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View Poll Results: What is your favorite turkey call?
Diaghpram/mouth call 21 40.38%
Slate/Glass 13 25.00%
Box 17 32.69%
Other-mention in post 1 1.92%
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Old 02-04-2008, 11:42 AM
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Default What is your favorite call for spring turkey?

Vote and post here you're go to call for spring gobblers.
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Old 02-04-2008, 03:10 PM
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Default Re: What is your favorite call for spring turkey?

Cutter 2.5 stacked on a raspy old hen diaphram. The it would have to be a 4 reed
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Old 02-04-2008, 04:25 PM
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Default Re: What is your favorite call for spring turkey?

Any mouth call from Woodhaven
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Old 02-04-2008, 07:51 PM
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Default Re: What is your favorite call for spring turkey?

i use an ol hs strut box call an a jake gobbler. has never failed
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Old 02-05-2008, 12:05 AM
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Default Re: What is your favorite call for spring turkey?

Again K.I.S.S. I use a Raspy ol Hen diaphram when they're in close. If they're off a ways I like a Primos OL Glory slate call. I can purr better with the slate call & a soft purr with a couple soft yelps following, is a killer.
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Old 02-05-2008, 05:09 PM
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I tried a Primos "snuff tube" last year (I like to try a new call or two every year). It took a little practice but I liked it. I can even do a pretty decent gobble on it! (I hunt private ground and can get away with gobbling). I recommend trying one. It's not my favorite call but if the longbeard won't come in...a little gobble (I try to sound like a jake) can be all it takes to convince him that he needs to get over to where you are.
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Old 02-05-2008, 05:14 PM
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Default Re: What is your favorite call for spring turkey?

BTW As far as my favorite call goes...I am partial to a glass or slate friction call. I use just about everything though and like them all.

Is it just me or have diaphragm calls gotten expensive? $10.00 for a diaphragm! Give me a break. I've been looking for a new one. I've been using a "diamond cutter" and like it but I may look into Woodhaven (per Boomer's recommendation). Anyone else have a favorite mouth call?
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Old 02-05-2008, 07:45 PM
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Default Re: What is your favorite call for spring turkey?

You can't beat a mouth call if you know what you are doing. You can make any call a turkey can make, loud or soft, and there are so many choices out there that you could sound like 100 different turkeys. Another big thing is that mouth calls are etremely cheap!
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Old 02-05-2008, 08:01 PM
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Default Re: What is your favorite call for spring turkey?

Raspy old hen diaprham or a glass witch slate.
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Old 02-05-2008, 08:17 PM
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Default Re: What is your favorite call for spring turkey?

I sound like a drooling slurping sick sick bird with a hairlip when I use a mouth call. I prefer the old slate that I've had for years. A primos....something.
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Old 02-07-2008, 09:37 AM
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Default Re: What is your favorite call for spring turkey?

I have an older HS box call and a hard body decoy, yep the one with the head that moves when you pull a string...old but still works. Tom
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Old 02-11-2008, 01:49 PM
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I sound like a drooling slurping sick sick bird with a hairlip when I use a mouth call. I prefer the old slate that I've had for years. A primos....something.
That is too funny. I am very partial to a diaphragm myself.
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Old 02-12-2008, 04:02 PM
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Default Re: What is your favorite call for spring turkey?

when feeding cows the pickup horns seems to bring em right in. Crazeist thing I have ever seen. They sure like corn
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Old 02-15-2008, 09:03 AM
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Default Re: What is your favorite call for spring turkey?

i like to vary between slate and diaphragm, any really raspy mouth call is good and i like to try new stuff every year. i generally have to get new calls each season anyway because they tend to get lost, broken, etc. you'd be amazed how many box calls never sound the same again after a long day out hunting in the rain or how many slates wont withstand the weight of a knee or butt. at the moment i am eagerly awaiting the arrival of a couple box calls handmade by Dick Turpin.
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Old 02-15-2008, 02:44 PM
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Default Re: What is your favorite call for spring turkey?

I like the stacked raspy mouth calls also. I don't sound too good on them but they seem to work well early in the season. Arrowed more turkeys with those than the rest combined. I bring them all ( box, slate, push button) along though. Some days they respond better to those.
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