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

Dang Ron you gonna be as many forums as I am before long Wonder how ol TC would fare over here? I am betting he would have a sore rear, what say you?

What are you doing prowling over here in the turkey section and i don't know about ole TC but i think he might could hang over here.

That is a really beautiful photo.

You mean I have to pick one? I take 2 mouth calls, a gobble call, a clover leaf 10 sider box call (makes 10 different tones), a ceramic pot call, a slate call, a slate over glass call, a glass call and a triple glass call. not to mention a acrylic striker, a rosewood striker, a purple wood striker, a african heart striker and a carbon striker. I take all these calls every time I go out. sometimes I go through several different combos before I find one a tom likes. I have already went through every combination and finally on the last one found one the boss tom liked. I have also splashed some water from a creek onto the ceramic call to make it create a soft raspy call and I have called in and bagged toms using this technique.

However; If I HAD to pick one I would have to choose my quaker boy walnut masters series pennsylvania slate call with an acrylic striker. this is my go to combo.

Legacy Mouth Calls!!!!!! I finally picked one up this year and have wondered ever since why I waited so long to try a Legacy.

Lynch box call model 101

My favorite call is probably my Lights Out pot calls!



really starting to like my cooper and ceramic custom pot calls I picked up last season. Both produce a different tone than traditional slate and glass calls. Gives me another tool in the box to throw at a weary public bird. They seem to respond well to them.

Sand Man, I don't see how you can stand using Andy's calls. They simply take the fun of turkey hunting. I'm thinking about pitching mine in the trash.

As I noted in a different thread, my pink ivory copper is my starting pitcher with its raspiness and the sweet-sounding, curly maple, ceramic pot is my closer. It seems that toms just can't bear not responding to copper. The ceramic is just so easy to throttle down to soft purrs and yelps when they get close.

I know the primary wood of your copper pot is pink ivory. Are the contrast stripes ebony? Whatever it is, the pot looks great!

Kaiser makes a great call... curly maple glass over purpleheart. So does Wendell Rye at Lights Out, though it seems I don't have a picture of my curly maple slate over glass. It is a killer call regardless!



Jerry (Dad) White... cedar and purpleheart.

I hesitated to post here because of all the amazingly beautiful calls, but decided to put up a pic anyway.

This one is what I'll carry this spring into the woods. It is Rocky Mountain Juniper under Cherry. I made around a dozen this spring and this had the best sound. I cut the wood in 2000 while in WY and after 3 moves and 11 years of drying it has finally come to fruition.







This was my favorite call from last year. I hope this call making disease has an endpoint.

Thanks. I believe it is ivory, but I'm not 100% sure. How sad is that?

Both are great calls. I've enjoyed them so far.

Thought I'd add a few I made. One on the left is hackberry, cocobola,and spalted Alaskan birch. All are slate/glass. The striker are from different woods.

Snootie, I really like those calls and strikers. The style and inlay of the Cocobola is great. At minimum, I'd like to try a couple of those strikers. We need to talk!

Thanks BlueK9!
It's kinda like a hobby. I usually make a few each year and just recently started making them to sell. I made 9 after the holidays and they were bought up by the guys at work so I made a few more. I like to use different woods. The pots I just finished are honey locust and laminated bamboo. Strikers are a few different woods with walnut tops. I think they came out real nice.

this one..since its the first one I made, lol.
it has taken 2 turkeys, and its gettting used tommorow

My favorite is a twenty year old walnut Dennis Kirk box.

It is beaten up, stained, and repaired old box. I fell on it once and broke off the base and glued it back with Elmers glue.

It just sounds great and works for me when nothing else will get a gobble nor call a bird.

Jim