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.

I'm right in line with paintbrush.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.