Who owns primos calls

Bushnell Outdoor Products has agreed to acquire Primos Hunting, a Mississippi company that specializes in game calls and other hunting gear. Overland Park-based Bushnell and private equity fund MidOcean Partners announced late Tuesday that the deal is on track to wrap up within 30 days.

Terms are not being disclosed. Bushnell, which MidOcean purchased in , offers sports optics, premium eyewear and outdoor accessories. Seeing his interest in learning all he could, she showed Will the mouth calls she had made by hand.

He went home and started making and perfecting his own calls out of tin beer cans. It seemed Primos mouth calls were getting a reputation and people wanted to their hands on them. Suddenly, I had a dealer in Pennsylvania.

Soon after, Will expanded the line. I would travel any time I had time off, go promote, go to shows, go give seminars. Shea Published Jun 7, PM. All of Primos game calls are produced in a factory in Brookhaven, Miss.

Anthony Foster plays the guitar. His desk is covered with turkey calls. Consider box calls alone: Brookhaven can pump out 2, to 3, of them a week. The flow of production is staggered, but it takes about three hours of machine time, hand-finishing, and tuning to turn two blocks of wood into the product that fits inside your turkey vest.

This is a place where high-throughput manufacturing intersects with human hands. He made his first turkey call when he was 11 years old, mimicking a scratch box his grandfather cooked up decades before. He studied computer-numerical-control CNC machining in school, and shortly thereafter the family business picked up commercial account—doing all of the cabinetry for large hotel chains throughout the south. A lifelong turkey hunter, Foster started turning out his own calls—a side-gig that went on to become so profitable that he made it his main business as White Feather Game Calls.

Foster made calls for all of the big manufacturers. Several call companies offered to buy White Feather, and one of them offered Foster a hell of a deal. He broke the news to Will Primos. I liked the sound of that. I wanted to just design and build calls. He was the first to put a thumbhole on a box call; same goes for the magnetic lid. And he was the first to rout a turkey call on a router, use a laser engraver, and a 3D printer. My job is to make it sound better, and easier to play.