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.

 

[SwampChicken]

Old yeller pot call was my first one back in 1996 which I got the day after I shot my first Gobbler that fall at 8 y/o. Killed a pile of birds with that pot, an old cabelas box call and an old Quaker boy push pin during my youth, it wasn't until 2012 that I bought my first custom pot call.

 

[Rakkin6]

Primos power crystal

I have 2 of these, they still get used.

 

[Urban_Hunter]

Mine was a Lohman cedar box call. Finally went hunting with someone that knew what they were doing and told me I shouldn't use the box once they were within 100 yards. He gave me an Ol' Yeller pot call and finally started killing some turkeys

 

[huvrman]

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.

 

[CritterGitter]

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.

Mine was a Quaker boy walnut master series slate . Still my favorite! Came with a wood striker and a wood/carbon striker

 

[Jbird22]

Either a Knight and Hale push pin or single reed mouth call (can't remember the maker). I can't remember which one came first. Nearly 30 yrs ago...

 

[younggun308]

Quaker Boy push pin, but I killed my 2nd turkey using mouth calls (first one other people were calling on store-bought pots). Can't remember what they were. Something cheap from Wal-Mart and then something custom from the gun store that had way more rasp.

 

[timberjack86]

Lynch world champion, called up a gobbler that first hunt too, scared him into the next county

 

[Flintlocksforme]

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.

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.

 

[Wrangler95]

Old yeller pot call was my first one back in 1996 which I got the day after I shot my first Gobbler that fall at 8 y/o. Killed a pile of birds with that pot, an old cabelas box call and an old Quaker boy push pin during my youth, it wasn't until 2012 that I bought my first custom pot call.

I had a Ole Yeller call also,sounded good.Dont know what happened to it!