ALL GAME PRODUCTS COME WITH MOUTH CALLS

 

Storage and Maintenance
Caring for your diaphragm calls is very important to maintain ultimate performance. You should tend to your mouth calls all season long. Here are a few tips for prolonging the life of your diaphragm calls.

• After use, be sure to rinse them with a mouthwash and water mixture or use tap water. Once they have been cleaned, carefully dry them with a towel or paper towel. Insert a toothpick between the top and bottom reeds. Then allow them to air dry for several hours, DO NOT SET THEM IN THE SUN. Once you have left them dry you can then remove the toothpick(s) and place them back in some sort of bag or container. Store them in a cool, dark place afterwards.

• Heat is a very big problem with mouth calls. If you leave your mouth call out in the sun or in your vehicle this can damage the latex. This will cause the latex to expand and will ultimately affect the sound quality and also lifespan of the mouth call.

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Mouth Call Instructions

To call, use your tongue to fit the diaphragm against the roof of your mouth. Face the straight edge forward. Try for a tight air seal. Now put your tongue lightly against the reed or reeds.

To yelp, push air between the top of your tongue and the reed. Saying words as you do this can help.

When yelping on a mouth call using likely the words “chick,” chirp,” “chop” or “chalk”. Whichever word you choose for this vocalization, make your yelps with snapping, beaklike lips — just as a turkey would.

 

To cluck, say “pock” or “puck” as you call.

 

To purr, make a fluttering sound with your throat or tongue as you expel air across the reeds.

 

For cutting, run clucks together in a fast series.

 

To cackle, make variable clucks and yelps to imitate a turkey flying from the roost.

 

Fall turkey hunters often kee-kee or kee-kee-run.

To kee-kee on a mouth call, say “pee-pee-pee” as you put more tongue pressure on the reed. Keep the notes rising with lost urgency — as when a young turkey is separated from a family flock. To add the “run” part, say “chalk-chalk” after the kee-kee.

Running your mouth diaphragm call with the right number, rhythm, length, volume, spacing and pitch of notes will improve your turkey calling game. Listen to real birds. Learn from your mistakes as you practice. Soon you’ll be able to make the many turkey sounds and trick a wild bird into range.

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Pot Call Instructions

Hold the pot, striking surface up, with your thumb in the nine o’clock position and middle finger at three o’clock. Grip the peg like a pencil, thumb in the striker’s center. You can make a variety of turkey calls by varying the stroke pattern. All vocalizations require keeping the peg tip on the surface.

 

To cluck, put the peg’s tip on the striking surface. Angle it slightly inward with pressure and pull it toward you. Cluck softly with less pressure; louder and deeper with more.

 

To yelp, draw small ovals on the pot’s surface. As with clucking, less pressure makes softer yelps.

 

To purr, draw a slow line across the surface, as if the turkey were walking or feeding. Make these lines in an agitated way to imitate fighting purrs.

 

To imitate cutting (fast clucking) keep the peg’s tip on the surface as with the other calls. Stroke as if clucking, but repeat rapidly multiple times.

 

Learning how to use a slate call takes time. Listen to the birds you hunt to imitate their vocalizations. Matching your sounds to those made by real wild turkeys requires practice — before, during and after the season.

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Box Call Instructions

 

To cluck on a box call, pop the paddle off the call’s lip with short upward strokes.

 

To yelp, lightly scrape and stroke the paddle across the lip.

 

To mimic cutting, make fast clucks with sharply repeated pops along the lip.

 

To imitate a fly-down cackle, make a few soft clucks, then excitedly stroke the paddle against the call’s lip repeatedly before finishing with varying yelps and clucks.

 

To purr, slowly drag the paddle across the lip.

 

To gobble, wrap a rubber band around the paddle and rest of the box call — the way you might to keep it from making a sound as you walk. Grip the box call without touching the lid. While holding the handle end up, shake it.

 

To kee-kee or kee-kee-run, find the paddle’s sweet spot — often one-quarter to one-third of the lid length down from the hinge screw. Make three whistle-like notes against the lip using a fast yelping motion. Add a yelp or two on the end to make the “run” notes. Long boxes often work best for kee-keeing.

 

 

Tune your box call with chalk, rubbing it along the paddle’s bottom. Avoid oil-based options. Carpenter’s chalk works best. Be sure to keep it dry in your vest as well — a plastic bag will do. Waterproof box calls are also available.

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