Preseason 2017-2018

Re: Preseason 2017-2018

Postby Rick » Sun Sep 10, 2017 4:59 am

That was quick, did you quit your day job?
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Re: Preseason 2017-2018

Postby Ericdc » Sun Sep 10, 2017 9:06 pm

johnc wrote:Oh no

1 hospital M-F 8-4
1 hospital M W F 445pm --- 8 pm ish

Taxidermy weekends and in between other work---usually Tues --Thurs ----hopefully speck calling locked in because i have not been practicing


Is that your hunting season work schedule too?


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Re: Preseason 2017-2018

Postby Ericdc » Mon Sep 11, 2017 8:08 am

johnc wrote:Yes


Gotcha, I thought you were able to hunt some during the week I guess.


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Re: Preseason 2017-2018

Postby Rick » Sun Sep 24, 2017 4:34 am

Got pretty shrill, but the dogs didn't howl.
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Re: Preseason 2017-2018

Postby Ericdc » Tue Sep 26, 2017 2:55 pm

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Traveling to the birds is not so bad of an idea these days


Yea that doesn’t look like a SWLA pit, or at least I’ve never seen one like that.

That’s a northeast LA or Arkansas pit


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Re: Preseason 2017-2018

Postby Rick » Tue Sep 26, 2017 3:52 pm

Erwin tried luring me to Arkansas with tales of low pressure and tame specks while he was here last week. But it still seems a long drive to shoot birds. Maybe when we run out of specks altogether...
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Re: Preseason 2017-2018

Postby aunt betty » Tue Sep 26, 2017 4:39 pm

Ericdc wrote:
johnc wrote:
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Traveling to the birds is not so bad of an idea these days


Yea that doesn’t look like a SWLA pit, or at least I’ve never seen one like that.

That’s a northeast LA or Arkansas pit


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Looks awful familiar.
So familiar that I can feel the weight of the mud on my legs from all the walks out to it and back.
I've heard that it's incredibly stupid to fuck around with a crazy man's head.
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Re: Preseason 2017-2018

Postby Rick » Tue Sep 26, 2017 6:01 pm

johnc wrote:No such thing as a tame speck---ask AJ or Dee how tame specks are in Arkansas NOW


Said you call and they come, "ain't like here." Maybe he's working for the Jonesboro Chamber of Commerce...

(And, yes, I know birds that have seen some pressure can be a pain wherever you find them.)
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Re: Preseason 2017-2018

Postby aunt betty » Wed Sep 27, 2017 12:07 pm

First time out I discovered "it".
The guys had crossed our double-levee with their atv's. All they had to do was ride to the back of the lease then enter the field but noooo they had to take a shortcut.
That's how you get kicked out of the club in the first week of the season. :D

The third levee was NOT free and it had to be done like yesterday.
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Re: Preseason 2017-2018

Postby Rick » Tue Oct 03, 2017 12:28 pm

Now we're getting to the real object of the exercise.
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Re: Preseason 2017-2018

Postby Rick » Tue Oct 03, 2017 2:50 pm

Could be sweet. (And a PIA to care for.)

Many years ago a doc from LC rented what we called the pump blind, which was then a bean field, and sunk his own nifty little aluminum two-man pit flush with the ground maybe 150yds from out pit. He then brushed our blind like the Average Joe's hotel blind and put a mix of perhaps 3 dozen old speck and snow shells around it to mimic "Joe's" area average spread.

Meanwhile, back at the pump shed, he parked what appeared a dog trailer modified as dry storage for 11 speck stuffers, which he and a pal would carry out to his well hidden pit hanging from a pole between them on hunt mornings. Only hunted that way one season before letting the lease go, because their speck-only hunts were usually over so quickly with that setup that he moved on to a mixed bag location.
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Re: Preseason 2017-2018

Postby Ericdc » Sun Oct 29, 2017 8:39 pm

johnc wrote:
2017 buzzard field tune.mp3


2017 duck lares 1.390 reed.mp3


2017 heavy slow fat double.mp3


blind is ready

getting calls right


Decoys out or just blind brushed?


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Re: Preseason 2017-2018

Postby Rick » Mon Oct 30, 2017 4:33 am

Sounds like you're ready for them.
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Re: Preseason 2017-2018

Postby DComeaux » Mon Oct 30, 2017 11:44 am

I wish my Riceland speck had a lower side to it. I love those low murmurs and groans, but I can't seem to get it low enough, and don't have the courage or knowledge to tinker with it...... I know I'd screw it up.

How do you find that line between high end yodles and low, deep mummers without sacrificing much of either?
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Re: Preseason 2017-2018

Postby DComeaux » Mon Oct 30, 2017 1:08 pm

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DComeaux wrote:I wish my Riceland speck had a lower side to it. I love those low murmurs and groans, but I can't seem to get it low enough, and don't have the courage or knowledge to tinker with it...... I know I'd screw it up.

How do you find that line between high end yodles and low, deep mummers without sacrificing much of either?


I agree a big low is gonna be hard to get on a call tuned toward the higher end

if your Riceland has a black line above the wedge on the reed---take a screw driver turned horizontal or little hammer and barely tap down the wedge a hair (like so little you wonder if it even moved)at a time

this will loosen your bottom a little at a time---now realize this is gonna make the high harder to reach---BUT it may still be plenty high

OR

force down the low---leave call as is

1---big round grip for your low,almost closed as if holding a ball---open just a little and run good hard hum into that void you create with the low grip---make yourself mess it up at first by hands too closed then slowly open until you find that low rich line where the call will run---it will take good moderate voice and grip to get the heavy low---

2---it will feel like you are pushing against the call fighting back---this is normal to feel---this is why the heavy voice force is needed to MAKE that call run low---that heavy low I do is not a finesse deal---it is very controlled,but I am forcing the call down into that low

if the call is set toward the high,just run as you normally would in the high

the extreme high is another function of forcing the call but in a different way

slightly pull the trigger finger of the on the call hand partially over the exhaust of the call barrel,once again run the call moderately,dont hold back,other hand over the on the call hand more in an open ended tubular grip opposed to the big rounded grip for the low end

you will have to play with just how much trigger finger is needed to get the high you want

if your current high is too your liking,run however you are achieving at present

I run the extremes,it is what I practice,it is what I need to kill geese---this is not easy,gonna take a lot of messing up before you find what you like


I'm going to give it whirl... Just need to find a place to practice where I don't piss off too many people.
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Re: Preseason 2017-2018

Postby Deltaman » Mon Oct 30, 2017 1:47 pm

"Just need to find a place to practice where I don't piss off too many people."

That hit home Dave!!!!!!! I've got 3 brothers that hunt. Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings usually found us "out back", with duck calls in hand..........much to the dissatisfaction of our mother, as we tried to out do each other............and so much so, that she finally banned us from putting a duck call in our hands during the holiday gatherings :lol: Not to mention what the neighbors were thinking :roll:
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