Well, I brought up this topic to see what all kinds of products or "little known" secrets may be floating around out there. I've been hunting these birds for a little over 25 years and I'm not easily duped. I'll try a new product out, sometimes, just to test convenience or some other aspect, but I usually expect to give up some quality -- if it works at all.

I have even been known to collect my own pine rosin from wounds in trees and melt, strain, and crush the rosin to put on boxes when chalk just doesn't measure up -- with pretty good success. But, I recently came across a product called RainChalk that has absolutely astounded me in what it can do for a weak boxcall -- one that doesn't bite well and wants to squeak. It goes on as easily as chalk and the guy who makes it swears that you can treat your slate pots with it and run them under water. (I told him that I didn't think that the guy who made my custom holly/slate pot would appreciate that[&:].) But he also demonstrated how to treat a striker with it and have it last about half a season without sanding the tip. I can attest to the fact that the stuff does give you a lot more bite on a box, but I haven't fully tested the striker and pot applications.


Any other secret weapons out there?