Wingbone Strikers

ICDEDTURKES · Post by **ICDEDTURKES** » February 24th, 2013, 10:00 am

At the convention I was sitting with Larry Shockey and he was pulling stuff out of his treasure chest.. He pulled out two wingbone strikers that had obviously been to war with many a gobbler and showed me how he altered the tips to make them run better.. I grabbed a couple a calls from the table thinking these things would produce a simple little clear to clear hen yelp or something.. The sound they produced

me.. The things ran beautifully and had a wide range of sounds that were all turkey..

Who all runs a wingbone striker?

drenalinld · Post by **drenalinld** » February 24th, 2013, 1:26 pm

Never have tried one, but Shockey is a machine! I want some now.

GLS · Post by **GLS** » February 24th, 2013, 6:26 pm

Years ago a callmaker gave me a striker made from a snow goose wingbone stuck in a corncob. It works fine although it's awkward to hold as not much bone sticks out of the cob.

Gobblerstopper · Post by **Gobblerstopper** » February 24th, 2013, 7:48 pm

I have one made from a leg bone and a wing bone. It sounds great on crystal.

Post by **Hoobilly** » February 24th, 2013, 9:49 pm

pictures?

SCtrkyhntr · Post by **SCtrkyhntr** » February 24th, 2013, 10:09 pm

I have one...it sounds pretty good on glass or crystal.

GLS · Post by **GLS** » February 25th, 2013, 6:21 am

Post by **Hoobilly** » February 25th, 2013, 9:14 am

thanks for posting that picture. I need to find my wingbones from the snow I killed and try that out.

ICDEDTURKES · Post by **ICDEDTURKES** » February 25th, 2013, 9:27 am

hoobilly wrote:pictures?

The first I really liked was a basic wingbone.. The 2nd one that was still good but preffered the first had some corncob on it.

Southern Sportsman · February 26th, 2013, 1:51 am

I don't have a specific wingbone striker, but I have used my winbone calls as strikers at times. They sound fine but I don't use them often because I cant get the range of sounds that I can with a regular striker.

gaswamp · Post by **gaswamp** » February 26th, 2013, 7:13 am

Fred Cox makes a nice goosebone striker that sounds good

SCtrkyhntr · Post by **SCtrkyhntr** » February 26th, 2013, 8:20 am

Here is the one I have. I don't remember who made it. I know about 3 years ago Harold Fowler had some at the nationals that were way better than the one I have or others I have played.

paboxcall · Post by **paboxcall** » March 6th, 2013, 10:45 pm

I have a small corn cob / wing bone striker that Ralph Snodgrass made. Matter of fact, that striker may be one of a kind. His buddy George whittled that osage striker sitting with it by the way, that is my go-to striker when running a slate call. Sitting on top of a Mad Hatter pocket slate in bocote...Nice trio, don't you think?

Treerooster · Post by **Treerooster** » March 6th, 2013, 11:23 pm

paboxcall wrote:Nice trio, don't you think?

Yeah.

Good to see you still around John.

I think of you and the advice you gave me when I made my seed call strikers.

paboxcall · Post by **paboxcall** » March 7th, 2013, 10:17 pm

Treerooster wrote:
paboxcall wrote:Nice trio, don't you think?
Yeah.

Good to see you still around John.

I think of you and the advice you gave me when I made my seed call strikers.

Good to hear from you too. That was a great project you did and I enjoyed helping you with it.

I'm totally ready to start hunting this spring!

John

SCtrkyhntr · Post by **SCtrkyhntr** » March 8th, 2013, 6:47 pm

gaswamp wrote:Fred Cox makes a nice goosebone striker that sounds good

I played some of Fred's bone strikers last week and they do sound good. I actually ended up buying some one peice strikers and a bone yelper from him.

cut_un · Post by **cut_un** » January 24th, 2014, 2:58 pm

WOW... will definately give this a try...Always have a few bones laying around, goose and turkey! Neat idea!

Hobie · Post by **Hobie** » January 24th, 2014, 4:52 pm

Here is a Jim McNeil that I use its a striker and a wingbone yelper

cut_un · Post by **cut_un** » January 24th, 2014, 6:42 pm

Sweet! A great idea

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