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RNT hunter... middle of the road on price and sounds great and best of all its a single reed..

i love my dr85, bout time to get a new one, though i hate the smell of a new out of the box dr85. my next to favorite call would be a (dont hate on me) the 'original' wench by primos. ive heard alot of people hate this call but after its about wore out it works like a charm to me. I always reach for the dr85 though.

'Red-legs' Haydel is a DR-85 wif trainin' wheels.

If I can't take it apart and tinker with it, file it, pull this a little, push that a little, put another barrel on it, take a butane lighter to it........and not be out more than $15 if I made a slight misjudgement of how much material I shaved-off this or that.........I got no use for it, cause I'm dangerous with a belt-sander.

Bought a D-2 keyhole and went to filing on the tone board, several years back. I filed, put it back together, tuned, blew it - filed some more, retuned 15 times, blew it - filed some more.......this went-on for like 30 minutes until I quickly became bored with the project.

So, I got my belt sander out and hit it a lick or two. "OOPS" .......got on the phone to Wing Supply and ordered 2 more....... I still mess with calls - I just don't use a belt sander any more.

I've got a DRS-88 and a DR-85 I've used for well-over 20 years. I only replace cracked parts when they won't hold-together anymore, the I'm still on the same set of reeds, wedges and tone boards.

dr-85 and redleg sound the best for me, the quackhead quackstacker sticks on me everytime i first use it but it has a good sound.

everette crofford wrote:i love my dr85, bout time to get a new one, though i hate the smell of a new out of the box dr85. my next to favorite call would be a (dont hate on me) the 'original' wench by primos. ive heard alot of people hate this call but after its about wore out it works like a charm to me. I always reach for the dr85 though.

PRIMOS!!!! Primos duck calls sound like they have something loose in them rattling around when you blow them. Everyone of them sound like that. No hating on you, just the duck calls

Anatidae wrote: I've got a DRS-88 and a DR-85 I've used for well-over 20 years. I only replace cracked parts when they won't hold-together anymore, the I'm still on the same set of reeds, wedges and tone boards.

"You don't sound half-bad considering the calls you use." Quote of the season so far ...

Yeah, I didn't really know quite how to take that comment.......

.........that's kinda like the trumpet student that went-in for his first lesson and the instructor cut him off in the middle of a passage, said, "Here, play it like this."

The kid replied, "Gosh, I didn't know you could make that kind of a sound with a trumpet, Sir."