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    FRICTION FIXIN’

    Mar 16, 2021 3 minutes
    Story and Photos by Scott Haugen

    The more time you spend in the spring turkey woods, the more you understand the importance of quality calls—and the need to take care of them. To optimize the quality of the sounds you make to draw in gobblers, conditioning your friction calls before you hit the woods is important. Luckily, it’s simple to do.

    BOX CALLS

    Box calls are the most commonly used friction call. Conditioning a call is preparing it to create

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