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Vintage Game Calls

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JEB:
I have two small calls. The one that is marked Herters does not have the top piece that you move over the top to make a noise. It has a cork in the end but there is nothing in the hole. My guess would be that hole in the end held a striker that you rubbed across the top of the call. Too bad as the call is in really good shape and has Herters stamped on the side.

BrianS:
I remember the Herters catalog back when I was a kid. Spent hours and hours looking through it. Could not buy anything but I sure did dream about ordering stuff.
Over 40 plus years ago, I bought my first turkey call (A Lynch Fool Proof Box Call). I knew nothing about hunting turkeys so I figured a Fool Proof Call was a good choice. Back then the local gun shop had a few calls but nowhere near what is out there now. Still have that old call and now it is considered Vintage! If my first turkey call is vintage what does that make me? Killed several turkeys with it before I literally worn the lid out.

Hawkdancer:
Brian,
Too young to be an "Old fart", but old enough to know better and too young to resist! >:D O:) (lol) :fp
About the only vintage thing I have that I bought is a hunting knife I got when I was about 10 or so, Soligen steel, tooled leather sheath with a stag head.  I converted the sheath to left handed, and did the stag head over in beadwork.  It is one of my dress knives for Rendezvous!
Hawkdancer

Eric Krewson:
The Herter's catalog was the highpoint of my youth in the 50s. Everything was marketed as "Professional", I still have my "Professional" tanning and fly tying guides.

I had a paper route and would save my pennies to buy fishing stuff. It didn't matter how small an order was, they would fil it, I remember sending one in for 35 cents worth of hooks.

I tied all my lead heads with the illegal polar bear hair from them (no one knew it was protected). Fines and legal issues eventually sunk the company.

I still had a stash of Herter's fishing dry flies, spoons and lures in my tackle box until about 30 years ago when I left my tackle box in my boat when I returned from a afternoon fishing trip. I parked my boat in the driveway of my house in our subdivision planning to go fishing at first light the next morning. When I got up to go fishing I found that some lowlife had relieved me of my tackle box over night.

BrianS:
Eric,
Here are a couple of pictures of the Herter's Professional Guide Manual
The cover and one of the pages about what a dog really is written by George L, Herter himself.
Take care,
brian

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