Muhlenberg Students Make Calls

Muhlenberg County Ag. Teacher, Scott Cronin, teaches a unit on wild turkeys in class every year.  This unit covers the anatomy, diet, reproduction, species, habitat, restoration efforts, and characteristics of the wild turkey.  The highlight of the unit is having the students build their own call, learn how to produce turkey sounds with that call, and understand what each sound means.  At the conclusion of this unit, each call maker participates in a calling contest using the call that he/she completed.

There were 23 students, 1 Assistant Principal, and 1 teacher who took part in building calls.  The students selected the color of the stain that they wanted for their call.  They sanded them, stained them, applied polyerethane gloss, and assembled the call.  When this project was completed, the students had a wonderful keepsake for themselves or a great call to give to a diehard turkey hunter.

Derby City believes in getting kids involved in the outdoors.  We were fortunate enough to send the call making materials at a very low cost to these students.  Derby City not only helps students get their first turkey call, we introduce them into the “turkey hood”.

Congrats to all the students and Scott.  Those are some fine looking calls.

Muhlenberg County Students Visit Derby City at NWTF Convention

Derby City recently sent some call building supplies to students at Muhlenberg County High School.  Under the guidance of teacher Scott Cronin, these students have been busy building turkey calls since the beginning of February.  Mr. Cronin, his fiancee Morgan, and all of his students came by and spent some time at our booth on Friday, Feb. 19th.  Scott teaches a wildlife management class and always covers a unit on wild turkeys.  He wanted to have his students build turkey calls, but needed some supplies to get started.  Derby City was fortunate enough to be able to donate the materials to build these calls.  We appreciated Scott, Morgan , and all of the students for coming by our booth.  They are a great group of kids.  We look forward to helping them again in the future.