Turpins booklet doesn't have a publishing date but some think it was published around 1927. It mentions SuperX shells and they came out in 1922 so it was after that. To show how much has changed, he gave instructions on making a Jordan type caller with cane and a wing bone and a rough idea of making a box call since there wasn't any mass production of calls to buy. His old standby call before he learned about the trumpet type caller was a little scratchbox caller that used a slate striker. His idea of camo was buying a pack of dye and staining his hunting outfit, he said his wife fussed at him for ruining it, she said it looked like nothing now and he told her that's what he wanted the turkey to see when he wore it, nothing! Another idea he had was sewing a sheet of rubber in the seat of his hunting pants to keep dry on the ground.
At the end of the booklet he mentions that turkeys were a fast vanishing gamebird that needed to be protected by short seasons and low bag limits, I guess the more things change the more they stay the same.
From what I read, his entire hunting equipment list was his homemade camo suit, his double barrel shotgun(or a 30-30), his trumpet call, a box call, some coal oil soaked ashes in a little box and matches for making a fire and his lunch (I guess carried in the game pouch of his coat) ,his compass and his hunting horn.
At the end of the booklet he mentions that turkeys were a fast vanishing gamebird that needed to be protected by short seasons and low bag limits, I guess the more things change the more they stay the same.
From what I read, his entire hunting equipment list was his homemade camo suit, his double barrel shotgun(or a 30-30), his trumpet call, a box call, some coal oil soaked ashes in a little box and matches for making a fire and his lunch (I guess carried in the game pouch of his coat) ,his compass and his hunting horn.
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