Turkey hunters are constantly looking for tips to improve their hunting ability and success rate. In this article I am going to give you a tip about your mouth calls and using them. I would really take this advice to heart. Once I figured this out, it saved me quite a bit of money. It also improved my hunting because I always keep good quality sounding turkey calls.
The plain truth is that it is a toss up finding a good turkey mouth call. Most of the calls out there are mass produced and usually tuned very poorly. I have pretty much quit buying the big name brand calls that you can buy at your local discount retail store. If you do want to try some of them, stick to the pro-series of the particular brand you are buying. They usually retain some of their quality and tone.
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My best mouth calls have come from some of the less available brands of calls. These have included Pittman, Heart of Dixie, and Woodhaven. Woodhaven, usually, has the most consistent sound from call to call. What I mean is, if I bought five Hornet mouth calls at the same time from Woodhaven, they would all sound almost identical. It is not that way with many other brands of mouth calls.
The mouth call that I had that turkeys seemed to respond to best was the Pittman Black Diamond. However, I did not take care of it and the reeds wore out. I probably bought ten more before I found one that sounded close to the first one and it still didn't measure up.
The moral of the story is: When you find a mouth call that sounds good and turkeys come to it really well, guard it with your life. Every day after I get through using my calls they get washed, disinfected, and stored in the freezer. Not refrigerator freezer. It will extend the life of a mouth call ten times over. I have a really productive mouth call from Heart of Dixie that I have been using for seven years. When you keep them this long you really need to keep them disinfected because you can pass germs form one year to the next.
Take this tips to heart because they will make it much easier to find and keep good calls. I have been hunting turkeys for twenty years the tips that I just gave you have been a blessing to me. I hope you benefit from them in the future.
Mouth Call Tips From a Turkey Hunting Expert
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