I have a couple wingbones out of the last turkey I killed that I intend to someday make an old timey call out of. I remember my great uncle Buster had one that was a wingbone connected into the end of a piece of river cane that was about four inches or so long. He could call them in really well with it too. This had to be around 1970 or so I'd guess, when turkeys were first making their appearance back into Arkansas in a big way. there were a few turkeys there already in parts of the state but they got busy trapping and releasing in the late 60's early 70's at least in the part of the state I'm familiar with. another of my uncles (his name was Lone Barker, how's that for a name eh?) was a state trapper and later when the turkeys got plentiful he was trapping them OUT of Arkansas to trade for bears. With Wisconsin I believe. Now there's bears AND turkeys aplenty in SW Arkansas.

that ended up being a Thump story didn't it?


BKB