coyote.204
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Hey just thought it would be cool to see what your guys favorite call on your own personnel lanyard is? You guys must have some sweet looking calls! Love to see some pics!!
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tjones
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Funny thing you bring this up. I am working on a set for myself now, before Oct. when I start calling. It will be my first set built for myself.
The wood is some I cut a year and a half ago from a spot I hunt coyotes near and also near where I hunt elk. While not the most fancy wood, it is a special wood. Guess thats why I chose it.
Right now my lanyard sports calls not worthy of pics. I have calls with splits, cracks and screwed up finishes, the equilvent of a mechanics car. I would be ashamed to take pics of what hangs around my neck. But that going to change shortly.
Pics to follow.
The wood is some I cut a year and a half ago from a spot I hunt coyotes near and also near where I hunt elk. While not the most fancy wood, it is a special wood. Guess thats why I chose it.
Right now my lanyard sports calls not worthy of pics. I have calls with splits, cracks and screwed up finishes, the equilvent of a mechanics car. I would be ashamed to take pics of what hangs around my neck. But that going to change shortly.
Pics to follow.
cbosshog79
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I haven't built a call in quite a while but my lanyard always looked like how Tony is describing his.
I have one of mine on my lanyard but in all honesty my go-to calls have been the physco tweety, a FrankenTweety from Trashcan and one of Tony Tebbe's open reed horn tip calls for the past few years.
I have quite a few of the CCM's calls here and switch them out from time to time in the field but most of the time I keep them for display in my office. It's funny how it works but even though allot of calls sound very similar it is easy to get "comfortable" with one certain call and go back to that one time and time again.
I have one of mine on my lanyard but in all honesty my go-to calls have been the physco tweety, a FrankenTweety from Trashcan and one of Tony Tebbe's open reed horn tip calls for the past few years.
I have quite a few of the CCM's calls here and switch them out from time to time in the field but most of the time I keep them for display in my office. It's funny how it works but even though allot of calls sound very similar it is easy to get "comfortable" with one certain call and go back to that one time and time again.
TNYotehntr
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Well to be honest except for a few occasions... (I've used a buddy's, Bowhunt32 (Dale's) howler) but usually, I only use my own.
On top it's a mini type howler I made years ago, the barrel is "Micarta"...a pair of my wifes blue jeans rolled up in fiberglass resin... I like to think she gets a little tickle when I howl with this.
Below it is one of my enclosed reed calls voiced cottontail, it is a Concinna burl barrel, Hippo Ivory bead, buffalo horn mouth piece with warthog ivory tusk insert. Next to it is a Honduran Rosewood burl barrel Elk Ivory bead and Antler toneboards. (made before I found some ivory
) it has my 5/32" air channeled tone board. Next to it is Brown Mallee, Elk bead, antler toneboard 3/16 toneboard. I guess I fall into the, "I started making calls for myself... actually still do. (I just can't believe I haven't made myself an Ivory toneboard/bead yet... but I will!)
Ya'll just get overflow. LOL oh I made the lanyard too...It's leather lace, with an antler/ebony keeper.
Just had to show a pic with my Cooper 17 rem.
I'm much better looking in person.
On top it's a mini type howler I made years ago, the barrel is "Micarta"...a pair of my wifes blue jeans rolled up in fiberglass resin... I like to think she gets a little tickle when I howl with this.
Just had to show a pic with my Cooper 17 rem.
I'm much better looking in person.
hillbilly1
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I usually run two 6-drop lanyards, but not at the same time. One lanyard stays in the truck or in my pack while the other is around my neck. I'll usually switch them out every other stand, once a day, or something like that. One lanyard is full of my own calls that like tjones said, they are not worthy of pictures. Screwed-up finishes, cracks, crooked laminate lines, etc. Hanging on the other one are calls from TT, Carver, BMeyer, and a couple other guys that don't hang out here anymore. I'm a firm believer that custom calls were made to be used, not sit on the shelf! If I buy a call from you, it's not going sit on the shelf, no matter how pretty it is. Taxidermists make things that you look at. Call maker's make calls that are to be used!
badtothebone
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At the moment, my hot call is an antler tip call that Catwhacker gave me at the Expo this year. Screamin' lil' sucker. Called in two with it near Quaker City a few weeks ago, but only saw them going away. The weeds are so tall around here that it's easy for them to come in close unseen and bust you. Most of my stands lately have been to locate them for later in the season.
