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.
A couple of my favorite calls.
SPRING "2010"
14 year old Daniel Ludwig with a big New York gobbler.
Youth hunter 9 yr. old Tanner Pursell with a nice bird called in
by Josh Hobson
Adrian Lass with a bird called in Youth hunter Ryan shown with uncle
from a ground blind. Beard 9 1/2" - Spurs 5/8"
Both birds were called in by Matt Dunbar of Medford, OR
John Vernon and friend Matt Russell Stephens with 2nd bird
"Your call brought in these two birds giving my " My second bird of the Spring, my first to
buddy and I a clear shot at our first birds. Just have called in solo with the BBCUSTOM
want to say thanks for your help and your calls Slate." 9 1/2" brd.- 3/4" spurs - 20 lbs.
are amazing!" John Russell
Nicholas Fashing (r) with friend J.D. Russell Stephens with opening day
birds were called in by Nicholas. bird in Oregon.
Jim Baublit with a couple of nice Oregon opening weekend birds.
10 yr. old Owen Hornbeck with his first Spring turkey 9" beard . With dad Jeff.
"Thanks the box call worked great." Jeff
Oregon hunter Brian Lund with two nice eastern Oregon birds.
California hunter Gerry Madrid and her first spring gobbler.
"Hi Bill, How did you know? I did get my first Spring turkey this year, and I did it using your
box call. I show it to everyone. Thanks again for making such a great call." Gerry
Seth Moore of Redding, CA with two big toms 9 1/4" beards & 3/4" spurs
"Hey Bill, Here are two of my birds from this year. Both were called in with your pot call.
It worked great!" Thanks, Seth
Alabama turkey hunter Scott Randolph with 5 outstanding gobblers.
"Hi Bill, good to here from you. Still enjoying your calls and they have helped bring me success
in the turkey woods this season. I tagged out in Alabama this year with a limit of 5 birds."
Best of luck, Scott
Mark Taylor with a nice bird with a 9" beard
"Hey there, love the call. Hammered a nice 9" bearded bird this morning"
California Bow hunter Jack Holman with a fine opening weekend bird.
" We had a very interesting start for our California turkey season. Cold, rain mixed with snow.
The birds were plentiful but very strange acting. They did not seem to have any interest in decoys
and not much interest in calls. They gobbled a bit on the roost and went quiet all day. I was fortunate
to find a nice little bunch of hens with a good tom and worked them for four days. I missed two shots at close range
partially due to the rain, poor visibility and wind. At least that is my excuse. On day four the tom with twelve hens
came in but not in range and appeared to want to come no closer. As a last resort as the hens were leaving, I gave
a nice quiet little call with your copper pot call and the tom came back to twenty five yards to investigate the wayward
hen who was lagging behind. All I could see was head neck and a little more but the shot was good and the arrow
put him down with no problem. I seriously doubt he would have come back for that last look without that copper call."
SPRING "2009"
Merle Cain of Eugene Oregon with two real nice birds.
A good bird taken by Calif. hunter Kevin Taylor
18 lbs. - 9" Beard - 7/8" Spurs
Brian Lund with a huge N.E. Oregon bird.
appx. 25 lbs. - 9 1/4" beard - 1 1/4" spurs
"I had been scouting this tom before the spring season opened and knew that there
was a grandpa in the area I hunt. No sign of him on opening morning, so as evening came I
pitched myself 20 ft. up in a tree for about 3 hours. Waiting patiently for this big boy to return
with his ladies and sure enough he did. I used my slate call ( which you engraved my name into,
very nicely I must say ). After a few yelps and clucks, he hurried on over to see what all the commotion was about.
Thanks for making such greatly tuned calls!"
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Ryan McKillop and Zach Rose Jerry Rice
Ryan's bird 22 - 10 7/8" - 1 1/4" with a nice
Zach's bird 17 - 9 3/4" - 1" Rio Grand
Ken LaPage of New Hampshire with a big late season gobbler.
20 lbs - 10 3/4" beard - 1 1/8" & 1 3/16" spurs L.
Ken with sons Kolin & Kyle and Tom Staples of NHW&W
10 yr. old Kolin's first bird 20.5 lbs 12 yr. old Kyle's second bird 16 lbs. R.
Russell Stephens with his first turkey
18 lbs. - 8" & 7" beards - 7/8" spurs
Jim Baublit relayed this story to me.
Well, I know good turkey hunters never get out of their vehicle without being "totally" ready to call in a bird......but we did.......that's just the way we roll!! After 4 yelps we had a gobbler 150 yards out go double red on us!
He was double and triple gobbling at those 4 simple yelps, so, after the two of us ran three laps around the truck looking for head nets and camo I found Russell hiding behind the tail gate saying, my shells are still in the truck, well, we managed to get his shells in his gun and get far enough from the truck to set up. After we both found a good patch of poison oak to set in we were ready to play the game, seems those big trees are hard to find with a hot bird running at ya. Got'em within 60 yards in about 60 second........then he locked-up on a creek bottom, 30 minutes later I gave him the silent treatment to get him to break, and it worked great, however, the time lapse wasn't doing Russell any good, I could see he had vibrated himself into the ground about 6 inches.......I'm not kidding when I say there were trees 15 feet away from Russell shaking like they had one of those devices they use to shake walnuts' out of walnut trees..lol.. I was having a hard time keeping the laughter down, but I managed.
You know that "I'm here" gobble they give you when they're about 35 yards out that goes through you like a bass drum, well, I thought that was the end to poor ol Russell, it shattered him like a window, surprisingly as soon as that bird came into view I saw a calm come over him and it played out text book, bird went down at 18 yards out. Come to find out later the calm that came over Russell was he'd hyperventilated and probably passed out for a second, he said he saw two birds there for a minute, he had to shake his head to get his vision back, I had to reassure him there was still only one bird there the whole time....
We were both shaking so bad at the end of all this Russell looked at me and said "I've never smoked a day in my life but for some reason I feel like in need a cigarette!!!" lol
What a hunt!
Tony Bakker of Oregon Jeff Parker with 19 lb bird
9 1/4" beard - 3/4" spurs taken with a bow
Jim Baublit with Black Hills bird.
19 lb. - 9" beard - 1" spurs
Picture shows what our hunting site looked like when we arrived.
Calif. bow hunter Jack Holman with his first bird of 2009
"I cannot tell you how much I am enjoying hunting with the
call and how well it works. Your box call is just what I had been meaning
when I told you I wanted a really good box call."
23 lbs. - 7" beard - 1 3/8" & 1 1/8" hooks
Another bird for Jack Holman Missouri bow hunter Jack Baumstark
Check out that beard! about to release on a big tom.
My son Jim Baublit with two nice 2009 Oregon birds.
Alabama turkey hunter Scott Randoph with Big 2009 bird.
"Thought you would like to know the box call I bought from you sweet talked
this old gobbler in for me this morning. Great calls,I am really proud of
the box and pot you made. Keep up the good work."
20.8 lbs. - 10 3/4" beard - 1 1/4" Spurs
SPRING "2008"
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 Bill Leever Jr. of Medford, Or.
with a bow. "On the opener I setup with a 25 1/4 lb. bird with a
and called in these two toms and my 10 1/2" beard and was called
buddy and I shot them at 20 yds." in by Marc Bayliss of Medford
9 1/2" & 10 1/4" beards. Jackson County, Oregon
SPRING "2007"
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.
"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." Fred Pariani
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.
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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