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Entry by: Andy Cobb (GhostBird Custom Calls)
Division: 1 - Decorative Turkey Calls
Category: 20 - Scratch Box
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Medal - Best of Class III - Friction Champion Design
Medal - 1st place


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Ball handled Scratch Box call # 37 is crafted from gold stabilized Spalted Maple & Gaboon Ebony with a Mahogany soundboard. The call has an Ebony finger rail that is wrapped with leather lace which also tethers the matching striker featuring a slate playing surface. A faux ivory carved & painted secondary wing feather adorns the call partially covering a sound port. The call & striker are displayed on a bowl shaped Osage base.

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More information about Andy Cobb

Andy Cobb makes unique one of a kind decorative turkey calls along with several styles of calls that are his own design. These “Hollowbody” calls include single side and double side box calls along with scratchboxes and baffled trumpets. He started making turkey calls around 2002 and it quickly became GhostBird Custom Calls. Crafting turkey calls and turkey hunting are Andy’s passion and he has been participating in the NWTF Grand National Callmaking Competition for many years and has received over 150 awards for his decorative calls. Andy also won the "Tom Turpin Award" in 2019 for the best turned style trumpet in the hunting division and was honored to be inducted into the 2023 Turkey Call Maker Hall of Fame.

Awards for Andy Cobb


This contest has a long history of 20+ years. The awards listed below are for the most recent years only.

2018 3rd Best of Class I - Division 1 - Call# 945
2018 1st Place Call# 945 Decorative Turkey division in Category 1
2018 4th Place Call# 946 Decorative Turkey division in Category 13
2018 2nd Place Call# 947 Decorative Turkey division in Category 19
2018 3rd Best of Class III - Division 1 - Call# 949
2018 1st Place Call# 949 Decorative Turkey division in Category 20
2018 1st Best of Class IV - Division 1 - Call# 950
2018 1st Place Call# 950 Decorative Turkey division in Category 25
2019 2nd Best of Class IV - Division 1 - Call# 669
2019 1st Place Call# 669 Decorative Turkey division in Category 26
2019 1st Best of Class IV - Division 1 - Call# 668
2019 1st Place Call# 668 Decorative Turkey division in Category 25
2019 2nd Place Call# 667 Decorative Turkey division in Category 24
2019 2nd Best of Class III - Division 1 - Call# 665
2019 1st Place Call# 665 Decorative Turkey division in Category 20
2019 4th Place Call# 664 Decorative Turkey division in Category 14
2019 3rd Best of Class II - Division 1 - Call# 662
2019 2nd Place Call# 662 Decorative Turkey division in Category 13
2019 2nd Place Call# 661 Decorative Turkey division in Category 5
2019 2nd Place Call# 660 Decorative Turkey division in Category 2
2019 1st Place Call# 659 Decorative Turkey division in Category 1
2019 Best of Class III - Division 2 - Call# 656
2019 1st Place Call# 656 Hunting Turkey division in Category 10
2020 1st Best of Class IV - Division 1 - Call# 546
2021 Call# 388 1st Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 1
2021 Call# 389 1st Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 4
2021 1st Best of Class I - Division 1 - Call# 390
2021 Call# 390 1st Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 8
2021 3rd Best of Class II - Division 1 - Call# 391
2021 Call# 391 1st Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 12
2021 2nd Best of Class II - Division 1 - Call# 392
2021 Call# 392 2nd Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 13
2021 3rd Best of Class III - Division 1 - Call# 393
2021 Call# 393 1st Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 20
2021 1st Best of Class IV - Division 1 - Call# 394
2021 Call# 394 1st Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 25
2021 3rd Best of Class IV - Division 1 - Call# 395
2021 Call# 395 2nd Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 26
2020 3rd Place Decorative Box Call (glued box and glued lid design, other than categories 2-8) Call #378
2020 2nd Place Decorative Box Call (solid one piece box and lid of natural wood, not glued, painted, or carved) Call #379
2020 2nd Place Decorative Box Call (open) Call #385
2020 5th Place Scratch Box Call #463
2020 2nd Place Locator Call Call #464
2020 1st Place Matched Set/multiple calls Call #546
2020 5th Place Jordan Style Yelper Call #549
2022 Call# 282 4th Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 1
2022 Call# 283 3rd Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 8
2022 Call# 284 2nd Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 12
2022 Call# 285 3rd Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 13
2022 Call# 286 1st Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 20
2022 Call# 287 4th Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 24
2022 2nd Best of Class IV - Division 1 - Call# 288
2022 Call# 288 2nd Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 25
2022 3rd Best of Class IV - Division 1 - Call# 289
2022 Call# 289 1st Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 26
2023 Call# 751 2nd Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 1
2023 Call# 961 4th Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 12
2023 Call# 962 4th Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 13
2023 3rd Best of Class III - Call# 1051
2023 Call# 1051 1st Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 20
2023 Call# 1052 2nd Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 24
2023 2nd Best of Class IV - Call# 1127
2023 Call# 1127 1st Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 25
2023 1st Best of Class IV - Call# 1189
2023 Call# 1189 1st Place winner - Decorative Turkey category 26
2023 Call# 1305 2nd Place winner - Decorative Duck & Goose category 12

