If You Can't Call, SHUT UP!

The Cold Lake Kid

The Cold Lake Kid

CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Super GunNutz
Rating - 100%
57   0   0
Location
Ottawa
Went goose hunting with Clearcut on Friday. He had a "Great Spot"
Had the swamp to himself. Flocks came in at dusk to raft for the night.
He took four after work on Wednesday.
So off we go Friday night, canoe on top of the car.
We get there, three cars there already.
Well, OK, it's a big swamp.
Over into the weed bed well away from them, on the far side of the swamp.
Some yahoo decides to start practicing his goose calling technique.
Problem right there.
He seemed to think a goose sounded like a Howler Monkey. You know, the ones that give the OOO OOOO AAAHHH AAAHHH EEEEE EEEEE calls you hear on the sound track as the hero is trekking through the jungles of where ever.
Clearcut and a couple of others gave some good calls to give him something to try for, but yahoo doesn't change a tone.
Dusk arrives, with about 20 minutes of legal shooting left, and along comes a nice flock. A few good calls a heard, the flock looks interested in taking up residence for the night. They circle above the tree line, just on the verge of being in range, and continuing to let down, when yahoo decides to try his Howler Monkey routine again.
Head goose thinks, "This is NOT a good place to be" and rapidly gains altitude.
So much for that flock.
Yahoo, if you're out there, a little hint:
Your buddies know how to call, so please, SHUT UP!
And practice at home or during the day when nothing else is around.
Rant over.
 
LOL - walk over and say "excuse me, you must be new. You probably meant to buy a goose call. You actually picked up an irate frustrated experienced hunter call. They're very similar. May i suggest you put it away till you get the right one? I'm in the rutt at the moment and i'm having a hard time resisting it. "
 
Foxer said:
LOL - walk over and say "excuse me, you must be new. You probably meant to buy a goose call. You actually picked up an irate frustrated experienced hunter call. They're very similar. May i suggest you put it away till you get the right one? I'm in the rutt at the moment and i'm having a hard time resisting it. "
Click to expand...

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: ,good one Foxer :lol: :lol:
Huntsman :lol:
 
Foxer said:
LOL - walk over and say "excuse me, you must be new. You probably meant to buy a goose call. You actually picked up an irate frustrated experienced hunter call. They're very similar. May i suggest you put it away till you get the right one? I'm in the rutt at the moment and i'm having a hard time resisting it. "
Click to expand...

Oooo, subtle...
:shock:
Great post :D :D :D
 
you know its even worse when its a moose hunter with a plastic wayne carlton duck getting molested call in his hands over a lightly snowed on swamp @ 7am trying to call in a moose.....but its more fun to answer the guy and make him think he has done it :lol: :lol:
 
bone-collector said:
you know its even worse when its a moose hunter with a plastic wayne carlton duck getting molested call in his hands over a lightly snowed on swamp @ 7am trying to call in a moose.....but its more fun to answer the guy and make him think he has done it :lol: :lol:
Click to expand...

Been there, done that, called the dumb F**K right out in the open. :lol:
 
At 500 yds, anything can sound like a cow call. It's when the bull is within 100yds that your "caller" better know what he's doing........

Most of the time, it's best to shut up.
 
Why not just ask to borrow his call and have a quick game of hand tossed skeet !!!!!! just tell him it was so good that you just had to blow it away !!!!!!
 
Yes John it was a 1/2 hour of entertainment on our part :lol: , its amazing how gulable some people are (thank god for good cammo and the ability to stop laffing for 2 minutes to answer them back :lol: )



HS I disagree at 500 yards not anything sounds like a cow call , there is a fine line between a cow and bull call IMHO, and just grunting to say they can do it is hilarious at times (in the peak of the rutt a guy can get away with just about anything in the right area but pre rutt or post rutt after the bulls are sore and battered its another story calling 1 in)

anyhow regardless we all agree if you cant call SHUT UP :lol:
 
The worst sounding cow moose call I ever heard turned out to be coming from a cow moose...... :shock:


My first thought when I hear the call was "Who the hell is this guy, and I'd ask for my money back on that call"
 
man you guys are harsh. the only way to learn is to use the calls while your hunting. If nothing flies, walks or even crawls by then you should keep praticing.
this go home and pratice stuff, is BS. Only way to know if it works is to do it while hunting. If your hunting a large marsh and someone else is, too bad, everyone has the right to learn. Live with it, or you can just quit. But there is no need to tell someone else to pack it in cause he can't use a call. If it bothered you that much, introduce your self and become a teacher.
I've had many hunts ruined by others learning, but looking back at when i learned, i'm sure i ruined it for others. But then again, i had people who were willing to teach me.
 
