Blowing duck and goose calls

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Ok so my buddy got me a whole bunch of new duck and goose call for a gift and I'm having issues with them.

I am use to double reeds and have no problem with them or making a wide variety of calls.

Most of the ones he got me are single reed and they sound like a bad symphany rather than duck and goose calls.

The worst is the Zink "Power Maximus"

I have seen videos listened to tapes blah blah blah about blowing them is different and you have to groan into them, vibrate your lips, get the right back pressure etc..........

.........well I am running out of ways to try the calls.

I also want to be able to use a couple of them the next time we go out, so what can I do shot of swapping the reeds?
 
I might loose the camo ones in the tree though :mrgreen:

The snow goose one works well and I wouldn't loose it on the tree however I have only ever seen one snowgoose in Ontario in the last 4 yrs. :roll:
 
Two things you'll want to do when learning to blow a single reed duck call and short reed goose call is:

1-Have a buddy give your calls a run and make sure they're tuned properly.
2-Buy Shawn Stahl's Honker Talk and RNT's Right Stuff (the instruction tapes that come with low end calls suck).
 
Don't blow hard on the single reeds. This is a problem with alot of hunters that are first learning, frustration tends to make one blow hard. Single reeds are a loud Clear sound and are really ment for getting sound out to pass flying birds.

You need to use your Throat/Diaphram to opperate any duck or goose call it stead of blowing direct air into the call from your mouth. By grunting into the call you are forcing the guteral air through the call and allowing the viberations that you make opperate the reeds.

Some of these calls will need a little hand control at the exit end to turn the some into the proper form. Just to blow directly into the call will slop sound coming out. By using your fingers cover the end and shut off airflow after each Quack, this will breakup each quack and make the note more distictive.

You don't want to use these singles for incoming ducks as it is to hard to tone down the calls in volume. Its time at this point to change to a double reed that will create a lower raspy tone...BT
 
Well after alot more trials they are going on the x-mas tree :!:

I have a redneck tree with shotshell lights, casing ornaments etc. and the calls with go perfectly with them :mrgreen:

I'll stick with my other calls.

However this has got me thinking more about those $120 - $150 calls.

Maybe next year.
 
Send them my way and we'll see if we can figure them out for you........

My one goose hunting buddy bought some heavily marketed call from the US that comes with a video about how to use it, and while I have not seen the video, I can tell you that he wasted eighty bucks on a call that sounds like a mule with his balls caught on the page wire fence. :shock:

Doug
 
Well I just spent 50 bucks on a Taylor Talker and my $19.99 buck Gardner Double Nasty sounds better right now, but if someone can tell me how to blow the TT better I'd sure appreciate it.

One duck hunter told me to say "Heat" into it.
 
My youngest son is 6. He is with me all the time. He practiced with my Lohman's wooden goose call until we both got tired of it. This year he called numerous geese to our blind. He does a near perfect "comeback" call and I've watched flocks do the turn and fly over. We had no decoys. My friend Mark was present on two hunts where my son did this. If he can do it successfully, .....the call was 18bucks.

I have an "Original Wench" Primos duck call. It is the best one I own. It was a gift from a client but I think they are about 30bucks.

I haven't had any luck with Knight and Hale's.
 
Farmboy said:
Well after alot more trials they are going on the x-mas tree :!:

I have a redneck tree with shotshell lights, casing ornaments etc. and the calls with go perfectly with them :mrgreen:

I'll stick with my other calls.

However this has got me thinking more about those $120 - $150 calls.

Maybe next year.
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Be warned - that while big $ calls such as Foiles, Grounds, RNT, Echo, Saunders, Zink will sound awesome they still have a steep learning curve (more so with a shortreed). However, once you master a few basic sounds - clucks, doubleclucks, murmur, hailcall, & comeback you'll increase the number of birds you're turning and finishing. Also, collecting highend calls can quickly become addictive!
 
The ones that I use now are Big River goose (single reed flute) and duck and Suzy-Q II from Quaker Boy (both double reeds).

I have no problem with all the sounds from those ones, but it's getting the single reed ones to make even a cluck. :roll:

The one Knight and Hale goose call I had a while back was better suited to snow geese.

hmm
 
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