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March's
New Products
By
Ron Tussel
Morgan
Frictionwood Turkey Caller
Anyone
bitten by the addiction of hunting wild turkey in the spring knows
that you can never have too many turkey calls.
 It's
not just a matter of finding one call that sounds
"better" than another; every call sounds different.
Every wild turkey sounds different, too. There is a certain quest
among true-to-the-word turkey hunters to always seek that special
turkey call that someday might be pulled out of our vests to do
the trick when nothing else will work.
For me, a
big part of that quest is acquiring and using handmade wooden
calls of all kinds. I recently had the chance to acquire and use a
very different, simply-made but sweet-sounding wooden call. Fellow
turkey hunter, Kenny Morgan, makes the Frictionwood Turkey Caller
in Louisiana. The call is handcrafted from a single block of wood
and comes with a corncob striker.
Simple to
use? You bet. And it is ideal for the beginner or expert alike. I
literally had my 3-year-old making awesome yelps with the Morgan
caller in minutes. The call operates like a peg and slate but is
all wood with a slit in one side of the block.
With the
chalk supplied in the corn cob striker, you chalk the backside of
the call. Both the slotted and solid sides may be used for
calling, with different sounds coming from each. Then you simply
hold the striker like a pen and stroke it across the chalked
surface. I was amazed at how good this little call sounded for as
simple as it is. Perfect yelps, clucks and purrs were a cinch. I
found it easy to run the call very softly and could make it really
ring out to elicit a shock gobble from a big, old tom.
I
am pleased to add this one to my vest and hope to pull it out to
lure in a wise old gobbler this spring. For a color catalog this
Frictionwood caller and other turkey hunting calls and products,
contact Morgan's Turkey Callers, LLC, PO Box 1880, Dept. OT,
Jackson, LA 70748. |
