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Hi, I’m Dan Wittenberg, a turkey box call maker in Spokane,
WA. For a few years now I have been making long box turkey calls for
my friends and for myself.
What started as an effort to duplicate a great-sounding long
box call has grown into a line of effective box calls.
Some of my donated calls have sold at NWTF banquet auctions
for as much as $300. I have had several requests from people wanting
to purchase a call. So, with this web site I am now offering
my limited production for sale. Each call is hand-crafted one
at a time by me and represents over ten hours of labor for each
call that turns out good enough for me to take hunting.
These calls are not just pretty.
They call turkeys. They
locate them AND they bring them in.
The late great Neil Cost, probably the most noted
custom box call maker ever, is the originator of this long box
design. He also referred
to them as paddle box or boat paddle calls.
Each call I make is a tribute to his legacy. My humble attempts to emulate his style and sound eventually produced
a call that looks good and sounds good to the turkeys. I have become a firm believer in the uncanny
ability of these longer boxes to reliably reproduce true turkey
sounds.
Versatility is the strong suit
of this call, the longer sound-board giving the caller a wide
range of turkey sounds. You can make the sweet clear yelp of a young
hen or sound like a raspy older hen indicating multiple opportunities
for the lovesick tom. You
can make very soft hen-talk or crank up the volume and get gobbles
from phenomenal distances. It makes realistic yelps, clucks, cuts, purrs,
and jake gobbles. Some
can kee-kee. I have
noticed that I can get better turkey sounds from these paddle
boxes than I can from diaphragms, slates, and shorter boxes.
I get into many more conversations with hens now that
I use a long box and I sometimes get gobbles when no other call
will. The beauty of
this call, though, is its ability to bring in the wary tom all
the way to the gun.
When I started making calls, I made them in Neil Cost's
style with comments and signature on the lid.
I have since made cosmetic and ergonomic design changes
including a more flowing and rounded look, an exterior clear
finish, and painted artwork on the lid handle depicting the
tail plumage of a Merriam’s wild turkey. Both styles are available.
See the Products page for pictures.
Each call comes with a custom-made leather-look padded
vinyl carrying case with a chalk pocket, chalk, and instructions.
It will be inscribed, signed, and dated by me.
I would be pleased to personalize the call to the buyer.
All of these calls have lids of Eastern red cedar that
has been carefully selected for grain orientation and attractiveness. My
calls are carved from a solid piece of select wood. No glue
is used. Woods available for the one-piece hollowed out
body of the call include:
Butternut
Sitka Spruce
Honduran Mahogany
Yellow Poplar
Eastern red cedar
Price:
$100 Plus $5 shipping & handling for one
or more calls in the continental U.S. I accept and prefer PayPal but will accept
personal checks, cashier's checks, and money orders. Sorry,
I'm not set up for credit cards.
For PayPal orders, use this email
address (without the spaces): g d w @ c e t . c o m
Please call or email me to order.
Dan
Wittenberg, 924 W. 17th Ave., Spokane WA 99203 ----------------
(509) 838-7985
Your guarantee is that you will
be happy with this call or return it for a full refund within
thrity days of the purchase date.
These calls are made to last for generations and to maintain
their sound season after season.
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