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Post by hawkeyes on May 30, 2023 6:08:45 GMT -7
Made a pair of wingbone calls from my turkey harvest this past fall. Excellent little fireside project with an amazing end result. Pitch glue and deer leg/ back sinew hold them together tight for a durable joint.  |
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Post by spence on Jun 2, 2023 12:23:20 GMT -7
Those are very nice, Hawkeyes.
Have you learned to use them well enough to call in a tom using only one of those? I've taken birds using them, but never just them. I have always paired them with a box call, slate or other friction call.
BTW, does anyone have a reference to turkey calls of any type being used in the 18th century? I only recall two which I've collected, and I think both of them involve the sound of a turkey being made with the voice, not with any type of a turkey call.
Rebels and Redcoaats:The American Revolution Through the Eyes of Those Who Fought and Lived it, 1957, George F. Scheer and Hugh F Rankin
pg.175 Battle of Saratoga, Col. James Wilkinson: "I then turned around to regain the camp and report...when my ears were saluted by an uncommon noise which I approached and perceived Colonel [Daniel] Morgan, attended by two men only, who with a turkey call was collecting his dispersed troops."
The Pennsylvania Gazette
January 17, 1760
NEW HAVEN, December 29. Tuesday Morning, the 17th instant, sundry Persons in Judea went out to hunt Turkeys, one Josiah Basset, of the same Place, hearing of the Turkeys, intending to have the first Chance, want also after them, unknown to, and unknowing of the rest; and getting first to the Place where the Turkeys were, was creeping in the Bushes on his Hands and Knees, in order to get up to them; meanwhile the rest surrounded the Place, and one James Baker having started one of the Turkey it flew and alighted near the Place where Josiah Basset was, who had on a dark gray Bearskin Coat, and had taken off his Hat and Cap, and his hair being short and black, Baker saw the Glimpse of him through the bushes, and his Hair and Parts of his Coat resembling the Color and having as then seen the Appearance of a Turkey, Baker hesitated whether he should shoot or not, when Basset made a Noise, imitating the Cry of a Turkey, which he did very exactly, when Baker fired, at the distance of 6 Rods, and shot a Ball through his Vitals, and sundry other shot into his Body, he gave one Scream, and the Company run up, but found him dead, one Hand only having a little Motion.
Spence
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Post by brokennock on Jun 2, 2023 14:58:00 GMT -7
I've only called in a jake with a wing-bone call once but it was in conjunction with a slate. Yelp on the wing-bone then soft purrs and clocks with the slate, very soft, and some scratching in the leaf litter around me. I have called a tom in with just my voice, but was not in a place I could shoot him,,, was just for fun.
I seem to recall a story about a native calling like a turkey near a fort and then killing men from the fort who came out to try to get the turkey they thought they heard. A ranger from the fort eventually turned the trick around on the native, but I think this was all done with just the voice.
Little side note,,, I've also gotten the same turkey call produced with my pipe. The 1st time, entirely by accident....
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