duck calling

[rciii]

1dead,
I gotta take issue with the notion that buying the best custom call will make him a better caller. Just because I buy a strat. doesn't mean I can make it perform to its full capability, and just because i pick up a les paul and play thru a marshall stack won't make me a good guitar player. I'll make a lot of noise but it will sound like s*!t until I learn the basics and how to do it right.
You're right on the money about the rest, practice, paitence and persistence. my .02

[Greenhead22]

GREENHEAD WROTE THAT HE HAS HEARD A 5 YR OLD DO A GOOD QUACK ON A CALL, IN MY OPINION A GOOD SOUNDING CALL IS A GOOD SOUNDING CALL, DR OR SR. IF YOU MAKE IT SOUND GOOD, ISN'T THAT ALL THAT MATTERS?

A double reed already has the "duck" built into it, all you have to do is just blow air through the call, unlike a single reed that requires you to know what you are doing.

[woollybooger]

I AGREE WITH YOU ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE, I WAS JUST SAYING IF IT GETS THE JOB DONE, AND IS A LITTLE EASIER, WHY NOT USE IT?

[Greenhead22]

I got the job done with haydel's for over 8 years, but I then forced myself to start blowing single reed calls so I could expand my calling ability.

[woollybooger]

UNDERSTOOD, I HAVE ONLY USED DR AND I HAVE BEEN HUNTING FOR ABOUT 12 YEARS, WHAT SR WOULD YOU RECOMMEND?

[Greenhead22]

Echo Timber or Zink Power Hen, both single reeds. I used to blow wood calls, but I got tired of them locking up all the time so I've switched to acrylics, which I prefer now anyway.

[1deadduck]

rciii-
Good point- I just remember when I was struggling with my limited calling ability, it seemed the only way I could progress was to buy better and better calls to accomplish each step I was trying to obtain. By the time I was an "accomplished" caller I had accumulated 8 different calls. I think it would have been a shorter learning experience and definitely a cheaper one if I had started with the call I use now--a Grover Knoll single reed custom. He makes a trully exceptional acrylic call, family heirloom type.

[GulfCoast]

I wonder if you put a Grover Knoll "duckall" and an Alvin Taylor "Taylor Made" call on the same lanyard, if they would get in a brawl?

[1deadduck]

Grover would kick his "Taylor Made" booty$ !

[GulfCoast]

Yeah, only after Fruitjuice taught him how to fight (and make calls!)

[Dogzeye]

I hate seenin people blast away at ducks comin at em close. I like to call em on the corners when there goin away about to make a turn then hit em with a little feed call when they're hoverin over the top. I think if ducks want to set down bad enough on a hole alot of callin isn't needed.

He's right if the ducks want in bad enough, there is no amount of calling that will keep them out !!

[wandy]

i was huntin last weekend and i could break some off a big group and get um in and every time i was gonna shoot um on the next pass they would fly off... they didnt flare they jut flew off... what do i need to do to finish um???

[champcaller]

just work em in with a feed like a dutdutdut dut dut dutdutdut

[LawDawg]

a lot of times when mallards are making there final pass, we will just shut up and they will come in. the most we do is a lazy hen and a few feed chuckles. That seems to work best for me. Hope that helps

[Tedl10]

Real soft feeding calls works for me.. nothing too loud