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Well I made a double reed based on photos, looking at ones in the store, and an online tutorial at instructables.com.

I had made several that I could barely make a sound out of, and finally decided the reed needed to be bigger. Bigger frame, bigger reed, and it worked.

I figured out how to cluck and cutt, but will need practice to do it consistently well. I am working on the yelp 'cause we know that's important. I got the high, mid, low notes down separately, but putting them together into a yelp is difficult. Then I'll have to learn purrs.

I hear it can take a lot of people a good while to master the mouth call so I'm not getting discouraged by slow progress. If I'm lucky I'll be good enough by turkey season.

Might also pick up a store bought one for comparison and to help improve on the ones I make.

In case you didn't catch the hint in my other posts, I love to make stuff myself, especially calls...I also want to grab some spraypaint and tools and convert a cheap camping tent to a pop-up blind.

And I just finished making a hen decoy which I hope will be good...I have to admit it looks pretty real (I can still buy one from the store of course)...maybe I should post a pic of that decoy as well (who wants to see it?)

I don't have a pic of the mouth call, anyway it's just the latex reed in a frame wrapped in camo duct tape...won't hold up forever but I can make one in 5 minutes.
 
a couple shots of the decoy. it is 3d even though the snow and overcast skies make it look flat.

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Stay after it man, thats how things get finished, all the top name call makers had to start some wher.

As far as the decoy goes the way I see it when it comes to breed'n (human or animal) a given oppertunity (and a room tempature corpse) is all it takes, ol tom turkey'll be think'n " she looks better at a distance but since I'm here...
 
Yeah I'll see how the calls turn out after practice...and I guess I'll have to see how the decoy does in the field because that's the only way to test it. I figure it will work better than those cheap inflatable ones you can buy. I'll probably also buy a cheap foam decoy from wally world, again for comparison, and use both in the field. I just want a hen to stick in the ground and help bring the gobbler into range. I am shy from using strutting tom decoys because that's the reason I didn't shoot a gobbler last spring, he shied away after spotting a strutting decoy. I guess only a boss tom will go for that.
 
catman529 said:
Yeah I'll see how the calls turn out after practice...and I guess I'll have to see how the decoy does in the field because that's the only way to test it. I figure it will work better than those cheap inflatable ones you can buy. I'll probably also buy a cheap foam decoy from wally world, again for comparison, and use both in the field. I just want a hen to stick in the ground and help bring the gobbler into range. I am shy from using strutting tom decoys because that's the reason I didn't shoot a gobbler last spring, he shied away after spotting a strutting decoy. I guess only a boss tom will go for that.
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a strutting jake works really well set up with the hen
 
Yep I bet it would if I do it right...in fact today I was watching videos on youtube of the pretty boy and that's not even a jake, it's full sized and they were getting beat up badly...I guess it has to do with which toms are dominant and how realistic the decoy looks...
 
The decoy is plenty realistic, I used a $10 foam one that got so bad and started ripping, I stuffed that hen decoy with leaves, ran a piece of fishing line from my blind to the decoy to pull it and give it more action, and I even used a random stick from in the woods as the legs, and heck I probably killed atleast 5 toms with that decoy alone, and if that call you made is half as good as that tube call you made, then it will work just fine
 
Thanks Blount I hope the decoy works, it is on the small side, but I guess there are some smaller hens out there that a tom would be happy to breed. It's maybe around 2 1/2 feet head to tail.

Been making a lot of mouth calls, just messing around with double reeds and cutting notches and stuff, and getting better at yelps (pretty much got clucks and cutts down) and working on purrs. I still want to buy one from wally world for comparison. Using the same cheap latex gloves for the mouth calls that I use for the tube calls.
 
How thick is the latex? if you use a thin latex would probably give you a little better reed control. I am just guessing here as i dont make calls but my experience with mouth calls i like the ones with thin latex. They dont seem to require as much air and produces sharper notes.
 
it's pretty thin if you ask me, maybe they make thinner but this is from very cheap disposable latex gloves from the grocery store. The tube call sounds great with this latex and I just put a double reed on the tube call to give it a raspy sound (sounds good so far). I tried making a mouth call with a synthetic non-latex glove but it was too thick and not good enough to make the right sound. also tried that on a tube call and got the same results. The cheap glove latex seems to work really well even though it cracks after a lot of use.
 
The size of the decoy will do just fine, I have seen hens that size in the woods before, so I'm sure that ol tom has too, but placement is the key, I prefer to place it 20 yds behind me from the direction I think he is gonna come, my reason for this is that if he hangs up at 50- 60 yds from the decoy to wait it out and let the hen come to him, he will still be in range for a clean kill, now it doesn't always work out as planned, but what hunt ever does?
 

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