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Rick wrote:Last time I found myself jonesing for a call was in 1983, when a Callin' Pin Oak Susie inexplicably failed to make the move to Southwest Louisiana with my other calls, and I couldn't find another. Had to go through my second round of buying and trying prospects to find something, Robertson's Cutdown Reacher, I developed similar confidence in.
Much simpler, I hope, this time, as the LA Cut Singleton that had become EDC in a jeans pocket for truck and field use on the dog and my morning rounds is still made and (after repeatedly tearing the house and truck apart and retracing our last field route, twice) on order. But, dang, I miss having it with me and fooling with all the ducks it could produce in my otherwise cutdown unfriendly hands.
Going to be a serious disappointment if I can't tune the next one to fit my purpose for it as well. Not to mention if it turns out distant birds don't find it as nifty as I have.
Rick wrote:Don't lose 'em if, if you can't replace 'em.
That said, the only calls I find nearly as neat as the ones I've the developed the most faith in are the ones I think might manage something useful they can't - at least until proven otherwise...
Ricky Spanish wrote:I was jonesing hard for this one.
Stan the man pulled it out and I said mine all mine.
The next day I was shooting wood ducks.
So I'm using two Phil Robertson calls.
Damn I didn't expect that.
I've got a third one around here too.
The sarge? Is that a DC call?
Rick wrote:Ricky Spanish wrote:I was jonesing hard for this one.
Stan the man pulled it out and I said mine all mine.
The next day I was shooting wood ducks.
So I'm using two Phil Robertson calls.
Damn I didn't expect that.
I've got a third one around here too.
The sarge? Is that a DC call?
I had a wicked good Duck Commander wood duck call I'd tuned just a wee bit that I gave to a friend whose only duck hunting targets them. (After I found how well "sweeeets" through a much louder speck call can work.) Bought another DC woodie call sometime later, just to have one, and never could get it "right". Just another case of "not as good as the old ones..." Or, at least our memories of them.
Ricky Spanish wrote:Hey you want to try a delrin speck call from rainman?
Ill never actually need this kind of hammer.
Plus I sound bad on any speck call including the easy Grey one. It's just not my thing at all.
Rick wrote:Ricky Spanish wrote:Hey you want to try a delrin speck call from rainman?
Ill never actually need this kind of hammer.
Plus I sound bad on any speck call including the easy Grey one. It's just not my thing at all.
No thanks, I've tried most everything else out there without improving on what I have, and we're about out of specks, anyway.
But given the birds' current trend, you might find more use for it than you think. Bill, at Riceland, tells me he's sold a mess of his to Illinois hunters.
Ricky Spanish wrote:Now do the whistles.
Ricky Spanish wrote:One of these days I will call a duck and kill it I swear
Rick wrote:Ricky Spanish wrote:Now do the whistles.
Don't want reminded of how many duck, let alone dog, whistles I've auditioned.
Ricky Spanish wrote:I only had it for one season and I think it's floating somewhere along the shoreline in houseboat cove.
I switched calls mid hunt and basically left it on top of the blind then must have flipped it off into who knows where.
I'll get another one built and maybe I can cut my own toneboard.
That'd be sweet.
I lost my smallbore it's gone.
No crying emoji?
I'm jonesing for another one.
Rick wrote:Ricky Spanish wrote:I only had it for one season and I think it's floating somewhere along the shoreline in houseboat cove.
I switched calls mid hunt and basically left it on top of the blind then must have flipped it off into who knows where.
I'll get another one built and maybe I can cut my own toneboard.
That'd be sweet.
I lost my smallbore it's gone.
No crying emoji?
I'm jonesing for another one.
That's why God made lanyards, not that those can't be lost, too. No telling how many have been stolen from where they hung off the mirrors of unlocked trucks. Add bands, and you could lose the window out of a locked truck, as well.
Going to have to put the new Singleton on a string (to a belt loop when not around my neck) for everyday pocket carry when it gets here. Still driving me bughouse not to have it at hand.
Rick wrote:I don't keep bands, so theft of mine before they make it to some kid's lanyard is no worry. But it's a pisser that we couldn't keep one on the camp mounts any length of time. Always thought it would be fun to get some stamped "ASSHOLE".
Not that we could keep nice mounts long, either...
Ricky Spanish wrote:Had a season where half the honkers I shot were banded by the Illinois state biologist himself.
Anotherone wrote:The majority of my bands are from woodie hens banded near LSU’s campus, a 30 minute drive from Amite River swamp. I do have a couple woodie bands from Ohio.
Rick wrote:Make mine cream cheese and pineapple, instead of jalapeno. That, and be sure the bacon is either extremely thin sliced or partly pre-cooked in the microwave, so it will crisp on the grill while the duck's still pink in the middle.
Rick wrote:I'm screwing up duck to by grilling it long enough to crisp thick bacon or screwing up bacon by not cooking it crisp, thank you.
Ricky Spanish wrote:These look a bit rare...
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