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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

johnc wrote:Yes

johnc wrote:

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

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

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

johnc wrote:

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