Some Special "One Off" calls...............

[redbeard]

Made some calls I made recently...........

Here are two for none other than Mr. Charlie Trotter. He graciously gave me the opportunity to put a few masterpieces of his own into a couple track players. Sorry for the camera brightness, but those are dogwood blossoms Charlie carved from deer antler inlaided into cocobolo pots, even got one small blossom inlaid in the peg head. Mr. Trotter is one of Illinois, the country's in fact, premier call builders and for him to ask one of me was quite humbling.




Here's a Thunderbird, known in many Indian cultures. The Dakota word for it is Kinyan meaning winged. Others called it Wakan for sacred power. The Chippewa stated that the eyes of the Thunderbird flashed with fire, his glance engendered lightning, and the flapping of his wings produced thunder.

The Lakota believed, and other tribes, that if you had a dream or vision of birds, you were destined to be a medicine man ( I guess that makes us a bunch of medicine men cuz I dream of wild turkeys quite often) ; but if you had a vision of the Thunderbird, it was your destiny to become something else; heyoka, or sacred clown, the Trickster. Like the Thunderbird, the heyoka were at once both feared and held in reverence.

So perhaps this Thunderbird call will be the "TRICKSTER" ta kill an ol' gobbler one day In fact, that's what I'll call this...The Trickster Track Player




It's a mammoth ivory piece some Inuit carved honu's (sea turtles). Bought this piece long long time ago with intents to inlay into a call. When I got it in the mail, it scart me. Too many curves, ins and outs fer a rookie. Well, I found it again and gave it a shot. I think it came out pretty good for a noahcounthalfarsedcallmakerbutpurtygoodturkeykille rdatswipesdisfrodattamakedis.




Thanks fer lookin' and forgive me boldness...................

[Rhino]

WOW redbeard. Some great looking calls. It's easy to see what you've been doing with a lot of your spare time.

Glad to see you back too. Lookin forward to another memorable turkey season both hunting and reading your turkey tales along with other turkey tails in here.

[Strut10]

Good stuff RB!!

[Covehnter]

Very impressive!! Glad to see you back on the board and still kickin'!! Not to long til more Ga longbeards will be in for the dead bird rodeo!!

[huntn4bucks]

Very nice work redbeard. See you at the Nats in a couple weeks.

[okiedog]

Very nice looking calls.

[drkillemquick]

Impressive calls! They are beautiful! Nice to see you back! Can't wait to hear about your turkey hunting adventures this year!

[dosse]

Good looking calls

[toddyboman]

Those are some great looking calls!!!

[PAstringking]

those are some great looking calls

love the tracks

[VermontHunter]

Simply AWSOME,,, what a talent.... THANKS for the looksie...

[need2hunt]

Great lookin calls RB!!!

[wtnhunt]

Welcome back redbeard. Some really nice looking calls there.

[BAMABUCKS]

Awesome work Redbeard...great wriiting as usual. Looking forward to reading more of your turkey tails this spring. Got any birds picked out & named yet?

[hunterDWL]

great looking calls