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Any suggestions for a good mouth call for BEGINNER

Old 05-21-2007, 01:50 PM
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Default Any suggestions for a good mouth call for BEGINNER

I've always called with a slate call and SOMETIMES a box call, but after this year of very close encounters i really could have used a mouth call. Ive bought them before and never had any luck. Are there any good mouth calls that are easier to use than others? I just cant seem to learn to do it. Thanks for the help.
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Old 05-21-2007, 03:14 PM
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For a beginner, there really is no such thing as a "plug and play" mouth call. They're all difficult to master.

A diaphragm call is essentially a musical instrument, and it does require some level of expertise to make it sing to the limits of its capability.

It takes literally hundreds of hours of practice before you're able to crank out perfect purrs, clucks, cutts and gobbles, but it can be done. It just takes time.

The first thing to do is find a call that has the right fit to your mouth - everyone's mouth is shaped different, and there will be calls that just don't feel right. If I had $1 for every mouthcall I've taken out of the package, put in my mouth, and thrown directly in the trash, I'd be a rich guy.

I prefer the softer taped calls (MAD) - and I have to trim about 1/16"-1/8" off of the edges to get a good fit.

MAD makes two calls that I love - one is called the Metcalf Cutter, and the other is called the Shippwreck (they also sell a Shippwreck 2).I like the colored tape ones, not the white plastic models. They gag me and get too slippery, causing me to accidentally suck them into my throat and darn near die of asphyxiation.

Just pick up a few mouth calls and learn the yelp first. See which call feels and sounds the best, then go from there. Expand your repertoire to add the cluck. Then, learn a cutting, clucking, yelping series. Then go for the purr. Then the fighting purr. If you practice long enough, you can even develop a pretty decent gobble.

I learned mouth calling by leaving a pack of calls in the console of my car. Anytime I'm driving anywhere, I pop one in and start purring and clucking and cutting along with the radio.You've really gotta wonder how many times in the course of human events thatEminem or the *****catDolls' tuneshave been clucked outon a Metcalf Cutter?
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Old 05-21-2007, 04:22 PM
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My son is 10 and he learned fastest w/ the primos sonic dome placement is simple as dome almost puts call in right place
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Old 05-21-2007, 04:32 PM
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I learned on a Quaker Boy called: Beginner's doubler
Also took my first bird with a mouth call with that one. Very simple, two reeds, good one to learn with.
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Old 05-21-2007, 05:13 PM
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My son is 10 and he learned fastest w/ the primos sonic dome placement is simple as dome almost puts call in right place
x2 easiest I've found yet
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Old 05-21-2007, 06:49 PM
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Sounds good. I bought some "triple bat cut" Primos motuh call a few weeks ago and noticed they had a Sonic Dome. I shoulda bought it.Thank God mouth calls arent real expensive. Thanks for the help guys.
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Old 05-23-2007, 07:30 AM
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single or double reed calls are the most user friendly.

I learned on a Quaker boy Old Boss Hen. That and the raspy old hen are still two of my favorites. Just play with it a lot. You'll get it.
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Old 05-24-2007, 09:17 PM
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Knight and Hale or Quaker Boy mouth calls seem the easiest to me. I myself like the thicker reeds. They seem easier to control...
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