Little Creek Calls

See if he can put you on a spring turkey while you are there. The season runs the month of march, you have until the end of the week. Cant wait to read your report on your deer hunt.

Got my first Oceola Turkey this morning in Florida. 10" beard 1 1/8" Spurs 21 pounds.

My calling seminar is scheduled for thursday April 12th at Sportsman's Warehouse in Mesa. As far as a first pot call goes I would probably recommend starting with a slate call. Easiest to use and learn on.

Here is the call I am just finishing up. It has taken me over 8 years to fully complete. It is third call I ever made and my earliest call that I have sold. I am glad to finally be finishing this call. it's a special to me and a one of a kind. It will come with both strikers.

For this banquet I decided to finish up and donate a piece of my call making history. When I first got started making calls I decided to start with slate pot calls. The first didn't really work out all that well. The second turned out to be a good working call that I still use on occasion. Both calls I still own and don't plan on selling. The third was a different type of wood and took a couple trys to get a cut out and roughly turned call on the lathe. I stopped before I messed it up to bad with the idea of coming back to finish when I was a little more experienced. I never planned on selling it but finishing it for myself. When sitting down to start a call for this my home chapter banquet I saw the unfinished call on my shelf and thought I would give someone a chance to purchase a peice of my call making history. It will be my earliest call that I have sold and the only call from this type of wood. I will post more details and pictures as I get it finished up this week. Hope to see some of you at the banquet.

We had a great time. I am glad we were able to make it.

Here are a couple pictures of of the calls I am donating for the banquet tomorrow night. They are a copper calling surface in a Pecan pot and a crystal calling surface in a Carob pot. I am excited to be attending tomorrow night. It will be my first time at the northern Arizona chapter banquet. Hope to meet some new Coues Whitetail members there.

Just finished up a couple calls for the national call making contest. First one is copper calling surface in a Carob wood pot. The second is aluminum calling surface in a Pecan wood pot.

I will be there with my wife and two boys. Should be a fun night.

Does anyone else have found memories of a call similar to this but with white tape instead of brown? I just received some new latex in the mail today and blue being one of the new colors I had to put one together.

It was sold by Marvin Robbins at timberline calls and was my go to for years before he died. Lots of great memories of both turkey hunting and my friendship with Marvin .

Not this year, I am going to hunt Oceollas in Florida instead.

This is crazy because it is my wife's birthday too. I asked her last night and she said winning some great prizes would be a great way to celebrate her birthday. Save me a couple seats Mark and count on another call donation for your banquet.

If you shoot a 2 year old Merriam's tom he will weigh right about 19 lbs. 3 years and older they will be 20 plus with my largest being 24 lbs. If you are looking for the heaviest birds a Eastern bird from the midwest will out weigh goulds and merriams every time. They don't travel everyday like our birds out west. They are basically field birds that fly down in the morning and eat corn all day, they don't need to walk for miles in search of food and are fat lazy birds. When they say Goulds are the largest they are talking about height and skeletal structure and not weight.

My guess would be the one on the right, more white tipped tail feathers. Great looking mounts.

I was curious how this was going to work because in the regulations it said applications accepted online (if available) or by mail. On the new leftover list it says applications accepted by mail only. I guess that means online will not be available.

You were lucky to draw with 2, most turkey hunters that drew a tag and hunted last year had one more point than you at 3. One for hunter safety one loyalty point and one they bought from the fall draw. Turkey points build fast with two draws a year. I have 16 points and have been waiting for a Gould's tag. Good luck on your hunt. I will be going out of state and might pick up a leftover depending on whats available.

Its refreshing to see all the players stand for the national anthem and even see some come back out of the dugout onto the field for "God bless America" during the seventh inning stretch.

SOLD.

Tickets have been sold

SOLD

No they taste like corn fed beef.

Took my boys out over the weekend on our way home from fishing to pick some prickly pear to make some jelly and lemonade. Had a great time and love the taste. If any one wants to go pick them there are quite a few ripe and ready. My son came up with the idea to sell jars of the jam to help pay for his tickets into Disneyland on an upcoming vacation. We have three flavors, peach prickly pear (peaches are fresh picked from my parents tree in Snowflake), prickly pear pineapple, and prickly pear. If anyone is interested in buying some jam from my boys let me know.

I read Amanda's post (the one in the link above) a few years ago and use her method with the juicer. Its easy with not to much prep. Only real pain is filtering the juice that comes out of the juicer and even that is not that bad.

When I upgraded my muzzleloader scope a few years ago I narrowed my choices down to the Nikon inline and the Leupold ultimate slam. Both had muzzleloader specific reticle with lines or dots for diferent yardages. In looking through them side by side at Sportsman’s and Bass Pro the Leupold was noticeably clearer and better glass so I went with it.