Looking at buying my first Canada goose call. What do you guys recommend? I'm a newbie so need something easy to use
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Looking at buying my first Canada goose call. What do you guys recommend? I'm a newbie so need something easy to use
Zink power clucker..
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Zink power clicker x2 I have one and its a nice easy call to use. Comes with a dvd as well
Cant get much easier than a goose flute. Not sure what brand name mine is though but they are fairly inexpensive and very easy to use and they definitely fool geese.Quote:
Originally Posted by missy83
+1 on the Power Clucker.
I bought one a few weeks ago on sale at Cabelas, and it sounds really good.
Yours came with a dvd? I feel robbed.. a nother decent and easy to use call is theQuote:
Originally Posted by uglyfish
Knight and hale pit boss..
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Mine sure didn'tQuote:
Originally Posted by topher
I can't call worth a damn, so when out try to keep my calling to a minimum. Basically a few cliucks and honks when some are in the area. Then chill hope the dekes work. Have a zink power clucker and flute. Find the flute a little easier, thus get better tones/notes more consistently.
either way I wouldn't spend much money. Far better off to listen to the hundreds of you tube vids, and try to mimic at home with almost anything.
Another decent cheap call $30ish is the goozilla I believe it's called. Field hudnall has a series of videos on YouTube that I found very useful. From proper hand positioning to making the sounds.
"Mattering the Goose Call"
this kid has a very basic technique that's fairly easy for beginners.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1EuGaYmvlXM
Persinaly id stay away from that call i know 4 ppl that have it.. and not one person can make it sound... including me..Quote:
Originally Posted by Mfisch2003
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If money is no object, get a Sean Mann. If I ever lost mine, I don't think I'd hesitate for a second to grab another.... despite the price.
As for making a call sound good / work well.... it's probably 90% practice. The number of times I've been driving down the highway and blowing my calls is a lot. Spend the time and I'm sure any call will sound good.
Nimkii game calls. He's local and builds awesome custom calls. Reasonably priced and you won't have to upgrade when you get sick of the crappy poly carb call you buy to start on.
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i have quite the opposite experience. i find this call really easy to blow. its not a great call, sounds a bit flat with no rasp and hard to vary your tones, but is easy to blow and sounds like a goose.Quote:
Originally Posted by topher
Short reeds take practice. Once you get them down, no other design comes close.Quote:
Originally Posted by topher
I'm running a cocobola GK Canuck and an acrylic GK Solution at the moment. Like both!
-Nick
X2 here... Read some great reviews about but I'm not happy with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by topher
Also have a Tim Grounds Poly Carb, decent but not worth the price I think. Of the lower priced calls I really like Buck Gardner's Canada Hammer, raspy and responsive. Although not as versatile, I find myself falling back to my old standby, the Big River Goose Flute.
Canada Hammer II is what i use, sounds pretty good for a 30$ call ide say!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lakon
Loud and easy to blow
I learned on a goozilla, works good for me, just took lots of practice, as with any.... Now I have a Samuel Game calls acrylic, sounds much more "goosey" but the old goozilla is still on the lanynard and still gets used occasionally..
buy a lower end call from a company that only makes calls. ie Zink, GK, Grounds, Capital etc. their reputation is on the line with every call they make
Buck Gardner "Canada Hammer" was my first goose call. I found it very easy to blow, and brought tons of Geese in using it. It also came with a DVD. I believe at the time it came with a duck call as well. The duck call was crap, sounded like a kazoo, but the Canada Hammer is a good call, and anyone that is trying to learn, I recommend it.
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Zink Power Clucker
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If moneys not a big issue, then i would look at getting a higher end Acrylic call or at the minimum a call that can be "hand-tuned" to the callers liking. Lots of the cheaper calls have a reed/gut system that isn't versatile (ie reed position can't be changed). Shaving the reed or moving the reed to different spots on the tone board can make all the difference in the world. Some of the higher end calls have lifetime warranties as well
Whatever call you decide to get, I would get a short reed and not a flute. I have used both types both in the field and in competition and the short reed is by far the better sounding call in my view. So start with a short reed and save yourself the trouble of learning on a flute and then having to learn again when you switch to a short reed.
Dont get the lynman gold from canadian tire.... a kazzooo is a better call
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An Original OLT call
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just curious, what is your take on the Olt?Quote:
Originally Posted by Monks
I have two of them both are made out of walnut, one is a model 77 I believe , the other ??? I cherish them both, love the goose sounds I cam make with them and although I have about 6 others, those two are the ones that I use, one has a deeper tone than the other.Quote:
Originally Posted by bardern
Both are very easy to blow and i don't have lung burn out when doing a long series of calls.
You can pay up to $150 for some of the more popular big name brand goose calls- But I still use an old Olt call that belonged to my father- we paid $15 for it some 30 plus years ago and it has lead to the demise of many geese. You can still buy them on Ebay for under $50. Same with duck calls you can buy an Echo call for $40 US and it will fool just as many mallards as the call that cost $150. But sometimes people think because something costs more it is automatically better. Good luck!
I haven't used one in years but I guess that there still some out there being used. I have a number of original Grounds Guides Best when Tim was starting to convert them over and OLT put an end to it. Cool deal but I don't think I will give up a modern short reed for the OLT lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaycee