RE: Box calls vs. Scatch calls (advice)
There is alot of choices I know and all of them say they are the best. BUt I've found the Knigh&Hale glass queen to be the best of cheap calls. On my turkey I killed this year my dad was running all of these custom hand-made calls and I brought out the ol' glass queen and did one yellp after all his and one gobbled80 yds behind us. And dekes are very helpful because as staed they have great hearing and 5-10x better eyesight than humans. So a decoy takes the attention of your call that he can pinpoint when he gets relativleyclose.It's not necesary to learn on a diphragm but it's very helpful when he could see you move and you need to cluck to get him outof a strut is he is. BTWthe way I learned on apot call is by making little footballs with your striker. A man from woodhaven taught me that and now I'vehad a company ask me to call for them. I'm not bragging or anything I'm just sayin' the football thing worked. But it will take practice before you get it right.