Years ago one of the first calls I ever played around with was a tube call.I called my first fall turkey in with a homemade design I built out of a prescription bottle in the medicine cabinet and it was oh so simple and still to the day remain effective.Tubes are very versitale in sound a variations of calls and can be a great change of pace from friction and even a diaphragm.I really like using a tube primarily in the fall because for me its very easy to kee kee and yelp on.Just like anything practice and confidence applied to this call can give you another weapon in your arsenal in calling turkeys to your set-up.Here' s a good article from the NWTF on tubes in making one.....
The tube call is a popular caller for many of the nation' s top turkey hunters. With it, a hunter can make virtually every sound in a turkey' s vocabulary from yelps to purrs to gobbles. Using a tube call takes practice and patience.
The first patented commercial tube call was made by Kenny Morgan of Morgan' s Turkey Callers in 1972. Commercial tube calls are refined and tuned to give the user the best possible sounds. But a tube call is a very simple device, which you can actually make at home. It is a tube with latex stretched over the calling end. A tube call can be easily made by following these simple tips:
Materials needed:
* Pill bottle or 35mm film canister with lid
* A powderless latex glove
* A sharp knife
* A pair of scissors
Directions:
* Cut off the bottom of the canister or bottle.
* Cut a half circle in the lid.
* From the glove, cut a three-inch by two-inch strip of latex.
* Place the latex over the top of the canister so that it lines up with the hole in the cap, creating a thin gap across the lid hole.
* The cap will hold the latex in place.
* Stretch or loosen the latex to get the desired sounds.
* Practice, Practice, Practice.
Once the call is made, exhale air across the stretched latex, which vibrates and makes the turkey sounds. By moving your lips over the latex and moving your jaw up and down, you can change the pitch and tone of the sounds.
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Thanks Bob...I will also be giving one of those a try. They also had instructions in last month' s issue of Turkey Call magazine. It is so simple and inexpensive to make why not give one a try?
i' ve got an old one made by Ben Lee and a new one by HS Strut. The one thing I like about them is the volumn. You can get them really loud on a windy day or for out west where you have to cover a lot of ground sometimes. And they do make a nice kee kee run.
Any tube callers here???
