"A TURKEY HUNTER'S SUPERCALL?"

There is no easier call to master, it takes only one finger to operate, it can be mounted on a gun, some are capable of tone adjustment, it makes various sounds of the wild turkey and can fit in your shirt pocket. Is it a bird? Plane? Superman? No, no, and no! Child's toy? Simple enough to be but definitely not. Supercall? It just might be! It's the pushbutton turkey call. A very valuable piece of equipment that I never leave home without.

Because it is so easy to use, some turkey hunters make the mistake of thinking their calling skills are above such simplicity. However, savvy veterans of the turkey woods have long known of it's advantages. This is a call that a child can pick up, push the button at various speeds, and produce error free yelps, clucks, and purrs. By pushing the button fast, you produce a yelp, by pressing it slow, the call produces clucks, and by moving the button medium speed, it produces very realistic purrs. It's that simple to operate, and as close to fool proof as a call can get. Although I'm a professional caller, and can duplicate any sound a turkey can make using a mouth diaphragm call, I can't make the clucks and purrs as realistic and error free like I can on a pushbutton call. In the heat of battle in the turkey woods, your muscles tighten up, you breath harder, you shake, mistakes are going to happen when you call. Using a pushbutton call all but eliminates mistakes.

I also like the fact that this call only requires one of my hands and very little movement to operate which is important because a turkey's eye sight is 1OX better than ours and is based on movement. Using a pushbutton call and a mouth diaphragm call simultaneously creates the sound of two hens at one time with only the movement of one finger. This is a very deadly calling technique. I mean what love sick gobbler wouldn't want to strut around with a chick under each wing?

There are many styles of pushbutton calls on the market. Some are operated by springs and rubber bands, while others are operated by wire pins. Some are capable of tone adjustment and can be mounted right on your gun barrel. Some are made of plastic, and some of wood. So which one is right for you? You be the judge. Personally, being a call manufacturer amongst other things, I believe you get what you pay for. My company (A-Way Hunting Products) has produced many different types and styles of pushbutton calls for years. We've experimented with making calls of plastic, wood, slate bottom, spring, rubber band and pin. Although you may save a couple bucks by buying a plastic call , wood calls are hands down the better sounding calls. We also used to make pushbutton calls that were operated by springs and rubber bands , but here too we ran into inferior sounding calls that were only capable of producing single tone levels . These calls didn't have enough of the downward pressure on the lid required to make the more realistic sounding notes. It wasn't until we developed a wire pin system did we not only solve the problem of making the most realistic notes, but also made our calls multitone capable. Moving the wire pin higher up on the wall of the call, allows you to make the higher pitched sound of the young Jenny hen. By moving the pin lower, you get the raspy sounds of the old boss hen, and other tones in between. Being able to produce various voices is important because there are times when you go into the turkey woods after other hunters have been there calling to the same birds you are about to call to. What are you going to do that they didn't already try? Change tone! Most hunters knowingly or not use predominately raspy sounding tones. After a while I believe the gobbler gets tone deaf to these raspy sounds and just ignores them. Being able to recognize this and having the capability of changing the tone in the field to a high pitched young hen (which the gobbler probably has not heard) will greatly improve your chances of calling in that bird.

Pushbutton calls also have different features. For example some, like our Sound Supreme made of red cedar have recessed bottoms, and acoustic sound grooves on their sides. The recessed bottom on any pushbutton call will greatly improve it's sound quality. A recessed bottom keeps your hand off the bottom of the call so it won't absorb the acoustic vibrations. Grooves in the sides of calls which look attractive are actually made for better sound. Bet you didn't know that one! I also mentioned that some pushbuttons clip on the barrel of a gun. Ours has a clip at each end that fits onto any size barrel and has about a 6 inch string that runs to the hunter's finger allowing him/her to use the call while holding up the gun, it's called the Gunner's Barrel Buddy. Lohman game calls out of Neosho, Mo. 'has a similar gun mounted call except it uses a velcro system to attach to the gun. A new call that we just developed and worked hard on has me very excited, it's called the Turkey Trooper 2000. It has three features never seen on a pushbutton call before. It not only has the regular button you push to make your calls, but also a small clucker button which gives you perfect soft talking clucks and purrs for in close calling. It also comes with it's own latex rubber rain coat to keep it working perfect in all weather conditions. The best feature on the call however is it's control knob that allows the user to adjust the volume and the tone simply by turning the knob. This call is also made of walnut which makes it a very durable call that will last for years.

There are many different types of turkey calls on the market besides the pushbutton, and they all have their time and ?lace. However, the simple to use pushbutton supercall has definitely made it's mark and is here to stay as a valuable part of the turkey hunter's arsenal.

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