Trinity Wood Game Calls is keeping with their tradition of only using the best hard woods, the best handmade springs, and working hard to make each call sound like a real turkey!  The only thing we try to copy is real turkeys, and real elk!  All Squawking Mama'sn are made from “heart of cherry, guitar wood, maple and hickory".  Hickory is a beautiful hard wood and makes a great paddle for this call, allowing even the softest purrs easy to be duplicated.  Most push button yelpers use rubber bands, a wire, a soft spring and added weights, to manage the paddle pressure, but Trinity, wanting to provide the finest call, designed and makes their own springs so and Squawking Mama can make her sounds even when she is held upside down!

Almost every yelper offered in the market today are not finished, they are raw, or raw sanded wood.  The Squawking Mama 3 is finished both on the inside and out with a special blend of finishes.  Each call is sanded and finished 2 times on both surfaces, but leaving the sound board and sound post alone, this helps make SQM3 able to make incredible sounds.  Built to fit the smaller hands, or gloved hands, of any turkey hunter, this call just naturally fits in one hand with the push rod within easy reach of the index finger.  Trinity has taken this call one step further and had the side of the box engraved.

No matter how you look at it, or how you turn it to use it, you can make ever sound you want simply pushing the top rod, or pulling on the bottom guide rod.

Yelps/cluck - by pushing the top rod in short strokes, or pulling from the bottom using similar strokes, mimic the sound of a hen getting attention.  A fast, short stroke and you get a yelp, yelps are lead in sounds to cackles, and sometimes purrs!  Clucks are more feeding and sounds used while traveling along in the flock feeding.  Mix a few yelps and clucks to mimic more than one bird.

Cackles - just a bit longer version of a yelp, just push/pull the paddle in a longer fashion, but more rapidly making that fly down with a slow yelp, followed by 4 - 6 fast paced longer strokes, followed by a few slower cackles.  This is the vocalization of hens and particularly the lead hen, she is the boss and evey tom wants her.  If you listen in the turkey woods and hear a constant, loud, scraping sounding cackle, thats the older hens sounding off to claim whos boss.  There is not set sound to the cackle, but there is rhythm to it so mimic what you hear from any hen.

Purrs - with light pressure on the rods, push/pull gently allowing the paddle to move slowly and lightly scrape/bounce on the post.  It makes a throaty scratchy, or scrapy sound.  Its meant to be a more quite, flock vocalization, so dont be loud with it!  Its the sign of contentment used a lot while feeding and courting

Putts -   there are two types of putts!  You don't want to confuse them when making that sound, if you make the fast paced and louder putt, you will send every bird within hearing distance off on the patented, turkey trot!  The "walking putt" as I like to call it since thats when I see it the most often, is when hens are walking along trying to make contact with the flock.  To make this sound the easiest way, hold the call on one hand, the open side of the call toward your body, and with the other hand cupped over the top rod, pop the rod making a fast, but muted yelp, or cluck!  It's not real loud, and its not a full scraping cackle, just a fast quick pop of the call and you get the safe, communicating putt.

The best bird hunting you can do is using quiality decoys, and using numerous sounds.  Calling turkeys is more about "rhythm" than the perfect note, or sound combo.  Calling turkeys is about timing, and the rhythm you use making the notes and sounds.  Here are a few other sounds you might want to learn how to make as you use decoys and calls

Scratching - keep some leaves near you in the blind or near you sit, take a small branch and scrath the leaves back and fourth

Drumming - toms and jakes do this with their wings out but pointed toward the ground, its a great safe call to use in the morning when the flock is heading toward the mid day nests and you want to try to bring in the toms, it can be a challange call to toms.  This is a display sound and look of the toms as they try to look and sound impressive.  Used in the mornings and evenings as they birds move from and to roosting areas

Spit-hummm - this is a sound that toms make and you can make with your mouth.  Make a ffffffeeetttttttttt sound poping your lower lip off your upper teeth followed by blowing lightly through your partially open mouth.  Hummm lightly as you blow that air through your mouth.  I don't describe this well but watch the video of the calls and you can hear and see this sound.

Care for your call!

 A note of caution when using any, wood or wood mixed, yelper!  The sound board, the bottom, of the call and the sound post are not water proof and most are not water resistant.  Most wood, or wood mix, yelpers do hot have any finish on them and are very tempermental in wet weather.  I have finished the inside and out of my call, but the post and sound board have NOT been finished that would kill the call.  You can lay this call on its side or face down, letting the wet ground touch the sides and top of the paddle, but keep the sound board and post dry!   Allow the call to dry naturally in open air, you can wipe down any crapola off the sides of the call, but just let it air out and dry.  If you want to keep it pristine, put a small amount of "orange oil" on a cloth and light wipe the outsides of the call and let the oil restore the finish!

Touching up the paddle - if the sound starts to weaken, or you touch the underside of the paddle and it won't make a sound!  Using 100 grit, or perhaps 150 grit, sand paper.  Lift the paddle to a verticle position, and sand with the grain, or slightly across grain, until the tracking mark of the post is almost gone.  Then put the paddle back down on the post and make a few cackle strokes to set the paddle

Touching up the post - this is a more difficult job and requires a very steady hand or you can ruin the post.  Gently lift the paddle to verticle and hold it with one hand.  Using 150 grit sand paper very lightly trace the flat part of the post on each side from low on the post up to the point.  Then do a smiliar move up the front larger flat angle till the point at the top is back in good shape.  Then using a flat part of the paper, gently pake a light pass to remove the very top of the point.  Gently let the paddle rest on the post and make a number of long cackle strokes to reset the paddle.  If you have any problem doing this please call me (970.988.3490) and I will help you get it back in shape.  If we can't get it back, I can always make you a new post and ship it to you!