I've been building them for a few years but just bought my grizzly lathe last year. There's something about turning your own call and striker that really enhances the experience of a hunt. I'm turning a Ziricote striker right now for a pretty unique crystal call I'm going to try out.

You probably will run into a pretty good crowd at choccolocco on opening weekend. But if you get in there early and play your cards right you might have some luck. You don't have people from just oxford and anniston coming in either. Piedmont and Jacksonville bring a lot of people down highway 9 and part of the wma is in Heflin so they bring in some regulars too. You'll run into a lot of Jacksonville college kids who come down to hunt because it's the cool thing to do and they heard their frat buddies talking about it.