Re: turkey call
mrdoog - That's right all slate calls, class, aluminum and slate need to be conditioned first.
In your case, you have to codition the class surface with the emory paper. There should be two pices that came with the call, one fine and one a bit rougher. Use the rough first and then the fine.
Important:
Move the emory paper only in one direction in a streight line, not in circles or diagonal. Condition the class surface until it turns white. Then use the finer paper and repeat the same procedure in the same direction. Never touch the surface of the class or the striking part of the striker rod with your bare hands or finger. The oil on your hands and fingers will render the strike surface useless. After each calling session clean the class surface by blowing on it. Before each calling session codition the call lightly with the emory paper. And the sticker as needed.
To produce sound:
Hold the stricker like you would a pencil and tilt it slightly away from you. With the other hand hold the call lightly in you cuped hand, making sure your thumb, forefinger and middle finger do not touch the class surface. Strike the striker lightly against the conditioned grain and this will produce the sound. The emphasis here is on "lightly". If you apply to much pressure you will get no sound and the surfase of the call will go flat again.
Yelp:
Move the striker in a 1/4 " circle over the glass surface. Solw movement will produce a soft yelp. Faster movement a cackle. As you move the stricker make sure it never leaves the glass surface.
Cluck:
A short (1/4") streight strike with the striker toward your body. Apply a little more pressure and at the end flick the the striker of off the surface. A little bit like you would flick off a pice of dirt with the striker.
Purr:
Gently push the striker toward your body in a streight line without appleing any pressure on the stricker. Push the stricker about half way across the class surface.
These are the basic calls you need and are easy to learn. Very often this three calls will bring in a tom very fast.
Hope this info is of help to you, please feel free to contact me if you need more detailed info and advice.
Last edited by huntwriter; 03-20-2006 at 07:51 PM.
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