Ever start something simple and get carried away? First official Wingbone Build
So, I have the wingbones from the turkeys I killed last year, and I decided it was time to get to work making some calls. Watched some youtube, and it seems simple enough. I decided that I'd make three and give the biggest and "best" one to my buddy Will; I gave him a push-pull spring box last year, and he was able to call his first turkeys in close enough to get him hooked but not close enough to kill before they wigged out. We've been looking forward to doing some serious turkey chasing this spring, so I figured I'd add another call to his arsenal. I put it together, scratched my maker's mark, year, and his initials in it, and noticed that the bell bone looked a lot like a turkey's head and snood. Well, one thing led to another, and two days and about 10 hours later, I'm done with it. My wife wants me to keep it and hand it down to the boys, but I already scratched his initials in it. The cool thing is, though, ol' Will will be returning the stuff I've made him to the boys one day down the line, and it will mean an ton more to them then...and he's going to dig the fugg out of it when he gets it. I hope I can use one of these wingbone trumpets to kill a bird this year. I've got a lot of practicing to do, because I cant make it sound anything like a turkey with any consistency yet. Anyhoo...here is what started out to be a 30 minute project. The two arrowheads are two points I was finally able to knap into something that I think will fly true and kill a deer this fall. I'm getting better, but I need to learn how to reproduce points of the same size and weights. Those two represent about 85 total grains, and it only took me ruining a little over two hundred pounds of rock to make them. So, here is stuff I do when I don't have stuff to do.
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Last edited by WhitewaterDuck; 02-25-2021 at 05:15 PM.
“I can’t wait ‘till I’m grown” is the stupidest @!#* I ever said!
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