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Lynch's World Champion Box. 1979. Riding a Honda Trail 70 around some crop fields, saw a couple of turkeys run into the woods, rode home, loaded up my grandad's side by side 16, and the box call my brother had, and rode back. Parked the bike, hid in some honey suckle, and started calling. Had never turkey hunted or even used a call before. After an hour, and never having gobbled, they came back out. I was so green, had never seen a Turkey before, and didnt know what a Jake was. I couldn't see a beard, so I figured the only way to tell if it was a gobbler was to hear it gobble. So, I just kept yelping at them once they were out in front of me and one gobbled. The rest is history. I still have that call. Lost it in the woods 3 years ago. Found it last year. What a treasure.
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I still have that call but never use it anymore!
 
Early in my turkey hunting years I had a DD Adams double slate and a Lohman Thunder Dome. I gave those to friends of mine that were just getting into turkey hunting. Years later I said what have I done. That DD Adams was the best I've ever owned.
 
HS strut triple glass.started in '98. Made a lot of EM gobble at first before I started killing anything but I have good memories of scratching out yelps on that call and turkeys gobbling back at me and just being amazed at making a noise that made them gobble. Killed a few Jakes with it.

I remember the Old Yeller and the Primos Diamond crystal calls being my go to calls for a while.
 
It wasn't my first call, but I put a lot of gobblers together floppin with a $9 Quaker Boy Turkey Thugs glass back in the day. I own a lot of calls now but that one will always be my most memorable.
 
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I left my gun in the woods one time…propped up against a tree. A mile later toting the tom out recognized I was missing something over my other shoulder. :rolleyes:
 
Primos Aluma-Slate. It was an aluminum slate call. My dad had one and It called in countless toms for me. I missed some and killed a few. I had to buy my own because he wasn't giving his up. I always carry a scotch brite pad to freshen it up.
 
Flintlocksforme said:
The Ben Lee cassette tape was worn thin at our house. We actually wore one out and had a second. A couple of 1975 Twin hen box calls and the original super hen with aluminum instead of slate. It was sweet but sensitive to moisture.
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That's awesome! I actually have the cassette tape on a CD a guy made recently for me. It stays in my truck. I tracked down an original twin hen box call that stays on my shelf. My great aunt was one of the 6 ladies that made his calls there in Coffeeville, AL in a small shop. Pretty cool. Harold Knight used to stay with another aunt when he would come hunt with Ben Lee.
 
First pot call was a DD Adams double slate. But the first calls I ever saw were homemade box calls from the true old timers. My dad got a homemade slate with a carved cedar peg from an older friend in the early 60s. It makes a super soft sound you can barely hear across the room.
 
I started turkey hunting 30 years ago on our family farm in south Missouri. First call was an Ike Ashby Gobbler Box. He was a local callmaker for the area. Still my favorite call, mostly for the cherished memories I have with it.
 
Mine was a Lynch Jet slate. The original was lost long ago but it's relacement will be with me this year. The first turkey I killed was with a cane yelper I made after I read how to make one in a magazine or maybe from Roger Latham's reprint of Tom Turpin's book, I can't remember.
 
My first call was given to me by my Dad in about 1963 or so…I still have it…makes a horrible yelp…lol…never killed anything using it…but it is priceless…we went turkey hunting in the Meadow Creek, Tater Knobs area of what now is the Savage Gulf State Natural Area…was the last place in Grundy County where there were a few native wild turkeys left…it is a Lohman cedar box with a cedar striker and an old piece of chalk that stores inside…still has the same rolled up paper towel stopper that Dad had in it…
 

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