Thought I'd introduce myself, I'm Brad Gainey from TN. I predator hunt for the most part... wife and girls wouldn't eat any of the wild game I brought home (Quail, Rabbit, Dove, and Deer) so I migrated to hunting coyotes... after hunting them for a while, being my nature I looked at the call I was using, and thought... heck I could make that... it pretty much grew from there.. and I started making my own coyote calls (distress mainly.. they'll call any predator I reckon) They've turned high end through the years... I don't make that many, spend a bit of time on each one and as I said it's a hobby.. I keep it fun by doing it when I'm in the "mood". Thought you might like to see a few..
One of my lower end calls... this has a spalted Hackberry barrel.. with a Buffalo horn bead and tone-board.
Pretty much middle of the road... it's a Desert Ironwood burl barrel with pre-ban elephant Ivory bead, and Hippo Ivory toneboard.
Next step up would be this one.. it's a Hippo tooth Ivory barrel with a Buffalo horn tone-board.
To-date this is top of the line... it's a Hippo Tooth Ivory barrel with a Hippo tooth Ivory tone-board.
tough stuff but I noticed a 60 watt light bulb on my lathe will make 'er glow... pretty cool as hard as it is the translucence is amazing!
