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1981 was the start of a new beginning in the turkey call industry. The idea of building slate and glass calls with wooden pots went from one man's dream to reality. Bill Zearing realized that like a good violin or guitar, a quality turkey call should be made of wood, not from plastics or other synthetic material.

The Cody name comes from Bill and Debbie Zearing's son, Travis "Cody" Zearing. Travis is an active member of the Cody team, from production to promotion.

 
Travis Cody Zearing
Bill created the methods and designed the machines that would create the only true laminated wood pot calls in the industry. Bill perfected this two-month, twenty-five step process over the years, until it became a science. The World Class and SPEC I pots have the grain of the wood running circular around the call. This process created the Cody World Class, the granddaddy of all wood pot calls. These calls dominated world competition in the 1980s and early 90s, turning world class callers into world champions.
Bill Zearing
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The same technology perfected in the Cody World Class call can be found in the Cody II, a walnut one piece pot in glass or slate.

In the late eighties, Bill started building a call based on the Cody World Class pot and employing a wooden sounding board. This never-before-seen technique created the Cody SPEC I. After several years of testing, the SPEC I emerged as the toughest Cody call to build...but it was worth it. In 1993, the Cody SPEC I was ready for production. The first calls were slate only, and the glass version appeared a few years later.
Debbie Zearing and her turkey

While Cody is most famous for our friction calls and strikers, we sell many items to enrich any turkey hunter's arsenal: instructional DVD, mouth calls, striker savers, call holders and more. For a complete list of Cody merchandise, contact us.

We at Cody Turkey Calls, LLC would like to thank all of our friends, family and customers for their support in the past 25 years of business. We pledge to work hard on quality for years to come.

Thanks again,

Bill, Debbie, Shannon and Travis "Cody" Zearing

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