Your first call?

[Boll Weevil]

Hillbillyfab's post made me think back to my 1st turkey call; a Roger Latham True Tone box with the leather strap. Mr. Wiley from church gave it to me, I killed a few birds with it, but lost it somewhere along Blackjack creek. Terrible sounding call...or maybe it was because of who was running it? Nahhh, terrible sounding call for sure.

If you can remember that far back, what was your first turkey call?

 

[Rakkin6]

Easy for me since I have really only been turkey hunting for 12 years. And I actually have 2 of them. It is the Primos Ol Glory with the Frictionite surface. It still goes out with me on every hunt. And still gets the birds talking. I bought a backup toy original a few years ago that I found in some little sports store in Kentucky. They stopped making them about 10 years ago. This isn't mine since I am not home right now. But I still love this call and I have some yingling, schaffer, Dawkins but this one still goes out.

 

[Southern Sportsman]

The first call I ever owned was a Lynch's World Champion Box that my dad had but never used (he wasn't a turkey hunter). First call I ever managed to yelp up a turkey with was a Knight & Hale Ol' Yeller.

 

[Gravey]

It was either a push pin type or Ole Yeller slate call. Don't remember which one was first.

 

[Chief44]

First call was a green camo HS Strut box call that I bought in the late 80's. Followed by a Lynch fool proof one sided box. Still use the Lynch from time to time.

 

[catman529]

First call was a homemade tube call, don't remember exactly what it was cause I made several. I still have the tube call I killed my first turkey with. Made it out of bamboo

 

[Boll Weevil]

First call was a homemade tube call, don't remember exactly what it was cause I made several. I still have the tube call I killed my first turkey with. Made it out of bamboo

You know Cat you just reminded me, my first call was homemade too. Until you posted I'd forgotten....a tube call made from a 35mm film canister with the bottom cut out, a 1/2 moon cutout of the cap, a section of balloon, and a rubber band. Boy, those were the days.

 

[slabhead]

Ha, my first turkey call when I was about 12 around 1979, was a homemade from a corncob and a piece of cedar. I read about how to make one in a hunting mag. Dad didn't turkey hunt and I don't even know if you could buy a call back then...didn't kill a turkey with it my second was a box call a friend made from popular and cedar. I did get a turkey with it!

 

[spoon]

You know Cat you just reminded me, my first call was homemade too. Until you posted I'd forgotten....a tube call made from a 35mm film canister with the bottom cut out, a 1/2 moon cutout of the cap, a section of balloon, and a rubber band. Boy, those were the days.

Did the same thing

 

[bigjohn]

Corncob and cane

 

[Newt]

Ol yeller for me

 

[PickettSFHunter]

Primos power crystal

 

[Acorn]

Lynch's fool proof box call and I still use it from time to time.

 

[megalomaniac]

Mass produced Quaker boy slate. I bet it would still kill toms if I could find it in the bottom of my turkey hunting box.

 

[prstide]

HS Strut Field Champion Natural box call. Still have it tucked away.

 

[Wrangler95]

36 years ago was when I started turkey hunting and my first call was a Penns Woods slate call!

 

[Willysman]

Hillbillyfab's post made me think back to my 1st turkey call; a Roger Latham True Tone box with the leather strap. Mr. Wiley from church gave it to me, I killed a few birds with it, but lost it somewhere along Blackjack creek. Terrible sounding call...or maybe it was because of who was running it? Nahhh, terrible sounding call for sure.

If you can remember that far back, what was your first turkey call?

Lynchs Fool Proof box call. Had to order it. No such thing as a turkey call in a sporting goods store at that time. (1977) Lot of turkeys met their demise with that old call.

 

[Gobble4me757]

Ben Rogers Lee diaphragm. My mother grew up with Ben Lee and was best friends with his daughter in coffeville, alabama back in the day. We saw ben Lee's son at a turkey expo when I was 7/8 yrs old and he gave me a ben Lee cassette tape and a diaphragm.

 

[redblood]

I little square slate call with a cedar striker. Guy at a local bow shop gave it to me

 

[woodsman04]

Home made tube, home made slate, Lynch's fool proof, and a homemade mouth yelper. Don't even remember who made them.