MANN MADE TURKEY CALLS

My name is Steve Mann. I grew up as a young man in the very small, little country town of Waterloo, South Carolina. I had hunted squirrel and deer from the age of ten until Roger Mann, one of my six brothers, introduced me to the wild turkey in my early twenties. It was not until I reached my early twenties that Roger introduced me to hunting the wild turkey. I still have fond memories of the very first turkey he called up for me. This gobbler went by gobbling his head off without me even getting a glimpse of him and my brother saying why didn't you shoot!! I was mesmerized and deer hunting immediately took a backseat to turkey hunting. One day while turkey hunting with a close friend Harrison Forrester, who owned a Neil Cost turkey call made from Mahogany and walnut, I learned firsthand how realistic Neil's calls were. That call made turkeys gobble on days when they just were not responding to anything else very well. I knew I had to meet the man that could make such a fine call.....