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Bud & Betty Custom Calls
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My interest in the wild turkey first started about 1972 when I was 15 years old. A small flock of birds moved into some woods that I squirrel hunted in. I remember telling some of my friends about seeing the turkeys and they thought I was crazy because you just didn’t have turkeys much in that part of Arkansas in those days.
I grew up just west of Little Rock. My best friend, Philip, had a father who was a trapper/game warden for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and was a hell of a woodsman. Bob took the first bird out of that flock during the fall season, a big old hen. After that, Bob got me interested in turkey calls although neither one of us knew a whole lot. At the time, Arkansas had a spring squirrel season that was open the same time as the turkey season. Hunting turkeys was secondary, just something to do while squirrel hunting. But I remember walking into the woods one morning and hearing my first wild turkey gobble. That’s when things changed.
I had no call and a single shot 16 gauge. I tried to sneak up on the bird while he gobbled his head off on top of a pine ridge. I got too close, and watched the bird fly off the side of the hill. That one encounter with the wild turkey got me started!
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