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Post by IndianaHunter on Apr 19, 2005 11:00:03 GMT -5
I just picked up two scratch box calls. I cannot believe how great these work. I'm sure the many experienced hunters here have used them but the newbie’s like me should look into them
IndianaHunter
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Post by corncob on Apr 19, 2005 11:16:22 GMT -5
Would you please describe a "scratch box call". That's new to me.
TKS Gregg
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Post by IndianaHunter on Apr 19, 2005 12:10:19 GMT -5
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Post by IndianaHunter on Apr 25, 2005 8:52:55 GMT -5
There very cool. It takes a bit too get used to it but when your on it they make a wonderfull call.
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Post by Pocampo on Jan 8, 2006 12:49:03 GMT -5
IndianaHunter,
another new old call that is a somewhat variation to the scratch box you refer to and don't see used very often is the Trough Call. I picked up a custom made one from Dick Kirby owner of Quaker Boy while attending the NWTF Convention & Sport Show in Nashville,Tenn in 2003 as an exhibitor with my Beard-Go-Round wild turkey dispays.
The call is called a "Double Trouble" Trough Call. It is made of walnut and has a linear aluminum strike strip in the trough and a cedar striker. It's the most realistic turkey call I have ever owned/heard and a lot of others agree.
Another new old call is the wingbone (3pc) yelper made from the wingbones of a wild hen, not a gobbler like most are. If you can master this call you can and will often times call in a turkey that has already been called in and wised up by someone else and that has heard all the different tunes before you got there if you know what I mean.
IMO the reason that it works so well is that it has a unique sound and tonal transfer quality and hardly anyone out in the field today uses it and so the turkeys are not accustomed to its sound.
Another call that I have yet to master is the tube call. I have heard this call used by a master and it can be phenominal and can do it all. The reed vibrates on your lip and drives me crazy. I doubt I will ever master it for that reason.
As turkey season draws near, now less than 3 months away ,it would be a good time to get all your gear prepped and start practicing with those new old calls. It is also an excellent time to start scouting new territory and ask permission again from all of those property owners who were gracious enough to let you hunt on their property last year. Never take it for granted that because you asked last year that you don't have to ask this year.
It"s always best to be considerate and ask again even if you think you dont have to. Things change and so do peoples minds.
Get permission to hunt, apply for permit(s), preparation of equip, scouting, practice and mastery of the calls that everyone else isn't using and remember "The early bird gets the worm".
Pocampo
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