Aside from that, my eye candy calls are all in a curio cabinet and my workin' calls are butt ugly and worn hard. Not real photo material. LOL!
Rudy
Aside from that, my eye candy calls are all in a curio cabinet and my workin' calls are butt ugly and worn hard. Not real photo material. LOL!
Rudy
canislatrans54
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I dug out my lanyard from where it's been residing since I last was able to get out to hunt.
These were the calls I was using at the end of that season.
From Left to Right...
...The lanyard, a TT Stealth custom made, larger, to fit a fat man.
#1) An ArkyYoter "Screamin' Demon" made from Osage.
#2) A Predat'r Calls {Cdog911/Lance Homman} New Model PS33, voiced Jack, in Laminated grey Gunstock.
#3) A TT "Cyanide Extreme"
#4) My favorite, go-to call...that is always on my lanyard...the 2nd call I ever made (1st distress).
It's a cow horn tip featuring a molded TT toneboard, and a .010" mil clear reed based on TT's "Feline Frenzy" (but slightly tweaked--higher & raspier than the original).
Fit & finish aren't perfect, but both the coyotes & I LOVE the sounds it can produce!
Thanks again, Tony, for the opportunity!!
#5) A Fawn Distress, in Osage & Cocobolo, from Weasel Calls
#6) One of my own NCK cow horn howlers, with an "old-style" Carver howler toneboard, and a .010" mil reed of my own design.
#7) The original NCK "Pup Frenzy", Version 1, pup howler.
Cow horn fitted w/same TT 'board as the aforementioned distress call.
With a homemade .010" mil clear reed.
The "Pup Frenzy" howlers {currently offered in Version 2, which use RR1 'boards}, are just the ticket for howling from Sept.-Dec., all ages & genders seem to respond well to the higher pitched howls. And it does ear-piercing ki-yis!
#8) An Osage "Sparkler", from Stone Coyote Calls, voiced in baby cottontail.
#9) A "Bird Special", in Mulberry & Blackwood, from Catwhacker/Jim Spray Calls.
This call is deadly! (And unlike most "birdy" calls, Jim uses an actual JC reed instead of a coaxer-style reed.) Thanks Jim!
#10) A "baby fawn" voiced call from Osage, in what I refer to as a "Chess Piece" style, from SummitHowler76/Nate Hayes.
#11) An ArkyYoter Osage & Redheart, voiced in Jack.
These were the calls I was using at the end of that season.
From Left to Right...
...The lanyard, a TT Stealth custom made, larger, to fit a fat man.
#1) An ArkyYoter "Screamin' Demon" made from Osage.
#2) A Predat'r Calls {Cdog911/Lance Homman} New Model PS33, voiced Jack, in Laminated grey Gunstock.
#3) A TT "Cyanide Extreme"
#4) My favorite, go-to call...that is always on my lanyard...the 2nd call I ever made (1st distress).
It's a cow horn tip featuring a molded TT toneboard, and a .010" mil clear reed based on TT's "Feline Frenzy" (but slightly tweaked--higher & raspier than the original).
Fit & finish aren't perfect, but both the coyotes & I LOVE the sounds it can produce!
Thanks again, Tony, for the opportunity!!
#5) A Fawn Distress, in Osage & Cocobolo, from Weasel Calls
#6) One of my own NCK cow horn howlers, with an "old-style" Carver howler toneboard, and a .010" mil reed of my own design.
#7) The original NCK "Pup Frenzy", Version 1, pup howler.
Cow horn fitted w/same TT 'board as the aforementioned distress call.
With a homemade .010" mil clear reed.
The "Pup Frenzy" howlers {currently offered in Version 2, which use RR1 'boards}, are just the ticket for howling from Sept.-Dec., all ages & genders seem to respond well to the higher pitched howls. And it does ear-piercing ki-yis!
#8) An Osage "Sparkler", from Stone Coyote Calls, voiced in baby cottontail.
#9) A "Bird Special", in Mulberry & Blackwood, from Catwhacker/Jim Spray Calls.
This call is deadly! (And unlike most "birdy" calls, Jim uses an actual JC reed instead of a coaxer-style reed.) Thanks Jim!
#10) A "baby fawn" voiced call from Osage, in what I refer to as a "Chess Piece" style, from SummitHowler76/Nate Hayes.
#11) An ArkyYoter Osage & Redheart, voiced in Jack.