A friend told me he heard of some ways to make home made turkey calls i tried running a search but was also wondering if any of you guys try making your on calls and if so maybe you could let us know how thanks for any help
Dave
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Golden Eagle
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Heres a custom call forum.
You can check it out.
http://www.customcalls.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl
Good Luck and go at it and have some fun,
I have been turning some predator calls to kill the winter blues till turkey and fishing season arrive.
[img][img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/ ... Calls4.jpg[/img][/img]
You can check it out.
http://www.customcalls.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl
Good Luck and go at it and have some fun,
I have been turning some predator calls to kill the winter blues till turkey and fishing season arrive.
[img][img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/ ... Calls4.jpg[/img][/img]
In the latest issue of Field and Stream, they show you how to make a snuff can call for turkeys, if that can be of help.
Old Indian saying, if a leaf falls from a tree in the woods the turkey will see it, the deer will hear it, the bear will smell it, the moose will not eat it, but be on the look-out for LeGrand.
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Woody Williams
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To make your own check out...
http://www.customsawing.com/
This guys makes GREAT custom friction calls..
http://www.kaiserkalls.com/
http://www.customsawing.com/
This guys makes GREAT custom friction calls..
http://www.kaiserkalls.com/
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Woody Williams
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You mean from scratch?TYE wrote:Do you have any sights that show you how to make a slate or box call?
The site I gave you sells box call kits.
http://www.customsawing.com/Calls.htm
...and here are there directions for finishing a kit..
http://www.customsawing.com/BCDIRECTIONS.PDF
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For fun
Digger,
I limit my callmaking to predator calls now. I had some problems with the deer call reeds and have stopped selling deer calls until I find a better reed design. For my turkey calls I use a homemade wingbone call.
My wingbone call was easy to make and sound great, but they do take a lot of practice to get the sounds down right. The only problem is you need to have a turkey before you can make the call (and an understanding wife doesn't hurt when you get out her good cookware to boil the bones
). My wife simply said if I ruined her good cooking pot she was going to ruin a good cast iron skillet - over my head! 
We're still cooking on cast iron, so that should tell you it turned out with no damage to the cookware.
Online instructions for building a wingbone call can be viewed at
http://www.customcalls.com/makeawingbonecall1.htm
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I limit my callmaking to predator calls now. I had some problems with the deer call reeds and have stopped selling deer calls until I find a better reed design. For my turkey calls I use a homemade wingbone call.
My wingbone call was easy to make and sound great, but they do take a lot of practice to get the sounds down right. The only problem is you need to have a turkey before you can make the call (and an understanding wife doesn't hurt when you get out her good cookware to boil the bones
). My wife simply said if I ruined her good cooking pot she was going to ruin a good cast iron skillet - over my head! We're still cooking on cast iron, so that should tell you it turned out with no damage to the cookware.
Online instructions for building a wingbone call can be viewed at
http://www.customcalls.com/makeawingbonecall1.htm
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gutpile,
Having Shawnee and Cherokee in my bloodlines I could say we still do make them, but we use the sap of the epoxy tree nowdays.
Actually the small bone can be used alone or only two bones can be used. The larger bones tend to amplify and/or direct the sound better, though. The wingbone call can be very effective, but again, it takes practice! To get the sound you must make a kissing (smooching) sound with your lips while holding the call between your lips. The location of the call on the lips, and the depth the call is inserted between the lips are major factors in the resulting sounds you get. Only practice will let you get the sounds perfected. You can even practice with the barrel from a ball-point pen to see if you can develop the "knack" for using a wingbone. Simply take a cheap plastic ball-point pen and unscrew the barrel to use for practice. Wet your lips, insert the call (I simply pinch the call between my thumb & finger as a depth gauge with about 3/16" of the small bone protruding) between the lips (I hold the call on the right side of my mouth about half an inch off center) and make a kissing noise. At first the sounds (if any) may sound unlike any turkey you'll ever hear, but with practice it becomes easy to make turkey talk with it. Very few hunters spend the time to learn the wingbone call, and it can be a great call for pressured gobblers. I also use a box call, and diaghpram call to add variety to the calling. There are also times when the best hunting method is to simply get set up where the turkeys are going to pass nearby, and be motionless and silent! Ambushing them doesn't hurt the taste a bit!
Having Shawnee and Cherokee in my bloodlines I could say we still do make them, but we use the sap of the epoxy tree nowdays.
Actually the small bone can be used alone or only two bones can be used. The larger bones tend to amplify and/or direct the sound better, though. The wingbone call can be very effective, but again, it takes practice! To get the sound you must make a kissing (smooching) sound with your lips while holding the call between your lips. The location of the call on the lips, and the depth the call is inserted between the lips are major factors in the resulting sounds you get. Only practice will let you get the sounds perfected. You can even practice with the barrel from a ball-point pen to see if you can develop the "knack" for using a wingbone. Simply take a cheap plastic ball-point pen and unscrew the barrel to use for practice. Wet your lips, insert the call (I simply pinch the call between my thumb & finger as a depth gauge with about 3/16" of the small bone protruding) between the lips (I hold the call on the right side of my mouth about half an inch off center) and make a kissing noise. At first the sounds (if any) may sound unlike any turkey you'll ever hear, but with practice it becomes easy to make turkey talk with it. Very few hunters spend the time to learn the wingbone call, and it can be a great call for pressured gobblers. I also use a box call, and diaghpram call to add variety to the calling. There are also times when the best hunting method is to simply get set up where the turkeys are going to pass nearby, and be motionless and silent! Ambushing them doesn't hurt the taste a bit!
wabi