Little Creek Calls

Here are a few pictures of the call I am entering into the national call making contest this year. Just finished making it last week and feel it turned out great. It's a slate call in a Arizona Walnut pot with a Mesquite striker.

Looks like you might be getting some snow. If you do one of my favorite ways to hunt unit 1 in the late season is after a good fresh snow (6”+) get out in one of the no motorized entry areas and find fresh tracks and follow them. It usually doesn’t take long before you catch up to them if they haven’t been spooked. When you catch up if its still morning and they haven’t bedded yet it will be close, under 100 yards and they usually don’t know you are there. Just be sure to have a GPS and know how far from a road and how long of a pack out you are getting yourself into. Even if you spook them you can usually catch up after a mile or so.

How much for just the speed ball?

Call the phone number, 602-942-3000.

That's great Mark! Where did Kathi put in?

I have had several electric smokers, an offset charcoal smoker and have been using a Yoder pellet smoker for the past 5 years. I have liked them all but would never go back from using a pellet smoker now. There are different things you can do to get almost the same flavor out of a pellet smoker as you can out of charcoal or electric. First is using a smoke tube that burns pellets and goes on the grill with the food. You get more than double the smoke output than your normal pellet smoke. You can also use it and get smoke at any temp using the tube, super hot bake or almost no heat in a cold smoke because it is not burning in the fire box. Another option is mixing in charcoal pellets with your hard wood pellets. My ultimate smoker would be the Yoder YS1500. It's to bad there is no longer a Yoder dealer in AZ and shipping is to expensive (around $550 to ship the YS1500, they are really heavy and come assembled on a pallet).

What is his recipe for the BBQ sauce? It looks and sounds great. We juiced some a few weeks ago and I still have some frozen juice in the freezer.

Sean I will take them.

I have a couple family members with hunts starting Friday. Both already have antelope mounts on the wall. How much are you wanting to spend on a cape and I will see if they are interested in selling? FYI Your PM inbox must be full it wouldn't let me send to you.

Pinedale WY

Seems like I remember hearing that years ago there were reintroduced Merriam's turkey in 29 and 31 but cant remember where I heard it.

In my opinion it is a female cutthroat. Your other picture is of a male cutthroat and that is the reason it is more colorful and has a bigger mouth.

We used Lacorti's in Fredonia a few years back for meat processing and were really happy with his work. My Dad will use him again for his 13A antelope this year.

The White Mountain Apache Tribe are also doing closures. Basically any lake off the paved road very far are closed. http://wmatoutdoors.org/wp_view.html?pageid=13

Brown and brook Trout spawn in the fall and rainbows, cutthroat and Apache trout spawn in the spring.

Turkey usually have 18 tail feathers unless they have broken or lost one. If they loose or break one they will grow another one back. Each feather is a little different depending on where it is located in the fan. All of the feathers I have are numbered so I can put the fan back together in the correct order. I have several Rio fans that I killed but haven't put back together. Post or send me a picture of the missing feathers so I know what feathers you need.

I have lots of Rio tail feathers. I cant help out with the neck feathers, no reason to pull them and bring them home.

I was there and had a great time. Saw and talked to lots of friends. Met and made several new friends. Its always fun to watch the videos from the projects and camps that the money spent helps fund. Thanks to all the volunteers who made it possible.

I will be doing a turkey hunting and turkey calling seminar again this spring. There will be general turkey hunting tips and strategies. There will also be breakout trainings with hands on call use training. This year I will be a doing a box call training. There will also be a pot call training (slate, aluminum, copper, glass and crystal). All calls for the training will be supplied by me. Calls will be available for purchase after the training. There will also be a question and answer time so if you have any questions or are looking for help in a particular unit there will be several experienced turkey hunters willing to help. This seminar will be free of charge with no registration required, just show up the day of the seminar. I look forward to teaching these seminars each year and helping others improve their turkey hunting and calling skills. I hope to meet some of you there. Thursday April 12th 2017, 6:00PM – 8PM at the Mesa, Arizona Sportsman’s Warehouse

Or pinery canyon or rucker lake or both turkey creeks east and west sides or pretty much anywhere and you can find birds in 29. Good luck to both you and your daughter.

I am looking forward to seeing some of you tonight. Should be fun.

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.