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turkey wing bone call
« on: July 07, 2008, 11:17:02 pm »
Hey all. Made this call and five others like it last weekend using ber643's build along for directions. They all came out great. I put up a flyer at the local Gander Mountain store that offer to trade turkey hunters their wing feathers in return for a call made for them out of their turkey's bones. I got 4 takers. some had broken bones but I did manage to make 6 complete calls. One I traded a guy at work for a whole buckskin which is what the lanyard on this call is made from. And I had one left over for me. Life is good!

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Re: turkey wing bone call
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2008, 12:14:58 am »
nice,

 do they sound as good as they look?


thats a great way to get feathers too
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Re: turkey wing bone call
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2008, 03:57:15 am »
Looks good to me  :)
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Re: turkey wing bone call
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2008, 05:35:05 am »
Very nice call,I have a couple but have to be in the right frame of mind to use them
and also have to spit my snuff out. ;) ;D
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Re: turkey wing bone call
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2008, 08:30:28 am »
Yeah they sound great. The smaller sized ones sound better to me than the really big ones. They are higher pitched and have a very clean tone like a young hen yelp. The big ones you get from really large toms sound like a gobbler yelp. hopefully the people that gave up wings for calls this year will tell their friends so I can get more feathers. I'd like to get to were I have to buy as little as possible. :)

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Re: turkey wing bone call
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2008, 10:11:09 am »
Great looking call.  Good idea on the flier to make a trade. 

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Re: turkey wing bone call
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2008, 05:30:12 pm »
  Very nice looking call. You are right when you say the smaller bones sound more like hens. Sometimes these calls are the only thing I've found that will bring a hung up gobbler to ya'. Here's one I put together from hen bones, it's very high pitched. I'll pretty it up with Pygmy Rattler skins when I get back. I made Hillbilly one and the skins looked pretty good.

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Re: turkey wing bone call
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2008, 07:03:08 pm »
Cool ! I would have to say there my favorite call to use !
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Re: turkey wing bone call
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2008, 07:20:08 pm »
i seen a guy use a drinking straw once as a wing bone type call,sounded better than any suction call i've ever heard and i've heard lots of calls(mostly all in my vest)

yup they say hen wing bones sound like a hen,jakes like jakes and tom like toms.

hopefully i'll get drawn for fall season in our lottery,then we can legally shoot hens. then i'll make a couple hen wingbone calls for my self.

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Re: turkey wing bone call
« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2008, 10:26:11 pm »
Aaron- Nice looking call, sweet trade on the buckskin. 
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Re: turkey wing bone call
« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2008, 06:14:43 pm »
Here is a hen call I made from a road kill. I used ultrawire to tie on the keeper on this one.

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Re: turkey wing bone call
« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2008, 10:03:57 pm »
Road kill-   You got to love making stuff from dead animals you find on the road.  I look back on missing the opportunity on that turkey on Dead Turkey Hill Road. ;D 
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Re: turkey wing bone call
« Reply #12 on: July 09, 2008, 11:47:49 pm »
that thing stunk forever! I don't think you were missing anything. :)