I am trying my best fellas but for some reason me and this call are not agreeing with eachother. Any tips on how to purr on a mouth call. I have tried everything from doubles to 4 reeded calls and just can't get it to sound right. I would love the help!

I make the air break vibrate in my throat Kinda like you are doing a dog growl but with out the noise. If you growl deep in yout throat your larnyx will vibrate. Then do the same thing with out making the noise. ALmost like you are gargling

Do you remember when you were a kid, ever making "motor boat" sounds by blowing through relaxed - but closed - lips, letting them vibrate? Try the same sort of thing but letting your tongue vibrate against the roof of your mouth. Now place the call a little farther back in your mouth and try it again. That's about the best I can describe what I do to purr. I walked around trying to purr constantly for an entire day before I got it right. When it finally happenned, it was a "V-8" moment and its been one of the easiest calls ever since.

Its easyer to Purr with Slip reed calls, a V cut or The QuakerBoys Split V is another...BT

I just roll my tounge right behind my teeth while the call is in my mouth. I hunt with a lot of people that have had trouble with it. My dad cant purr for anything. For some reason it just came natural for me.

For the longest time, I couldn't purr. I usually use a stacked frame call (Primos True Double). I found a single reed single frame call was far easier to work with. Initially, I couldn't use a tongue flutter, had to flutter my lips to get a semblance of a purr. I used the lip flutter for a while. It works okay, but I was not able to purr consistently with it.

My tongue flutter technique came about only as the result of hours and hours of unsuccessful effort, where I would flutter my tongue without a call in my mouth and then try it with a call. (I'm not kidding about the hours and hours, either. Probably spent 50 hours over three months on this phase.) I first had success with a Ghost Lite, but I didn't much care for the pitch. I kept at it, though, until I could purr with most any single frame single reed, then started shopping/searching for a mouth diaphragm that purred at the pitch I liked.

Now I mostly purr off MADD's high frequency calls, 'cause they make the higher pitched sound I like and think sounds like that contented hen.

So, in summary, I'd say flutter your tongue against the roof of your mouth and get a feel for that, then pop in a call and try. Go back to fluttering without a call in your mouth, concentrate on how that feels/what you do, then pop the call in and try again, etc. Be prepared for a long learning process, since you must be like me, and not a "natural" like jepcho. Good luck!!

Wholelotta,I've said this before but being able to purr on a mouth call came very easy to me.I tongue flutter and teach those that call with me to do the same.Not to offend anyone here but the most realistic sounding purrs especially when it comes to hard aggressive purring to my ears comes from tongue fluttering imho.I'm definately in agreement with BT here a V-cut type call or a split reed give great tones here. The best way I can explain to do it is place your tongue in the position in your mouth like your about to say the letter T.Hold it there and loosen it up bit,now force air through,going over the tip of your tongue.As long as you loosen your tongue up and the air is flowing over the tip of your tongue it should flutter against the roof of your mouth and your top two front teeth.Thats basically it,without a call in youir mouth.Put a call in and go for it.Just like any call you make on a air driven mouth call,air pressure will make a difference in the sound and its imperative that no air escapes to the sides but flows cleanly over the tip of your tongue.With practice it will come and you will be able to regulate the amount of air flow going over your tongue which enable you to produce those soft sweet seductive purrs to those hard aggressive type purrs which in many cases have worked wonders for me on early season flocked up birds!Hope it helps Bob....