most favored call

[Gobble Doc]

What call do you prefer for a regular turkey hunt sitting under a tree? Slate, box, or diaphram?

[Bigtine96]

Slate all the way for me, has never let me down

[RadSav]

I'm an "All The Above" turkey chaser.  Sometimes I want the soft purr and yelp of a slate.  Sometimes little more volume and hands free of the diaphragm.  And other times I want crisp clucks or the yelp of the box.  Why do you think turkey vests have so many pockets?  I think it is specially for call junkies like myself that will try almost anything once.

[foambeetle]

 

BUT if you made me pick just one...mouth diaphragm because of hands free

[turkeydancer]

My favorites are diaphragms, but use boxs, pots, tube calls or snuff boxes, wing bone, push pulls, scratch boxes, hat slaps, raking leaves ............

[WAcoyotehunter]

diaphragm calls 95% of the time.  Sometimes I use a slate.

I HATE all the damn gimmicks on mouth calls nowadays.  I have a hard time finding a plain old call without 'cups' or other BS.

[ghosthunter]

I have them all and will use whatever seems to fire up the Voodoo Chickens.

[dawei]

Hunter Specialties® Ring Zone® Slate Pot call with a Hickory Cross Cut Striker. Sounds sweeter than any pot call I've ever used.

[HornHoarder]

Box call for me.

[yelp]

Slate 

[BOWHUNTER45]

diaphram ....primos   

[EDT]

I use a turkey wing bone, have had real good luck with it.

[Wacenturion]

My favorite without hesitation is a custom glass over slate friction call made by a southern gentleman I will refrain from naming.  His calls are now extremely expensive if you can find one, as he has retired from call making.  Absolutely the most realistic call I have ever used, and I have quite a collection.   Lets just say if I could only keep one call.....it would be that one without even pausing to think about it.  Deadly.

[kevinlisa06]

I have quite an assortment of calls that I take in my vest but the main 3 that I use are a Red Head Jerry Martin Box call made of Mahogany/Sycamore the wife calls it the red headed slut, a Primos Power Crystal with a purple heart striker and then my slate also a Primos call the Wicked Hen with an oak striker. My Howard House slate call has been retired  to the shelf to preserve it.