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It was a pretty quiet morning in the turkey woods and, after hours of hearing nothing I decided to take a break and just enjoy the spring woods. Sitting on a hillside with my back to a large red oak I reached into my pack to see if one of the half dozen or so calls I normally carry might elicit an answer from one of the mature toms I was sure still roamed the woods I hunted.
I spread the calls on the leaves beside me and soon realized how many ways there were at my disposal to mimic the call of a wild turkey. My go-to call is a Lohman Model 870 double-sided box that I’ve used for years. It makes all the sounds of a hen turkey and is sturdy enough to stand up to the abuse I sometimes expose it to. Another box call that has a special place in my heart is the Lynch Fool Proof Model 101that I’ve had since the mid-1960s. I used it to kill my first mature tom back in 1968 when Pennsylvania opened its first six-day spring turkey season.