RE: Box Call Chalk
Jim, I should have told you to get the kids a junker call, LOL[/align][/align]Lets start by saying all chalk has some oil or wax content or it wouldn't hold together. I don't care for a dusty chalk, white is generaly too dusty for my like'n. The blue carpenters chalk (paintable) seams to work all right but I hate all that blue. The red/brown seams almost gooey, don't care for that either. And, the green stuff just doesn't sound right.[/align]I like Lynches box call chalk, it use to be a light brown but is now an off-white color. My neighbor use to have a Lynches box call. After season, he put it in a drawer that also had a can of gun oil in it. Just by being in the same drawer, the oil killed the box call. I don't figure Lynches chalk contains any oil.[/align]There should be no need to chalk the lip but I supose this could be a preferance thing. I occasionaly dust off the lip. When I first chalk up my box call, I will Gobble on it to break in the angle wings or W on the underside of the paddle. A well tuned box call shouldn't require a truckload of chalk to efectively produce good Turkey vocalizations.[/align][/align]