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With the season now approaching faster then ever and with plenty of ducks about, considering getting a new caller. been using a couple of old school shakers the last few years but thinking about buying a Hammond RIP caller read good things about them on here and other pub. Mainly shoot couple big dams/ponds and river but not big open water.
Happy to look a second hand callers to save money
be like me son -have about 7 or 8 ok thats one lanyard full.goose onother 2-3 manual plus a fullstereophonic elctronci lanyard as well -Quote:
Originally Posted by bigbear
Cmon rozzers if youre gonna confiscate me itll cost ya 99.9% of ya pooolllice budget on my payout alone -thats before i charge ya big jessies for ma camo gstrings-all 12 of em
Ya cannae gobeararsed in yur rubber waders skid marks on the inside raise suspicions when your wife or mate wantas to trey em on i tell ya!
Hey mate you won't be dissapointed with the hammond, they sound very realistic. Be sure to give it a light coat of linseed oil every now an again to look after the wood.
can I have that a fuckin gain in English??Quote:
Originally Posted by kotuku
hammonds a great call
the hammond is a good call....one of my main 3.... a old olt66 and a brown sugar fill the list.
Yep I’ve got three hammonds
Another kiwi call is the Cupped Wings (CW) Callers. Don't have one (yet) personally but they come recommended.
ya shouldnt need it repeated but id suggest an EYE TEST -ya must be bloody blind yave seen em around my neck quite often.anyhow wondered when youd pop up.Quote:
Originally Posted by gsp follower
cupped wing calls make a sweet call called (the mutt) i have one and absolutely love it perfect sound everytime.
like the olt66,but i have an assortment most of which iwas gifted .Itend to use theone ithink is best suited to a situation .my calling aint that shit hot anyhow so often i let mates do the main calling and ill chime in on the chorus.Ive got a mate whose a bit of a woodturner -might have a wee chat with him -a good winter project would be a custom call.
+1 on the Cupped Wing calls, picked up 'The Mutt' off the maker a couple of years ago at the Sika show. It's stayed on the lanyard so that says something.
Does Hammond still make the presentation grade calls? Always been keen on one of those. (Sorry for hijack)
Yes. I think you have to buy them from him directly. Maybe shooters world in gore will have them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Got-ya
I bought a "Wily Mallard" call today. Had a go with it when i got home, sounds sorta weird
how do you tell the difference between callers with hammond when they don't have a name on the side? different mallard callers
who needs a name??? find one that YOU like and go down to the local duckpond with a loaf of bread and start talking to the old biddies,they will soon tell you when you get it right and they will shut up when you dont....quiet is good... very very quiet is even better,the 3 callers I mentioned will all whisper to close ducks,you will call in and kill more ducks with a single quack done right than any amount of loud wrong notes.
got a sure-shot 700 years ago. That goes well. The old Olt 66's were a good caller.
Funnily enough I couldn't find the sureshot as It was with a bunch of stuff and hadn't used it in 12+years so I bought one of those flexy synthetics from humping and Fisting Only about 40 bucks and sounds very good. I then found the sureshot so I had both. I went to find them to see what they were for this comment but I could only find the old one not the new one which is strange as they should've been together.
Cupped Wing 'The Mutt' double reed callers are great. Made in the BOP and good quality. Got one added to my collection a few years back (when they were a a bit cheaper) and its now my most used caller.
Got this one, but there are other options that are cheaper as well:
https://broncos.co.nz/hunting/huntin...t-nuclear-lime
That's sort of what I did with the H+F jobbie. Took it outside and tried it out along with some others.Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
Soft feeding chuckles but didnt break up on loud highball calls. Only a small caller so has to be different to the old wooden one but I reckon ity had just as good a tone as some dearer ones.
Had couple of flextone double reed calls for several years. When mallards are leery I blow both together. They cant resist those four reeds all going in sync.
JJ Lares do some good ones and if you're lucky enough to find a Jeff Foiles caller named "the legend" then buy it on the spot
A friends son has just started making them High Hail or something. They look absolutely amazing and are similar in sounds to a Hammond. Not budget but then quality very really is. Will see if I can find Shanes page.
I have an assortment -i vary the use to the situation .however last year i was very fortunate to come across on TM the old rubber bellowed scotch call (my father s type in the 60s)-it forms part of my collection cant wait to give it a go.
Ihave a couple of olts which give big beautiful mellow sounds ,a couple of acrylics -a more strident raspy sound and even a drake call -cant blow it to save myself -mate is a bloody cracker at it.
funny thing is a few years ago had a colony of mallards on our front lawn(acorns)and one day decided to try a caller or two.blew one and three hens spun round hissing and if i understand duckese inviting me to" shove it where the sun dont shine". that colomny comes and goes from its base not 200m away .now im in the new house ,they often sail over returning to base after a feed and ive had occasions where ive had em circle me 2-3times in response to my calling (crap as it is).
Those scotch callers are good for the feeding chuckle. I remember trying it out to get the quacks going but got sick of that. Took it out of the rubber bellows part and reset the reed so I could use it conventionally. Still not as good as the other ones I got later