a time. You will be AMAZED at the difference.

For a couple decades I was on staff for a smallish call company and we made them one at a time. The company got sold and I had to start buying my diaphragms again. I found a Flextone that was just the schizz. I hunted that call that whole season with a lot of success. So I bought 3 more............just so I'd be in good supply. Long story short.......when I started breaking into the 3 new calls, EVERY ONE OF THEM ended up in the garbage. Loose reeds......just sounded like crap........no consistency from the original one to the new ones.

I got a lead on a smaller callmaker and gave his stuff a try. A bit more expensive. But the calls are QUALITY and consistent one to the next.

l have thrown more than 1 production call out in the trash. Like Yoder, get one you like, go back and buy more and the others sounds like crap

Who do you suggest?

pm sent

Working from home does let one practice.

Here's my attempts at cutting and yelping.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/iR4xFC7fqSkJTP8Y8

And a prewtty poor kee kee run
https://photos.app.goo.gl/7xRstTBeuwP4q3cA7

I've gotten to the point where I can just pop in the call and immediately start calling without fumbling with the call. And I can use the Quaker Boys a little better than the Primos. The QBs has some sponge in the reed framer that makes it seal better than the Primos.

Lordy mercy....

LOL, I actually wrote "Que LFC" in my post and then took it out.

Put a hat on that bald head...

Speaking of Bald Eagles, I was wonderting what TSS shot we would use for those if turkeys were the national bird.

Hey! What's wrong with being bald! I still part my hair down the middle, the parts just gotten wider over the years!

I prefer to think of it as high speed low drag hair myself....

And I'm not bald. I just keep it buzzed. I don't have any grey hair at 55 years old and that pisses off my wife so she doesn't want to see it.