I’ve had a Quaker Boy for over 20 years that worked here and there. Over the past couple of seasons, I have taken to making my own scratch pots from slate, glass, slate-over-glass, and aluminum. The parts can be got from Shipley’s

In fact, I called in a nice one last year with the slate over glass. However, I was still learning, I had used the wrong glue, and the glass detached as I made a loud cutt. It was enough to bring in the gobbler, though.

This year I’ve been invited to join the Pro-Staff of Heirloom Turkey Calls of Haughton Louisiana. Last month I received the double barrel call with slate on one side and glass on they other. I had it out this weekend, testing it with my son, Angus. It was the Kentucky Youth Weekend. The turkeys were generally being uncooperative due to a lot of cold and rain over the previous week.

By about 45 minutes after sunrise, however, we did get one gobbler and some hens interested and the came to our side of the pasture to feed. The gobbler was seriously henned up. He stayed for the most part to the back corner of the field strutting for a half-dozen hens. They were headed my way, but I could see where this was going: the hens would arrive first, the gobbler would be lagging behind. We would get busted by the hens long before the gobbler got into range of Angus’ 20 Gauge.

I took the Heirloom Double Barrel Call. It’s patent-pending sounding board design gives it the ability for some really good loud cutts. From the slate side, I hit him with some serious cutting and yelping and it did the trick. The gobbler turned away from the corner and started doing and end-around the hens and came for our blind. So yes, I do now have proof that Heirloom’s Double Barrel Pot Call will turn a henned- up gobbler.

It would have worked, too. Honest!. Angus had his gun up. Sadly, a few minutes later, the lead hen decided she would rather go back to the woods. She turned around and walked back to the cedar thicket with the rest of the flock following. The gobbler went too.

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