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What is your favorite Turkey , Box , Slate and Mouth call?

I've got an Ike Ashby slate that I've had for years and works really nice! It's super small so fits in my hands easily.

I get my best sound out of a slate pot call, but use box calls and mouth calls too (just not as well). Only problem with a slate pot is having both hands tied up if you get surprised by an early bird!

This one it slays um
Red Wasp

Hooks mouth calls, Kaiser Kalls pot type, Little Heart Breaker box, Harrison Hoot tube, Kaiser crow......heck there are others

The best sounding call I run is an aluminum surface pot call. I buy HS Lil Deuce pots when I can find them cheap. Their poly pot is better than other poly pots I've bought to make calls. I like to remove the surface and replace it with slick aluminum, then hit it with 200 grit to roughen it up. I make my own strikers with purple heart and hickory. Different strikers will produce a different sound. I usually carry slate, aluminum, and glass pot calls as well as a couple mouth calls. I seem to get better responses from birds with pot calls and it's much easier to cut on one for me.

I roll with the Lil Deuce, but if I'm trying to get one to hear me from across the pasture, I use my Gaskins call. That being said, I only hunt Osceolas and they don't care for a ton of calling. I might make 75 yelps during the entire season.

Been making my own pot calls and strikers for about 7-8 yrs now. I try to make 6-8 calls each year and use different woods each year. This year I made some from Red Cedar, Laminated bamboo, Honey locust, and Spalted birch from Alaska. I use different woods for strikers and the sound varies with each so I carry 3-4 when hunting.

I carry a box but pots are my favorite!

I like my Primos Jackpot Slate. I use it with a Woodhaven striker or the Primos KeeKee striker. It is probably the call I use the most with the best results.
Mouth call favorite is also a Primos; True Double II
I ocassionally still use my Lohman Thunder Dome Glass call. I carry MAD aluminum and ceramic calls but almost never use them.

Dad uses a David Halloran Slate and a Cane Creek Glass call with a myriad of different strikers. He also uses Primos mouth calls.

Neither of us use a box call.

A MKW Trumpet and a Hooks Executioner.

Mike

Hmmm, That pic speaks for itself.

My standby is an old,beat up Lynch World Champion.

I've had real good luck with the MAD diaphram calls by Mark Drury

Corn. Just kidding. On friction calls I like to run Cody calls. For mouth calls Preston Pittman or the new Zink's

If you said corn then you must be from Texas and have show on the Outdoor Channel

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Hooks mouth calls, Andy Kaiser glass, Wendell Rye slate, Jerry White (Dad's) box call...

Woodhaven Cherry Crystal Classic and Woodhaven slate. There may be slate style calls that sound as good but I've heard none better.

Man i'm a sucker for a trumpet and that's a beautiful yelper you got there.

Thank you, sir. To me, the beauty is on the inside. If'n it don't run and sound good, it ain't worth squat. I do the best I can on every one. If I wouldn't hunt with it, it won't leave here. That one went to a fellow in GA.

Mike