Other 2024 Entries by Andy Cobb


Division 2
Hunting Turkey Calls

Category 12:
Turned Trumpet Call

User entered description: Hollowbody trumpet handcrafted from Osage & African Blackwood. The flared bell is terminated with an octagonal baffle and the call sports a curved faux horn oval mouthpiece with a cork lip stop.

Go to Entry #1280
Division 2
Hunting Turkey Calls

Category 14:
Jordan Style Yelper

User entered description: Jordan style yelper handcrafted from Osage & East Indian Rosewood with a curved faux horn oval mouthpiece sporting an Osage lip stop.

Go to Entry #1281
Division 2
Hunting Turkey Calls

Category 14:
Jordan Style Yelper

User entered description: Jordan Yelper handcrafted from Desert Ironwood & African Blackwood. The call has an octagonal bell, a round mid-section with a lanyard groove, and a curved faux ivory oval mouthpiece with a cork lipstop.

Go to Entry #1282
Division 2
Hunting Turkey Calls

Category 16:
Scratch Box Design

User entered description: Ball handled Scratch Box #36 is handcrafted from Zebrawood with laminated Pheasantwood diagonal stripes and features a Mahogany soundboard. The matching slate surface striker is tethered with leather bolo cord and matching beads.

Go to Entry #1283
Division 1
Decorative Turkey Calls

Category 3:
Decorative Box Call (carved and painted)

User entered description: Single Side Hollowbody Box Call #150 is handcrafted from highly figured stabilized Cottonwood and East Indian Rosewood with a Holly soundboard featuring a carved & painted turkey tail feather. The pommel figured Bubinga paddle with a Rosewood thumb tab features a carved & painted gobbler with a glass eye standing proud against a stippled background.

Go to Entry #1284
Division 1
Decorative Turkey Calls

Category 12:
Turned Barrel trumpet style (no carving and/or painting)

User entered description: Hollowbody trumpet handcrafted from figured Knobthorn Acacia. The large flared octagonal bell terminates with a baffle and tapers to an oval Amber mouthpiece. The call features a deer antler lanyard ring & lip stop and is displayed on a deer antler base.

Go to Entry #1285
Division 1
Decorative Turkey Calls

Category 13:
Air operated Yelper (open, other than categories 10-12)

User entered description: One of a kind yelper handcrafted from Whitetail Antler & Bloodwood. The curved wingbone style mouthpiece is made from faux ivory and has an antler lip stop. The call is adorned with leather fringe and has an adjustable leather bolo cord lanyard with antler beads & horn tip fobs.

Go to Entry #1286
Division 1
Decorative Turkey Calls

Category 26:
Best Overall Presentation

User entered description: A modern spin on some of the classic historical yelpers in this matched set of calls crafted from East Indian Rosewood & Brown Mallee Burl. The stylized wingbone mouthpieces are made from faux ivory with cork lipstops and the set includes a matching adjustable length leather bolo cord lanyard. The Red Oak & Barnwood shadowbox display case has faux ivory pegs to display the calls & lanyard.

Go to Entry #1417