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Strutstopper
| | Posted on Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 6:05 am: | |
All, I'm looking for a new box call to add to my repertoire this season. Any good ones out there you all would recommend? |
swampgobbler870
| | Posted on Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 8:00 am: | |
Strutstopper
My favorites are a rohm bros. wild cherry/poplar and a martin bros. american chesnut box call. Both are at good prices and really get out in the woods |
Full Fan
| | Posted on Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 5:27 pm: | |
Check this site out. Albert had a booth set up at the NWTF banquet and his calls sounded and looked great. Ordered mine back in Jan. and it was shipped out Monday. Takes a while to get it, but it's worth the wait.
www.paulscalls.com
Full Fan |
TScottW99
| | Posted on Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 5:48 pm: | |
I have heard nothing but Great stuff about Paul's Calls. And they sure are pretty! I have also heard some good stuff about David Camp's box calls, supposed to have custom sound with a $60.00 price tag. I still can't find his webpage though. I use a production box right now by H.&S. Strut. It works for me, plus I like the silncer option that is built into it. Another good production call is the time tested Lynch. Can be had at wallyworld for $19.99 |
turkeypicker
| | Posted on Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 10:53 pm: | |
Scott: The Lynch Calls aren't what they used to be though. I'll buy an old (1970's or 1980's --as long as it's the dark mahogany) Lynch Foolproof from anyone out there that has one -- sight unseen -- fair price too.
I am somewhat of a box call collector. My wife fusses about all of my box calls. The best place to cure a box call is on the back of a television (really brings out that sweet sound).
I used to make homemade box calls. I've used cedar, sourwood, mahogany, walnut (too hard), poplar (too soft), apple and holly (my favorite). I just moved, hope to build a woodshop to get back in the call making business someday. |
Gobbler Getter
| | Posted on Friday, March 15, 2002 - 7:48 am: | |
I still have my original box call. Bought it when I first started hunting. Been using it for 22 years now and it sounds better than ever. I'ts a Lohman double chamber walnut box call with gobbler tones on one side and hen tones on the other. Talked to many a bird with it. I agree with turkeypicker, they sound better after they cure out.
Kevin |
GN
| | Posted on Friday, March 15, 2002 - 8:36 am: | |
Today, I think there are hunting boxcalls and therer are box calls that are more of piece of art work. And there are some that are a combibnation. A lot of them are very good. I tend to use some calls that are older, just because I have them. So I may not be as up to date on what is out there this year in the mass produced calls market. Really you just need to go some where where there are several available to hold and try outand try them out. I think ordering one sight unseen is a crap shoot. Everybody hold s the calls differnetly and puts pessure on the lid and the bx in different ways, so I would want to have one in my hands today before I paid much for it., Interesting, one of my favorite old calls (like Tpickers)is a holly box with a mahogany. I think the Primos calls. If you are anywhere near those shows Freddy is doing( schedule posted elsewhere on the message board), go see what he has and wha t the stores have and get him to help you. |
Tburt
| | Posted on Friday, March 15, 2002 - 9:01 am: | |
I bought a lynch's World Champion Box call five years ago from an older gentleman that used to have a country store, and he was cleaning it out when he found these two old Lynch box calls. I bought one, and my dad bought the other. They came wrapped in old yellow faded paper and on the inside were instructions and an order form to purchase a RECORD to listen to real turkey sounds! A RECORD!! Not a tape, not a CD--a record. I am 25, so this kinda set me thinking I had truly purchased an older call. My dad has yet to take his Lynch call out of the paper wrapper. I love my box call, together with my diaphram call, I have driven some Toms wild. Best part: We paid his original sticker price that was still on them--$4.99 |
wgbl
| | Posted on Friday, March 15, 2002 - 12:26 pm: | |
Tburt, your calls are worth a bunch more than you paid, with the record and original papers. Check out ebay prices sometimes. |
turkeypicker
| | Posted on Friday, March 15, 2002 - 11:22 pm: | |
Tburt...you dawg. What a steal. If your dad wants to turn a fancy profit on his call, I'm interested!! My dad still has his record too. I actually learned to use a diaphram mouth call listening to that old 45 record of turkey sounds. There was no such thing as Primos, Knight and Hale, etc. back then (not even Ben Lee and his obnoxious raucous calling yet), but that old record really helped me. Thanks for rekindling some fond memories. I want to go down to dads house and listen to that record now!!
GN, as for my "sight-unseen" comment -- I'm serious. I have NEVER seen one single "original" foolproof old Lynch call I couldn't get a totally awesome hen yelp out of, and I've held more than a few. If the call hasn't been broken or unnecessarily tinkered with, I'd buy for a fair price. Wgbl has me curious about ebay and Lynch calls. I've got to go check that out. |
GN
| | Posted on Saturday, March 16, 2002 - 8:26 am: | |
I lied about my box call made with the holly box. It has an ebony lid, not a mahogany lid. I wrote a half a sentenc about Primos box calls; the halfI left out said that I thought they were prety good callsfro the lower to middle market prices. Tpicker, I suspect you and most on here could make a good yelp with a lynch box, as you could with most decent box calls for that matter. Ihave friendswho have beter box call strokes than me..it always amazes me that one friend can pick up about any box call and make the best yelp series yo can imagine , all the very first time he has it in his hands. I killed my first turkey with a lynch box and no other call. Ihad a brotherin law who had never kiled a turkey, and one day I got one gobbling good for him, and sent him down theridge with my lynch box , anddang if he did not call the bird in and kil it. So that box has two first turkeys to its credit. |
turkeypicker
| | Posted on Saturday, March 16, 2002 - 8:42 pm: | |
GN: You really hit the nail on the head. I've seen a lot of hunters that have a tough time with a box call. They hold the lid too tight and slap it down against the calling edge, losing the double-note and the all-important (to me) rasp. Most people will recommend beginners use a box call. It is simple to use, but not so simple to use well. |
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