HOMEMADE TURKEY CALLS: Calling a turkey is as easy as 
loading a 35 millimeter camera ... we'll explain just ahead 
on Passport to Texas.
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Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

[Turkey call SFX] 

Calling all turkey hunters ... with spring turkey season 
drawing near ... it's time to talk turkey - more accurately - 
talk like a turkey. And all it takes to summon your targets 
is a little creativity.

"This is a turkey call you can easily make out of stuff that you 
have around the house ... (:04)

Texas Parks and Wildlife biologist Ricky Maxey says you 
first take a 35-millimeter film canister ... and cut out one 
half of the bottom. 

" ... then you take a latex glove or a balloon and you cut it square 
and stretch it where there's a little gap of about an eighth of an 
inch between the hard plastic and the open area ... take a rubber 
band and you wrap it around three of four times to hold the 
piece of rubber and that's going to serve as the reed for the 
call. (:19)

To test out the call, put your top lip across the hard part 
of the canister and your bottom lip across the open area..

" ... and you blow down on it (blows) ... and that's it." (:05)

The National Wild Turkey Federation has directions on 
making a similar call from a film canister. Just logon to 
nwtf.org ... you'll find the information in their "tips 
archive" under making a tube call.

That's our show for today ... thank you for joining us ... For 
Texas Parks and Wildlife, I'm Cecilia Nasti.


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