Archery Business Jan-Feb 2012
KNIGHT HALE 40TH ANNIVERSARY 5 Game Changers K H EZ Grunter Xtreme New for 2012 Calls That Made A Difference T he manufacture of duck and goose calls may only be a 160 yearold industry but men have been calling game by mouth and with reeds and leaves for thousands of years Archaeologists have documented that Indians used wingbone style yelpers made from bone and antler to call turkeys as early as 8000 BC And Ishi the last wild Indian in America folded the leaf of a madrone tree and blew across it to attract deer The contributions of Harold Knight and David Hale while historically recent are part of an ancient and respected hunting tradition Still call making is a business Here are a few of the calls that over 40 years have made Knight Hale a household name calls that David describes as Game Changers commercial home runs 1Double Clucker Fall 1987 The goose call that sounds through inhalation and exhalation without switching ends It has won the World Calling Championship three times 2 EZ Grunt er Fall 1987 This inhale exhale grunt call with adjustable mouthpiece reproduces plenty of deer sounds including a hyperventilating buck a sound no previous call maker had reproduced The corrugated EZ Grunt er hose is the diameter of a deers windpipe This promotes accurate tone as well as a highly desirable guttural sound 44 archeryBUSINESS January February 2012 The Lil Yeller is a child of the famous Ol Yeller friction call that helped establish Knight Hale as a force in the outdoor world The Sla Tek striking surface is the rst surface speci cally formulated for turkey calls K H Ultimate Fighting Purr 3Fighting 3 Purr Spring 1992 This call system mimics the sound of two ghting gobblers and David feels it kind of put Knight Hale on the map It has been recreated as the Ultimate Fighting Purr 4Ol Yeller Spring 1997 It was a good name David says People 4 bers 5 remembered Disneys 1957 movie Old Yeller We sold tremendous numbers A classic friction call with a new Sla Tek surface designed speci cally for friction calls Reinventing this older design with a new yellow tinted material has extended the calls usefulness says Pradcos Mike Mattly 5Pack Rack Deer Rattling System Fall 2009 A recent innovation that sounds like two bucks ghting over a doe This compact hand held plastic device is as effective as rattling antlers but easier to carry and manage in a stand It produces realistic sounds and gives a hunter ngertip control of the ghting sequence Weve sold a hundred thousand or more David says K H Pack Rack Magnum
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