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Olly wrote: We're still the bastard pirates of the duck forum world.
ya rebels got my ccc throwback and I'm waiting on some rm golddiggers and another mondo and can't forget about this little guy[attachment=-1]uploadfromtaptalk1395276464238.jpg[/attachment]Rick wrote:Well, I guess it's a start.
i think I've got a decent collection started and I'm eye balling Kellys micarta cut down tooThe Duck Hammer wrote:Very nice. Gadus's call is awesome.
it doesn't take much air but I havnt blown it much but will tomorrow. has a more mellow tone to it but still has that boss hen rasp like a cutdown should.gonna be killa on them calmer days.imma try and make a video tomorrow with it and the bm br cut.my vox takes the most out of all of em.it seems even more than yours didrebelp74 wrote:How does Kelly's run?
hudson wrote:it doesn't take much air but I havnt blown it much but will tomorrow. has a more mellow tone to it but still has that boss hen rasp like a cutdown should.gonna be killa on them calmer days.imma try and make a video tomorrow with it and the bm br cut.my vox takes the most out of all of em.it seems even more than yours didrebelp74 wrote:How does Kelly's run?
Olly wrote: We're still the bastard pirates of the duck forum world.
Olly wrote: We're still the bastard pirates of the duck forum world.
The Duck Hammer wrote:Of the three I got only one has been filed on and it takes different air pressure. Was wondering if that was the case with yours.
rebelp74 wrote:The Duck Hammer wrote:Of the three I got only one has been filed on and it takes different air pressure. Was wondering if that was the case with yours.
Didn't Tyler Rogers cut yours?
Olly wrote: We're still the bastard pirates of the duck forum world.
No bryce said it was like new never hunted only blew in shop.tryed to get the other one on ebay but they out bid me.its up to 155 last I looked.i got lucky with this one and still want at least one moreThe Duck Hammer wrote:Of the three I got only one has been filed on and it takes different air pressure. Was wondering if that was the case with yours.
hudson wrote:Won't have to worry bout it gettin cold cuz that thing was gettin pretty warm when I was blown it
Olly wrote: We're still the bastard pirates of the duck forum world.
huh just got a offer on another vox with box and extra mouth piece in mint condition for 120.guess I'm buying another hahaThe Duck Hammer wrote:hudson wrote:Won't have to worry bout it gettin cold cuz that thing was gettin pretty warm when I was blown it
Yep its pretty cool. Amazing how fast they conduct heat and hold it.
if it's from a green one from a dude named Travis, do it he's good people.hudson wrote:huh just got a offer on another vox with box and extra mouth piece in mint condition for 120.guess I'm buying another hahaThe Duck Hammer wrote:hudson wrote:Won't have to worry bout it gettin cold cuz that thing was gettin pretty warm when I was blown it
Yep its pretty cool. Amazing how fast they conduct heat and hold it.
hudson wrote:...has that boss hen rasp...
Rick wrote:hudson wrote:...has that boss hen rasp...
Thread-jacking being the oldest of traditions here on WFF, I'm going to do just that and ask if anyone really knows that the deep, coarse rasp/rattle most consider "an old boss hen" sound is, in fact, that? Or are the coarsest calls we hear from ducks not the result of too many Marlboros and too much whiskey for too many years but young birds still getting their voices together, and the higher, cleaner tones often called "young hen" really that of older birds?
Can anyone make a case one way or the other? I can, but it's somewhat tenuous.
aunt betty wrote:I've sat and watched the reverse of what you guys described.
Rick wrote:aunt betty wrote:I've sat and watched the reverse of what you guys described.
Not "you guys". I lived for several years with a marsh across the dead end parish road in front of my place and a rice field abutting my back yard, and still spend a whoooole lot of time out among 'em, just watching and listening and only noticed a similar phenomenon once. Was deer hunting in the marsh late one afternoon when one mottled duck ("Summer mallard") hen started a long single quack series, then others around the marsh picked up the beat and joined her for a good long time. Eventually, they went quiet and started peeling out to the rice to feed, and I thought for a little while I might have translated something. But that was probably fifteen years and thousands and thousands of ducks watched pulling out of their own volition without repeating that or anything I've felt a common "lets go" signal prior to flight. (Not uncommon to hear "alarm" calls once they're airborne, despite no discernible source of alarm and even when they're just going a short distance.)
Maybe I only think I pay attention, but the closest thing I've heard to "boss" sounds is loud, sharp, short "feeds" that are plainly telling another duck or ducks to back off.
Rick wrote:Woods, rice, marsh, they holler like that everywhere, sometimes to anything and everything that flies by, sometimes under barren skies. Think it just sounds extra coarse in the woods because of the acoustics.
But here's what's set me to questioning common perception. I spend A LOT of time just watching and listening to waterfowl with particular focus on specks when they're here, but I long assumed the deep down in a barrel, rattling yelps of some were old birds and the clean, high pitched yelps of others were young ones. I now know for fact, however, that bare chested, probably first year specks do a lot of the gravely squawking I associated with old, perhaps "boss" birds and find myself wondering if they just haven't gotten their yelp refined yet, and if that isn't also the case with clanky sounding ducks?
Rick wrote:I've long had better success with crisp, clean relatively high stuff than what most consider "boss hen" tones, whether I'm making them or a hunting partner. Might only be confidence born of coincidence bolstered by seeing what I expect to through the filter of that bias, dunno. Do know I really, really wanted a cutdown's "bark" to be a valuable tool, if not a silver bullet, for breaking birds that managed to resist my current charms, but I couldn't make that the case. Bought and practiced with three types, carried what I felt the best for three years, experimenting with it extensively pre and post season, as well as between splits, and pulled it off the string at duck's close this year. I'm done with that, unless somebody shows me something I've yet to see out of one.
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