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aunt betty wrote:I've got a cutdown D2 that is the barkiest most demanding hen you ever heard. I can only run it well for maybe ten minutes at a time tho. You really have to push it hard but dang it does what it takes.
Rick wrote:aunt betty wrote:I've got a cutdown D2 that is the barkiest most demanding hen you ever heard. I can only run it well for maybe ten minutes at a time tho. You really have to push it hard but dang it does what it takes.
I'm no cutdown wizard (and after three years of experimentation on game decided they weren't worth the trouble), but will suggest that you might want to try changing your air presentation and begin your notes gating air with the tip of your tongue against the roof of your mouth, as if saying "duck" or "dack," instead of "quack" or "wack" or whatever you normally do. Lets the air build enough pressure behind your tongue to enter the call more rapidly and get that fat reed moving without the strain of trying to push it as fast from the diaphragm.
Rick wrote:I'm a scrawny thing, which is why I learned to do it the easy way suggested above.
aunt betty wrote:Rick wrote:I'm a scrawny thing, which is why I learned to do it the easy way suggested above.
There ain't no easy way to blow the cutdown I own. The guy who did the cut is over 7' tall and makes a Canada goose look small. Maybe that has something to do with it. Not all cutdowns are alike. Not even close.
Here's Adam and an 8-gauge punt gun. Good ole Adam. That gun has to be over 8' long.
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This aint my first duck call. How I blow a call is hard to "splain". The front-middle of my tongue is where all the work gets done. Rammed up to the top of mouth, pulled back, and sort of plugs up the airway where I can give it a sudden burst that builds up pressure and velocity. Ever mouth is shaped different. If I use the tip of my tongue air goes right by the sides. No good that way. "Skinny tongue?". How else can you splain it?Rick wrote:aunt betty wrote:I've got a cutdown D2 that is the barkiest most demanding hen you ever heard. I can only run it well for maybe ten minutes at a time tho. You really have to push it hard but dang it does what it takes.
I'm no cutdown wizard (and after three years of experimentation on game decided they weren't worth the trouble), but will suggest that you might want to try changing your air presentation and begin your notes gating air with the tip of your tongue against the roof of...
Find Gary Perinar and ask him. He's in your area. He has a big box of reeds and most likely has exactly what you need or can get it. His shop is located at:SpinnerMan wrote:Where can I get the guts for an Olt goose call? I assume I can still find it. I got it around 1986. Had no clue what to actually do with it until around 2005. Hunted geese a little over a few years as a teenager when the resident geese first appeared and didn't know any goose hunters and there was no youtube, so we really missed out and could have killed a lot of geese if we knew what we were doing. Then I didn't hunt geese again until 2005. My primary teacher was all the geese using the retention pond across from my house. I really liked the Olt, better than the call I use now, but it started sticking every time. One cluck and that was it. Finally tried to "fix" it and I fixed it Then I bought the call I have.
I also have an Olt duck call from then, but could not find it when I started duck hunting again in 2005. I KNEW I still had it and it drove me nuts I couldn't find it. I looked through my stuff almost yearly because I knew that damn call was among it somewhere. Then about 3 or 4 years ago, I was moving some hunting stuff around and it rolled out I don't care for it that much though, but glad I found it for sentimental reasons.
Go hunt public on the Fox river and see just how crazy it is.SpinnerMan wrote:WOW. I'll find the call and then give him a call.
You ain't kidding that's in my area. 10 minutes from my house. I live about 1 mile from Lake Renwick near the border of Joliet and Plainfield. If you put Joliet, IL into Google maps. It will show the city boundary. It's worth doing to just see how crazy the boundaries are. It's worse than a gerrymandered Congressional district. I'm in the very northern most part of the "city." Probably 6 or 7 miles from the original town of Joliet. About 2 miles from the original town of Plainfield. It's all one jumbled mess up here.
aunt betty wrote:Go hunt public on the Fox river and see just how crazy it is.
aunt betty wrote:You got a campground on one side and a high school on the other just over the hill.
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