If I try to purr on a diaphragm I can make a sound, but it won’t be a turkey call. On the other hand, with my slate call I can purr, yelp, cutt, cluck, tree cackle, and even kee-kee run without much ...

Like all my turkey hunting gear, my accumulation of turkey calls started a long time ago. I killed my first gobbler, an Ohio bird, back in 1990. My wife, Julie, killed her first, a Washington state ...

We still call them slate calls, though the surface of many of these turkey calls nowadays are glass, aluminum or some other material. This spring, thousands of gobblers in Nebraska will give testament ...

NEW COLUMBIA – To say that there are a plethora of turkey calls out there these days would actually be an understatement. While most of them are functional, they’re not all the same – and it means ...

Seated at the base of a red oak overlooking a wooded hollow below, I held a piece of art in my hands. It was the first day of the 2007 fall turkey season and I left my trusted slate call – the one ...