I’ve Been Busy-Turkey Season is Coming

[Ricochet]

This is a busy part of the year for call makers. With duck and deer seasons behind, I have been swamped with the diaphragms, box calls, scratch boxes and trumpets! I try to keep a few on hand in case somebody wants one already made instead of a custom build. Here are a few that I finished up recently! I hope you enjoy the pictures

Do we have any other call makers on board here? Post some pictures for everyone to enjoy!!

 

[Loyalist Dave]

wow....


LD

 

[zerosprk]

Nice work! Do you have a website, if so, do you mind sharing the URL?

 

[Lawnscaper]

Very nice I bet they sound sweet!!

 

[TDM]

Beautiful box calls! My birds have just started showing up again.

 

[deermanok]

What are those trumpet calls?

 

[snakebit]

You would have to post those pictures seeing how I have a well documented addiction to turkey calls

 

[WALT53]

What are those trumpet calls?

Those are a thing of beauty sir .

 

[Ricochet]

Nice work! Do you have a website, if so, do you mind sharing the URL?

Thank you, I do not have a website as of now but may in the future.

 

[Ricochet]

Beautiful box calls! My birds have just started showing up again.

I appreciate the compliment! Our birds may be rebounding also, there has been a very long dry spell here!

 

[Ricochet]

What are those trumpet calls?

I do love Trumpet calls. The ones pictured are curly maple, Bocote and African Blackwood. I am making a few right now with some acrylic-like plastic. They sound great! Trumpet calls will test your patience early on as you start making them but once you kind of figure them out you can get pretty consistent with their sounds.

After looking at the picture again, from left to right:
White Oak burl with some crazy grain
Curly Maple....aquafortis
Curly Maple....alcohol dyed
Bocote
African Blackwood
Bocote
Zebra Wood
Lignum Vitae....superb wood for a trumpet!

All but the second Bocote has delrin mouthpieces, that one has a clear acrylic one.

 

[Ricochet]

You would have to post those pictures seeing how I have a well documented addiction to turkey calls

Ha! I hear you!! I have the same addiction, which is a big reason I started making them years ago!

 

[Ricochet]

Those are a thing of beauty sir .

I appreciate that Walt!

 

[TDM]

I appreciate the compliment! Our birds may be rebounding also, there has been a very long dry spell here!

I’m lucky to have a fairly healthy population, but they have such a wide range. Takes a lot more land than I have to hold them year round. Hadn’t seen any since December, now they’re moving back in.

 

[Ricochet]

I’m lucky to have a fairly healthy population, but they have such a wide range. Takes a lot more land than I have to hold them year round. Hadn’t seen any since December, now they’re moving back in.

I grew up in Northwest Mississippi. Had a buddy come to Arkansas this weekend to fill up on calls for their season. I wish the biologists would figure out this decline in birds, its gettin depressing!

 

[TDM]

I grew up in Northwest Mississippi. Had a buddy come to Arkansas this weekend to fill up on calls for their season. I wish the biologists would figure out this decline in birds, its gettin depressing!

I hear you, while my numbers are still healthy I don’t see the numbers I saw 8-9 years ago.

 

[Vtmountaindeerhunter]

It's crazy up here in Vermont I feel like the birds are super active, the toms were on hens yesterday . Come May first the breeding and strutting has slowed to a scant few birds. I guess I am just complaining that the season needs to start earlier.

 

[snakebit]

I would always hear the first gobble of the year from my back deck, as I would see a small local flock in the Ag fields back there, they would even come into the yard. They disappeared a few years ago and haven't been back. I'm hoping they rebound up this way.

 

[snakebit]

Thank you, I do not have a website as of now but may in the future.

Please let us know. Id like to buy some. Have to feed the addiction ya know

 

[WALT53]

Please let us know. Id like to buy some. Have to feed the addiction ya know

Probably no body trapping any more and there’s to many coyotes and Bob cats and other critters that like eat them ,just a thought .