Posted April 18, 2016 8:29 pm by Comments

By Justin Stakes

A collection of custom turkey pot calls with turkey trumpet calls in the background.

by Glen Wunderlich

A collection of custom turkey pot calls with turkey trumpet calls in the background.
Glen Wunderlich
Glen Wunderlich

USA -(AmmoLand.com)- The demand for turkey calls has exploded commensurately with the population of turkeys and that of turkey hunters.

New calls are mass produced routinely in China and marketed as the latest and greatest “must haves” to hunters that desperately seek to become today’s Pied Pipers of Turkeyville, USA.

Will they get the job done? Sure. But, for the more discriminating among us, custom American-made calls enter the realm of collectible heirlooms much like a finely crafted firearm is handed down through generations.

Rodney Hairell of Texas loves working with wood and has turned his passion into a homegrown business: Big D Custom Calls. He produces one-of-a-kind predator, deer, duck, crow, owl, and my favorite, turkey calls. All of his calls come with a certifiable WOW factor and are available in an astounding variety of some 200 species of wood from around the globe.

What sets these calls apart from those in the local Cheap Mart begins with the wood itself. Much of it is in burl configuration that can be problematic, because it may be unstable in its raw …Read the Rest

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