Going through some of my old Handcalls

So I went out in the shed today to dig out some old hand calls for display and some trips down memory lane . I found some cool old calls I had one being one I made by myself in high school in wood shop on the lathe . Called in a couple with that one and I found my old Talky Ho calls one is a limited run of the Snow White edition and it’s number 2 in the series of only a 100 calls made . Pretty cool and thought I should share .
 

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That's awesome! I don't have a ton of predator hand calls, but I recently dug up a bunch of old calls myself. No name grunt tubes from the 80's and an assortment of Haydel;s duck calls from my early days of waterfowling. Like most, my first calls were utilitarian, store bought, mass produced calls. As time moved on, I started buying higher end, machined or hand crafted customs. I don't think the customs added much to my success, but I think they definitely added to my confidence in the field!

To go back in time, I don't think I would do anything differently. I never regretted buying up. If push came to shove though, Haydel, Knight and Hale, Olt or Quaker Boy calls have put as much in the game bag as any of the high dollar customs that I ever purchased. I always felt like could get more out of the customs though. More ability to cover a broader range of sounds cleanly.
 
So I went out in the shed today to dig out some old hand calls for display and some trips down memory lane . I found some cool old calls I had one being one I made by myself in high school in wood shop on the lathe . Called in a couple with that one and I found my old Talky Ho calls one is a limited run of the Snow White edition and it’s number 2 in the series of only a 100 calls made . Pretty cool and thought I should share .
I also have most of those. Lots of good memories.
 
Back in the 60’s, I got the predator combo from Burnham Brothers, which was a short range call, a long range call and a record, for $5. I’ve told people that and they ask, “what’s a record?” Still got em, and called in a fox, on my first stand.
 
I totally agree that using hand calls to call Coyotes, ups the level of enjoyment when calling. For years I enjoyed collecting and using hand calls. There’s something cool about using calls from the 60’s and they still bring them in hard and fast.😉

Here’s a few of the ones I’ve used over the years.
Starting top left:
1)Three blue calls-Harold Thompson calls (1960’s)
2)Carver swift call
3)Rick Pallett-Tweety
4)Critr’ calls-Song dog jr.,Standard, Peewee
5)Not sure on the bottom far left wooden open reed call,won that in a raffle at the World Coyote contest in Nevada.
6)Next to that are 6 Sceery calls.below that is a vintage wooden VG2 Sceery call.
7)Above that are 2 Tally ho’s
8)Zepps open reed.
9)In the middle are Weems wild calls (1960’s)
10)Then wooden Circe call of the wild calls (1960’s)
11)Plastic Circe (1970’s)
12) Two Dan Thompson weems wild calls replicas

On the right side are howlers Top to Bottom
1)Sceery howler
2)Zepps kill pole
3)Zepps open reed call
4)Sceery howler newer model
5)Jerry Hunsley’s Wiley one howler
6)Dan Thompson Red Desert howler
7)Dan Thompson Windriver howler
8)Critr’ call Magnum howler
9)Bill Austin Male howler
10)Bill Austin Short range howler
11)Rich Higgins custom howler
 

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Thanks, the Circe calls are a mix of cottontail and Jack rabbit. All the same length though. My favorite as far as best closed reed sound goes is the smallest of the Harold Thompson call (the blue calls.) it has a jack rabbit reed. Legendary caller Sam Dudley from Arizona used Thompson calls back in the 1960’s….
 
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The Thompson call was the first call I bought back in the 60's. In fact, I saw an old Thompson call on KSL classieds about a year ago for $8. Almost bought it for nostalgic reasons.
 
Nice collection, I should do that some day. 78 rpm record, the first CD (compact disc) much smaller than an orchestra. WhoWee, 45 rpms on a battery phonograph, talk about keggers in the woods. You could even call preds with it.
 
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