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Mouth call for me, unless its really windy. Then I will use a box call to start with and if things go well, I'll finish off with the mouth call.

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I'm right in line with paintbrush.:)

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i have 2 mouth calls, two slates and i like starting with one of the slates(my quaker boy 4-1) then when they are close i like my MAD mouth call. ppprrrfect for prrring

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I prefer to use the "peg and pot" style calls first when I can. But sometimes, weather conditions and the turkey's mood dictates otherwise, then I'll pull out the mouth call or a box call or a combination of all of them.

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I use tube calls that I make myself out of a film cannister and condoms. I carry all the calls you list and then some (drummer, gobblers, wing-beater, push-pull, etc) - maybe 30+ calls or so. But the tube call is a bread and butter call for me -I can yelp loud or soft as the situation demands, throw sounds off to the side or behind, and do a reasonable cluck on it. It is easy to inject intonation into the tube call (shyness, aggressiveness, or neutrality). But the KEY is that the birds in some of the areas I hunt have already been educated on box calls, mouth calls, and slates before the season even starts - they haven't heard my tube call yet...
However, once a bird is interested in me, I do switch over to my slate or Penn's Woods Lucky Clucker to finish him off... Also, the mouth call is always in there, if I need to gobble, yelp, purr, kee-kee, or just sound like a different bird...
-fsh

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I'm going to have to go with:

1. Mouth call - hands free operation
2. Glass slate call - Sounds sweet
3. Box call - My cherry/cherry sounds pretty sweet

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The H.S Strutt Viper is my favorite call. It is a diaphram and it sounds perfect to me. That is my opinion, and I think it is te best diaphram on the market.;)

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I like a good slate call but I often switch to a mouth call to be hands free when the bird is getting closer. Old Yeller is my favorite slate. Tried a few box calls but haven't been able to consistantly produce good sound from them.

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slate call .rod bensons snapen craken combo.best slate of all many birds have it the ground because of this call.


go deep hunt hard.;)