Need a turkey call?

[yelp]

How about this one from Neil Cost on ebay? 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Neil-Cost-experimental-Boat-Paddle-turkey-box-call_W0QQitemZ270333822449QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item270333822449&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72:1205|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318|301:1|293:1|294:50

[NWTFhunter]

Ya thats a hell of a deal. Buy it and then let me try it out for you !!

[Gobble]

Make your own, thats what I did. Nothing like killing a turkey with a call you made your self

[Gobble]

That is absolutely insane, its not even that nice of a call. 

[Wacenturion]

It not how it looks....it's how it sounds.  No one better than Neil Cost......may he rest in peace.

[NWTFhunter]

I want to come accross a garage sale one day and find that Cost call that the seller has no idea what it is.


Neil was/is the best call maker to set foot on this earth.  End of discussion

[EastWaViking]

19 bucks for a primos power crystal and I'm ready to go.  But it's just like anything you get into, there are the cheap things that work and the spendy things that work. 

[Wacenturion]

These calls are more of a sought after collectible than an everyday use call.  Had a chance years ago to order a couple calls from Neil, just never got in line......DUMB!
Do have several calls (boxes and paddles) from his best understudy....Lamar Williams.  About as nice as they get.  Had to wait several years to get them after ordering.  My all time favorite is one of the calls I have from a gentleman in Tennessee.....Frank Cox.  Would never ever part with it....unbelievably deadly. 
Although some custom calls seem high priced, especially from the masters, of which many have passed, they are a genuine piece of Americana.  They didn't just mass produce calls, they made each one like it was for themselves.  If it didn't sound right, it was destroyed, not sold.......just like fine musical instruments.

[NWTFhunter]

Spot on Wa !

I think if I ever saw a guy in the woods using a Cost call, I would shoot him!  They are like no other call out there.

On a close comparisson, Last year I was out with a friend from NY that had never hunted here for turkey.  We were doing our thing, and ran into a couple of guys out in the woods, later that day when we were heading out we stopped and chatted with them.  One of the guys said Howard in his sentence, and when he was done I asked if he meant House?  He said yes, would you like to see our calls.  I was like  and they start digging them out of their packs that they were hunting with.  They pulled out about 6 calls, 2 that had been badly damaged 
I was almost sick to my stomache when the one guy said, " Oh I sat on that one last year" when I asked why is was cracked !!!!!!  Im sure Howard is up there smacking his forehead!

There are calls you take in the field, and there are calls that you say... you touch that I will break your fingers !
Cost calls fall into the latter.

[yelp]

I knew Howard for several years..he made me a few calls.   After he passed away I put them away.  I have a small collection that I leave home.  Collecting turkey calls has gained in popularity in the las 10-15 years.  Neil Cost is right up at the top with Gibson or Turpin....Lots of old Lynch models too. 

[PA BEN]

No way in hell I'd pay that much for a call. I made a boat paddle call out of poplar w/ a walnut lid. Called in tons of toms with it.

[yelp]

Yeah I would have to take out a loan...lol...That would be a funny conversation at the bank trying to explain you want a loan to pay for a turkey call!  I have made my own too. IT is gratifying to call in turkey with something you made.  Kind of like tying your own flies and catching a fat trout.  It gives me something to do in the winter to.

[Gutpile]

Think I'll pass.   My $10.00 quaker boy will just have to do. 

[Wacenturion]

No way in hell I'd pay that much for a call. I made a boat paddle call out of poplar w/ a walnut lid. Called in tons of toms with it.

I doubt if many people would pay that much for a call.  But there are some.  Again it about collecting, not using.  I know I've spent some money on calls over the years.....not that I've spent 3k for one call like the one advertised, but several hundred on some.  I enjoy them and hunt with many of them, but I'm damn careful when they go to the field.
Yeah I could use an off the shelf inexpensive call and get birds in....but it's just not the same for me.  The only off the shelf call that I have purchased and value is the Lynch (made in Alabama) call I purchased in South Carolina in 1966.  I have even picked up a couple more of the same early Lynch call over the years.
   

[yelp]

Found another one...a little cheaper

http://cgi.ebay.com/LYNCH-WORLD-CHAMPION-CALL-TURKEY-IN-THE-PINES-1940s_W0QQitemZ190282155112QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item190282155112&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66:2|65:3|39:1|240:1318