How many people use a tube call?

[REN]

the locator call thread got me thinking.....how many people have or still use a tube call? if you have or still do what is your opinion of it?

I have only met 2 other guys that used them in my turkey hunting days (bout 10 years) but both guys were some of the best callers/hunters i have ever been around. I learned so much from them about calling and whatnot. I have seen both do some AMAZING things with a tube call and can make it sound EXACTLY like a jake gobble its almost scary how good it sounds! I started using what years ago and have had alot of success with it. of course it took me a year or 2 to even come close to a gobble sound but man if you can get it down it can be so deadly. like all calls it wont work all the time but in the age of so many gadgets and calls to me it is just something a turkey doesn't hear often from a hunter.

anyways just wondering how many people still actually carry a tube call with them (not a dang shaker an actual tube all)

 

[go_okfishin]

I used to use one til the latex tore. I think mine was a Knight and Hale. Very realistic sound. I now gobble with my mouth calls when I need to.

 

[REN]

yeah i go through them pretty good but you can get a kit from Knight and Hale for like 3$ for 6 reeds. I have never used any of the plastic ones only wooden custom ones.

I started practicing with a mouth call last year but have not mastered it yet

 

[Setterman]

I can't yelp on one to save my life, but I can gobble like a 5 year old longbeard on one, which is the only reason I still carry it, for the times when I need to crank off a full blown gobble at a bird, and gobbling with my voice isn't going to be loud enough to achieve the desired results.

I hunt with a guy who runs a tube call like Charlie Daniels on a fiddle, and it sounds great and birds will really hammer it most times.

Another off the wall call which is really effective at times is a trumpet. In the right hands it is deadly.

 

[bvoss]

I don't use one, but if you can, you are gonna be in better shape. Alex Rutledge uses his to locate birds on the HS strut DVD. The more options you have the better.

 

[tndad]

seldom use the tube call
only when I've been out too late and had toooooo much of a good time , do I use the tube call in the morning. :whistle:

 

[Anonymous]

I bought one a couple years ago to try it out, it takes more practice than I figured but I really like it now, I just have to practice up before season get around.

The one I got I think is made by primos, you can by extra diaphrams for it but I read somewher that dental dam works great.

A guy I work with uses one and brought it to work to show me how it sounds and after I heard it I bought one a day or two later, one of my faves now, but would like to have a costom tube.