good choice on the zink sr-1. if you bought an acrylic call it will take a little more time to get used to it but you can sound way better on it than a wood. but a wood call is easy to blow and will give you all the sounds you need to kill birds and win competitions. when i first started out on a short reed goose call i learned how to do two things first, a greeting call and clucks. a greeting call you just basically say "hoo-wit"into the call. then a cluck is just "wit". from here on out you'll pick up the other calls you need as you master the greetings and clucks. good luck and kill some geese with that zink!