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i new a new honker call! what you all recommend? im 17 and newer into calling not the best caller, and don't want to spend a fortune

Welcome to the forum. Don't know a lot about goose calls but several people on here will help you out.

I'm not much of a goose caller. But I blew a shore thing a month or so ago for the first time. By far the easiest and best sounding honker call I've ever ran. Kinda pricy though...I think around $150. Right now I use the primos honky tonk and I think it's ok for a $25 call.

Lord knows I have much "better" Canada calls than I need, but if money's an issue, I'd suggest getting a good poly carbonate, like RNT/Quackhead's Goosezilla, and learning to tune and run it, which RNT's Shawn Stahl also has free Youtube videos covering, as do others.

I would also look into a poly Sentinel. from Southern Game Calls.

For an inexpensive call that sounds good, I always direct people towards the Buck Gardner Canada Hammer II or the Zink PC-1. Usually run about $30 and sound nearly as good as most acrylics. I had the honky tonk and I just can't get anything deep out of it and it feels like it's made out of recycled plastic silverware.

Fuck these guys. Go all out and get the most expensive call you can get. All of the guys here with crazy amounts of money into their duck calls kill the most ducks.....

Pretty sure that concept works for geese too.

Eric Haynes wrote:Fuck these guys. Go all out and get the most expensive call you can get. All of the guys here with crazy amounts of money into their duck calls kill the most ducks.....

Pretty sure that concept works for geese too.

Paging Duck Hammer!

sws002 wrote:For an inexpensive call that sounds good, I always direct people towards the Buck Gardner Canada Hammer II or the Zink PC-1. Usually run about $30 and sound nearly as good as most acrylics. I had the honky tonk and I just can't get anything deep out of it and it feels like it's made out of recycled plastic silverware.

That it does. Cheapest feeling call I've ever had in my hands. I liked it better than the goosezilla though. Wasn't a fan of that one.

sws002 wrote:For an inexpensive call that sounds good, I always direct people towards the Buck Gardner Canada Hammer II or the Zink PC-1. Usually run about $30 and sound nearly as good as most acrylics. I had the honky tonk and I just can't get anything deep out of it and it feels like it's made out of recycled plastic silverware.

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But I could run the honkytonk, it just winded me.

Canada Hammer2 is a good low priced call

What have you used, what did you like, and what's your ball park that you want to spend?

Bay country shore thing, best short reed on the market IMO. Easy to run, little air required and can literally do it all.

sws002 wrote:

Eric Haynes wrote:Fuck these guys. Go all out and get the most expensive call you can get. All of the guys here with crazy amounts of money into their duck calls kill the most ducks.....

Pretty sure that concept works for geese too.

Paging Duck Hammer!

Motherfucker!

Eric Haynes wrote:Fuck these guys. Go all out and get the most expensive call you can get. All of the guys here with crazy amounts of money into their duck calls kill the most ducks.....

Pretty sure that concept works for geese too.

I once won $20 from a buddy by calling in our (then 2-per) Ohio Valley Canada limits with a 25-cent garage sale squeeze bulb bicycle horn, then did it again the next morning, just because I could. Pitched it after that, though, because it seemed disrespectful.

While I'm here, though, I'll repeat the importance of learning to tune your own calls. If you can't do that, you'll never know how well any call might really suit you. Little doubt the percentage of calls sold, traded or pitched just because the guy behind them had a different physiology, methodology and/or tone preferences than whoever tuned them at the shop and didn't know how to retune them to better suit his own is way the hey up there.

Rick wrote:While I'm here, though, I'll repeat the importance of learning to tune your own calls. If you can't do that, you'll never know how well any call might really suit you. Little doubt the percentage of calls sold, traded or pitched just because the guy behind them had a different physiology, methodology and/or tone preferences than whoever tuned them at the shop and didn't know how to retune them to better suit his own is way the hey up there.

This is me. I'm a one call kind of person.

thanks guys helped a lot

NuffDaddy wrote:

sws002 wrote:For an inexpensive call that sounds good, I always direct people towards the Buck Gardner Canada Hammer II or the Zink PC-1. Usually run about $30 and sound nearly as good as most acrylics. I had the honky tonk and I just can't get anything deep out of it and it feels like it's made out of recycled plastic silverware.

That it does. Cheapest feeling call I've ever had in my hands. I liked it better than the goosezilla though. Wasn't a fan of that one.

Ya I'm not a huge fan of the RNT goose calls, only one I've ever cared for is the G3 and I still wouldn't spend the money for one. Buck Gardner is hard to beat for an entry level call that still sounds good, duck or goose. Same goes for Zink. That being said, I run a GK LG-1, and I pretty well suck at goose calling. I just buy more decoys and make moans and short clucks while everyone else winds themselves.