Knight & Hale one piece wooden turkey tube call without decorative rings on straight-tapered bell

Object/Artifact

Wild Turkey Archives

A one-piece wooden tube call by Knight & Hale with "John-Deere" lanyard handmade by David Hale

Name/Title

Knight & Hale one piece wooden turkey tube call without decorative rings on straight-tapered bell

Entry/Object ID

PTC002A0010

Description

After making tube calls with PVC cylinders and pill bottles, Harold Knight continued experimenting with his design, and in 1975, Knight & Hale began to make some wooden tube goose calls. Jack Thomas made all of the early wooden tubes, and Knight glued in the lip stops and applied all the finish. Few woods were used, with walnut being the most common. The pictured call does not have grooving (decorative "rings") on the bell, indicating that it is one of the early one-piece wooden tubes. It also has a green lanyard. That story is fully told in Yelp & Gobble, Inc. by Brent Rogers. The first handmade lanyards they made, before purchasing machine crimping units, were all handmade by David Hale and painted with green John-Deere paint by Eric Mitchell; hence, they refer to the green lanyard pictured as “the John Deere lanyards.” Some of the one-piece tubes had slightly curved bells (barrel-shaped), while others had a more straight taper as pictured.

Collection

Brent Rogers collection

Cataloged By

Brent Rogers

Condition

Overall Condition

Very Good

Date Examined

Mar 8, 2026

Created By

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Create Date

March 8, 2026

Updated By

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Update Date

March 8, 2026