Bill Baublit Custom Box Calls
Bill Baublit Custom Box Calls
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This page is devoted to all Turkey Hunters
that use our Calls. We love to here success stories.
If you use one of our Calls send a picture and a
short story of how you got your bird.
This is of the Calls I use every Spring
This is NORCALGOBBLER Zach Rose with a real nice 2008 opening weekend bird.
After calling in 4 Jakes, 1 Longbeard (who I couldn't get a shot on) and two hunters the day paid off at 10:15 am.
I called this guy in with another Jake. He sent the Jake in first, then made the mistake of getting within range.
The Baublit Box Call takes another Tom.
18 lbs. 9" beard 1" & 7/8" spurs
Zach Rose with sons Orion & Chase
Here's Orion, Chase and I with my son Orion's first turkey
bagged opening weekend 2008. It is a true north coast
wild gobbler who fell victim to a Bill Baublit box call near
Fort Bragg, CA. The gobbler was well over 20 lbs. it had
10 1/8" brd. & 1 1/8" & 1 3/16" razor sharp spurs.
Kansas turkey hunter Lee Sabata Oregon hunter Bob Fraley
with his first Oceola gobbler 2008 with a bird taken in So. OR.
19 lbs. 8.5" beard 3/4" & 1/2" spurs 9" beard 1" spurs
Bob Fraley Bob Fraley & Son
The picture with my son is his first turkey and he shot it at 15 yds. dropping the bird in its tracks.
I used your call to locate the bird then I called him in with my diaphram. 9 1/2" beard 1" spurs
I got this bird using your call, even though you can't see the beard in the picture this was a really
nice bird . 9" beard 1" spurs
My friend who is not pictured, took two turkeys and my son took one so far. I was lucky enough to
get three this season and your call played a part in every bird.
I love the call and so do the birds.
Darrell Breckel with two birds taken with a bow.
On the opener I set up and called in these 2 toms and my
buddy and I shot them at 20 yds. The beards were 9 1/2"
& 10 1/4" long. I also called in approx. 6 other toms to about
19 yds.
Great call and easy to use!
This is John Shoffner, an avid turkey hunter from Oregon,
with two nice toms he took Spring 2007
John also had another exciting encounter near
the end of the season as he relates in this story.
Hi Bill,
Here it is :)
The last day of the 2007 Spring Turkey season I was hunting a ranch in the Gold Hill, Oregon area. I had set up really early near some birds I had seen the day before.
I was using the Box Call I bought from you and I was working a nice Tom in a tree near me. A hen sitting in a tree must have seen me, it flew down and started in with a warning call and that Tom flew down in the opposite direction, pretty much ending my day. I tried to work him on the ground, but it didn't work, so I walked through a field on this ranch, to a fence bordering another field where I had heard some other Toms gobbling.
I could see a group of turkeys clear on the other side of this other field, they were almost 1/4 mile away. They were just little black dots moving around in a home owner's front yard. So I thought, what the heck, my day is done, I'll mess with them a little. I took off my hat, face netting and jacket. I took out your Box Call and a gobbler call and started working them.
I started in making calls to sound like a fight. As I watched the Turkeys, they started to slowly walk the fence line in the yard, but towards my direction. I kept at it a little here, a little there. I even moved around to make it sound as if the fight was moving, not stationary. Then they started to walk faster, towards my direction, hens leading and Tom's following making all kinds of noise. One of the hens would answer me and call to me relentlessly.
Now they were running, and almost flying towards me down a driveway between the field and where they had been. I thought.... are they actually coming to me? Then when I saw them fly over a fence into the field I was standing near, I hurriedly got dressed again and found some good cover to stand behind.
I kept up the same fight calls, they would answer and they were getting closer.
Soon I saw them about 50 yards away next to a fence along the creek side of the field I was standing near. 3 big Toms and 3 hens. I worked them closer and soon I had to stop calling as they were within shooting range. The hens walked right up to the fence where I was standing on the other side of, within 5 feet of me. The Tom's 20 feet away, just standing there strutting, watching the hens look around and feed some. I was wondering which one was the larger as there was tall grass and it was hard to see below their breast line. My heart was pounding and I was breathing hard just waiting to make the shot. I waited and watched.... I couldn't shoot. There was a thin wire livestock fence separating the turkeys and myself. I didn't have permission to hunt or be on that side of the fence, just the side I was on.
I watched as the hens got bored and slowly walked away in the same direction they came from, Tom's following behind in strut. I thought later, had I set back in the field I was in away from that fence and called, they might have jumped it or walked under and I could have got a shot off. Oh well :)
Just to be able to call those birds in so close like that from so far away and to stand so still behind a small bush and they not see me was as much of a treat, as shooting a nice big Tom !
It was a nice way to end the Spring season !
Thanks for the Box Call and all of the fun I am having with it ! It really works !
John Shoffner
Medford, Oregon
This is my son Jim, with a real nice bird A big RIO I got in California...
he took in the Black Hills of South Dakota 23 lb. 11 in. beard 1 3/8" spurs
Spring 2006 Spring 2007
Husband and wife team from Oregon who have a blast hunting together.
From what I understand Lisa's bird was bigger than Fred's. Ha! Ha!
Spring 2007
Howdy Bill, This is the 19 1/2 pounder Lisa Pariani called in using your box call.
This is one of several birds that were call weary. They came right to her without
a decoy. Lisa's 10 gage did the job.
Howdy Bill, I used my wife's box call she got from you and nailed this nice
tom in steep mountain terrain this Spring.
Here are the birds I took during the 2008 season in several states.
Shown below the pictures are the calls I used to call them in.
The Side checkered Claro & Maple pots have aluminum surfaces.
I received this picture and comments from a
New York turkey hunter and call collector.
Good Evening Bill.
I received one of your calls as a present from my wife for Christmas last year. I collect turkey calls and even though I haven't been collecting all that long,
I am pretty knowledgeable. I wasn't familiar with your calls and was somewhat skeptical when I opened my present. I was honest when I told her it was a very good sounding call.
I missed the first ten or eleven days of New York's turkey season because of work. Although I didn't get my bird this year,
I thought you might appreciate a couple of pictures showing the company your call kept in my turkey vest. The longbox is a Quaker Boy Neil Cost reproduction - signed by Mr. Cost,
and a Neil Cost Match Grade Poplar/Walnut shortbox. Your call added a tone I wanted with me in the woods.
Thank you,
Jim Ramage
Palmyra, NY
INVITATION
To all BBCUSTOMBOXCALL customers
I have recently opened a photo gallery on my website.
Anyone who calls in a turkey using one of my calls can
e-mail me a picture and a short story and I will post them
on my site.
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