Hussar - you make a good point but really, in the feild is where you fine tune. Not the best place to start practicing.

if you don't know what a moose sounds like - get a tape, listen to it. When you sound SOMETHING like that - go into the woods :)

Or as you say - get someone to teach you. You can at least get the basics down.

By the time you get into the woods, you should be able to at least approximate an animal's sound. Here's a hint - if you call, and you hear some elderly britsh fellow scream back "oh my god, the germans are bombing us - get the women to the shelters!" you probably should have practiced more at home :)
 
I have to say that screwing up a nice set up, with game coming in, is not the way to make yourself popular in any hunting party, or to any one else around you.
In my particular case, this was the only flock I came close to having a try at.
And yahoo and his Howler Monkey call warned off the flock. (PETA perhaps?) :roll:
While practicing in the marsh to PERFECT your calling ability is unquestionably OK, sounding off with a call when you have no idea what the animal is supposed to sound like is not something I or any of my hunting partners do, would do or even allow in our group.
My opinion. With it and $1.95, you can get a great coffee at Tim horton's. :wink:
 
well I am sorry but I agree wih the kid, learn it then tune it dont make my hunt your testing grounds, regardless I wont yell or swear at you but will waste your entire day by calling you back and getting your hopes up just to walk up to you at the end of the day laffing at you saying"pretty good EH!"

but then this brings into the factor of learning , YES its ok to learn but do you call it fair to the other hunters.....I think its prety petty if you drive into a swamp or marsh and see a couple other autos or quads parked and the guys are in there before you and you still get out and go in there :wink:
realy how many geese are in 1 slew or moose in 1 swamp at a time ? , so in the end of it all HARSH ? NO respectfull :wink:
 
Hogwash!!!!!!! Learn how to call at home with recordings etc. Then go to a park where there are birds and listen to them and practice. Then very slowly start out in a real hunting situation.



Hussar_ca said:
man you guys are harsh. the only way to learn is to use the calls while your hunting. If nothing flies, walks or even crawls by then you should keep praticing.
this go home and pratice stuff, is BS. Only way to know if it works is to do it while hunting. If your hunting a large marsh and someone else is, too bad, everyone has the right to learn. Live with it, or you can just quit. But there is no need to tell someone else to pack it in cause he can't use a call. If it bothered you that much, introduce your self and become a teacher.
I've had many hunts ruined by others learning, but looking back at when i learned, i'm sure i ruined it for others. But then again, i had people who were willing to teach me.
Click to expand...
 
Foxer said:
LOL - walk over and say "excuse me, you must be new. You probably meant to buy a goose call. You actually picked up an irate frustrated experienced hunter call. They're very similar. May i suggest you put it away till you get the right one? I'm in the rutt at the moment and i'm having a hard time resisting it. "
Click to expand...
Ummm, what if he was hunting 'Irate experienced hunters' in rut?
 
Hussar_ca said:
man you guys are harsh. the only way to learn is to use the calls while your hunting. If nothing flies, walks or even crawls by then you should keep praticing.
this go home and pratice stuff, is BS. Only way to know if it works is to do it while hunting. If your hunting a large marsh and someone else is, too bad, everyone has the right to learn. Live with it, or you can just quit. But there is no need to tell someone else to pack it in cause he can't use a call. If it bothered you that much, introduce your self and become a teacher.
I've had many hunts ruined by others learning, but looking back at when i learned, i'm sure i ruined it for others. But then again, i had people who were willing to teach me.
Click to expand...

Do you also suggest that people learn to shoot while out hunting? I hope not. Learn and practice (calling, shooting, etc) at home before going afield. There is more then enough quality DVDs (Stahl, Zink, Grounds, Smith, RNT, BGB, Foiles, etc) which teach all aspects of meat calling. I spent half a year learning to call on a shortreed before EVER taking it to the field.
 
You know sometimes silence can be golden. Just the visual presentation can be enough to pull the birds in. If there are dumb asses doing retarded things with thier calls, sometimes the birds will go to the birds that are being more discreet.
Bad calling can kill a hunt pretty fast though. learn at home, practice in the off season with real birds to see how they react to your calling, don't learn in the swamp, and screw yourself and every other guy up in the process.

813
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom