Traditional Muzzleloading Association
Craftsmanship => Accoutrements => Topic started by: W. Welshman on August 31, 2012, 11:16:08 AM
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Hello folks, With hunting season coming up I'm looking for turkey wing bones and legs to make wing bone yelpers. So if you bag a wild one and have no use for the bones let me know. Thanks
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with the holidays coming up , you can get a package of turkey wings at most stores . they make good calls . i also save the wings bones from my holiday turkey.
the only difference is that the domestic wing bones are thinner then the wild turkey wings bones .
if the bird has been cooked and the bones are brown , simply soak them over knight in peroxide they will whiten right back up
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Thanks Capt, I have put the word out to everyone to save their Holiday bird wings also. The wild one are a little harder and you get a lower tone. Thanks again Captchee
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The wild one are a little harder and you get a lower tone
i had heard this as well . not sure i 100% agree though .
What I would agree with is that the thickness of the call dictates how the vibration travels and thus does produce a little different tone .
A few years ago I made a lot of wing bone calls for local folks . Some out of wild turkey wings others from domestic turkey wings .
What I found was that the length of the bone used for the mouth piece dictated the tone of the call . IE a long bone achieved a deeper call while a short bone made a high pitch call .
I made one I called a blaster !!.
I actually did that by accident as the long bone had been broke , so when I finished , the call was only about 3 inchs long .
It was loud and high pitched beyond belief .. I used to keep it hanging in my shop . Then one day I got this idea .
All we are really doing is making a musical interment like a trombone or trumpet, both of which produce tones by the very same application . IE the vibration from the lips of the musician. The pitch of each individual note is then changed by lengthening or shortening the distance that the sound travels through the tubing . That sound is then magnified by the bell of the interment.
Then I got to thinking . OK , if this was indeed the case , then like musical instruments, each will have its own distinct quality of sound that unique to itself . Very much like each individual bird had a distinct tune to its call / voice
So I started carrying two different pitched calls while hunting , alternating my calling between the calls . That worked very well . So well in fact that when my hunting partner and I go out , we care 2 calls each . So we end up sounding like for different hens cutting to each other .
I can tell you that if the toms are hot , the result is un believable .
Sadly I broke the little Blaster one fall . it was made from a domestic turkey wing and thus not as strong as a wild wing call . I had it hanging from the rear view mirror in my scout and while going over a rough section of road the call bounced of the windshield and broke . I have never gotten around to making another
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if the bird has been cooked and the bones are brown , simply soak them over knight in peroxide they will whiten right back up
Ha - I soak them in either tea or coffee to get them to drab up!
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Thanks again Charles for the help. I will be playing around with length for different tone. I did a trade with a call maker back in S.C. and should get it this week. I made box call years ago had lots a fun with it. This will be something other then weaving to do. Thanks again Lynn
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now I'm hungry...LOL
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Iffen ya do git some wangs fer WW - I will buy or trade for the wing feathers!!!
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Yes Sir, I had 4 wings last year my friend never hear back. But I will yell louder this year
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I guess my runnin around several states working made me forget that.
I hope to slow down a bit and get back to bows and arrows at home. But the big bucks of contract consulting work is hard to pass up !
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You got to make the big bucks, I'll let James know