MAD calls

[nastygunz]

anybody use them?

[MK-M-GOBL]

Back in the day when I didn't know better I'd rather try to work a soda can with a stick or maybe a blade of grass between my two thumbs before I'd buy one again I've got a turkey DVD I bought in AZ a few weeks ago that I'll give ya if you want it.

After you watch it, glue it to a coffee can and make a friction call out of it. Sorry, but as you can see I dislike them ;D

[nastygunz]

So Tom, what your saying is you dont like them?...")....I on the other hand am a big fan, no pun intended...I use the Heavy Metal and the Aluminator 90% of the time. I got my last big bird with the aluminator. I never heard of them until a friend was using one in VT and he was haulin the birds in. I bought 2 and have been hammerin em ever since. Ive tried alot of calls over the years and those 2 are my go-to's.

[soccerref]

Never used the turkey calls, but the MAD buck roar call worked wonders for my son this past November. They also make good deer hunting videos!

[nastygunz]

I use my Aluminator to heat up ramen noodles in between calls too...")

[MK-M-GOBL]

I've got the Aluminator somewhere in my hunting room. It works but just way too high of pitch. It guess what turned me off the them is the gadgets they come out with, like the dog whistle and the egg! For a while there, I waiting for them to put a turkey foot on a stick and sell it as a turkey feeding scratching stick.

Never tried any of their deer calls and I liked their deer videos in the beginning! before it all went to their heads. If you saw this latest turkey video I just bought, it might make you shake your head a little. It was like they now using deer hunting tactics (stalking) on turkeys

Don't get me wrong, I've put the stalk of a few birds myself but only if or when the situation was right. They don't tell that in the video that their selling to hundreds and hundreds of people. They just put it out there as another way to fill tags and make a video. I think it very careless / unsafe of them to put out something like that. Their not thinking of the new hunters that might be watching their stuff.

[nastygunz]

Hi Tom, well anyhting i buy is with a grain of salt knowing that the bottom line is they want your money...and i have bought and used some real POS hunting gear. For me, the calls work, everyone calls different. I also will pattern and stalk turkeys with success, but VERY carefully. I am already thinking the Saturday opening day is going to be a damn madhouse...makes me nervous I have had more then one incident over the years with other hunters who werent safe or had no ethics or brains. Hmmm, turkey foot on a stick....HMMMMMMMM...

[nastygunz]

Speaking of bringing up the egg call...i tried one in store, didnt like it all...but it makes me think that on NO forum that I can recall has anyone ever "confessed" to using a push/pin type call. I do, they work, I know people who use nothing but and bag birds, I think ignoring them is "call snobbery"...
--------------- Should I feel Shame?:---------------

Hi, my name is (TOP SECRET), and I use a push button turkey call. No, I don’t feel shame. For those of you who do not understand this section I digress; In the outdoor sporting world there are many levels of highbrowers. Highbrower’s are the folks who feel that their techniques and gear are far superior and pose more of a worthy challenge in the sporting world. They tend to raise their eyebrows as they try to look over their nose when peering down at the subjacent outdoorsmen. Certain fly-fishermen have been accused of highbrowing worm-and-bobber fishermen. Some Bow-and-arrow hunters highbrow rifle and shotgun hunters, Meat hunters get highbrowed by trophy hunters and I have even seen in the fly-fishing camarilla, dry fly piscators highbrow the lowly nymph anglers. What kind of fly fisherman would ever tie on a nymph? In the turkey hunting world, the push button callers get highbrowed by all callers except the electronic callers, they are the real proletariat’s, I say with my eyebrows raised high. I feel that the use of a push button call is sporting and ethical in the pursuit of turkeys, so therefore I feel no shame when using one,