Originally Posted By: canislatrans54When you have nearly 150 calls...and you also make your own...it's kinda difficult to come up with a set of true favorites.
However, below are just a very few of the ones I have used with success...as well as just plain liking them.
Pictured from left to right:
Back row:
...6MM Custom Calls (Clipper Strickland) -- "Lamb/Goat Distress", made from Osage, signature in the band.
...R.B. Boyd -- "Chicken Distress" (close-range), made from Bocote & Redheart, signed & dated.
...R.R. Calls (bearmanric aka Rick Robbins) -- "Honey Pot" variable-pitch open reed, made from English Walnut
...This call is either a Kerry Carver, or a Stone Coyote (badtothebone aka Rudy Calderone), I can't remember which. -- It is voiced "Baby CT", and is made from Osage.
...Stone Coyote -- "The Sparkler" (his name for it), voiced "Adult CT", made from Osage.
...ArkyYoter Game Calls (Joe Bradshaw) -- "Cotton Candy" cottontail distress, made from Louisiana Osage, signed & dated.
...Orion Calls (Doug Yancey) -- Open reed distress/howler, made from Osage.
Front row:
...Verminator "Twisted Syco"
...Verminator "Alienator"
...An ugly, but a goody...The first distress call I ever made. Variable-pitch using a TT molded toneboard, one of my hand-cut reeds, and a cowhorn tip body.
Between Oct. '07 & the present, this little call has accounted for over 150 coyotes called in (about 60% of what I've called in since '07).
...One of my own cowhorn howlers....although NOT this particular one (the one pictured "The Phantom", is just the one I grabbed for the picture).
...Another of my horn howlers -- The "Micro" howler actually IS one of those which I've had success with.
...One of my "Frenzy Pup" howlers --This one is one of the few that has been made from an antler (Elk tine), instead of a cowhorn.
Since '07, I have NEVER went to a stand w/o a Pup howler.
The horn, though once a living part of an animal is dead; nevertheless it has, thru the artistry of its maker, been imbued with a life force of its own...