tuning your calls

[jehler]

Thats what I am talking about!! Thank you.

I keep wondering why you don't log on to DHC and PM Rick hall?

[Tomkat]

Thats what I am talking about!! Thank you.

I keep wondering why you don't log on to DHC and PM Rick hall?

If you didn't have that cigar sticking out of your mouth I would kiss you right on the lips! Even though you are not ready to join the Libertarian party, you are a good dude, even with that child molester charge hanging over your head. or was that a midget?

(pussy, cry baby, ball less bastard, to name a few reasons) YEP, the REJECTED ME JEHLER

[rebelp74]

Thats what I am talking about!! Thank you.

I keep wondering why you don't log on to DHC and PM Rick hall?

If you didn't have that cigar sticking out of your mouth I would kiss you right on the lips! Even though you are not ready to join the Libertarian party, you are a good dude, even with that child molester charge hanging over your head. or was that a midget?

(pussy, cry baby, ball less bastard, to name a few reasons) YEP, the REJECTED ME JEHLER

You know how I know you're gay

[aunt betty]

And then there is this...
http://www.fieldandstream.com/forums/hunting/birds/nunber-two-reason-hunters-walk-out-duck-woods-empty-handed OUCH...I'd say the guy who wrote the blog hunts alone all the time. There's a reason we do that.

[Tomkat]

You know how I know you're gay

watch it coon ass or I will get you over the stump too

[rebelp74]

You know how I know you're gay

watch it coon ass or I will get you over the stump too

Homey don't play that!

[Tomkat]

And then there is this...
http://www.fieldandstream.com/forums/hunting/birds/nunber-two-reason-hunters-walk-out-duck-woods-empty-handed OUCH...I'd say the guy who wrote the blog hunts alone all the time. There's a reason we do that.

No argument from me. I told you I am killing ducks. I just want to sound better doing it. If they are coming into the spread, we don't utter a sound.

[aunt betty]

Funny gift-call I got. Cute.

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[The Duck Hammer]

Is that a whistle?

[aunt betty]

Is that a whistle?

Na, it has a reed or something and sounds horrible.
My daughter got it for me for $5. It's something unique for the lanyard.

[RickC]

TomKat, reading your post about that single quack made me think of a couple incidents, one just last week. I live 5 minutes from a lake and I'll usually get up one morning in my days off, grab some coffee, binos and the bulldog and go check out the wildlife.
Last week I parked maybe 70 yards from the water, got out with the dog and there were 2 drake mallards and a hen sitting there. Both drakes took off to the left then swung around at about 400 yards started flying off to the right. The whole time this hen is sitting there calling with a single quack every 2 - 3 seconds and not loud at all and never changing inflection or volume.
Those two drakes were going away and at around 600 yards 1 drake peals off and flys straight back to the hen with me and the dog still standing there.
The other incident was during the season and I had a nice group of 20 mallards fly by at around 300 yards. I through out 3 single low volume quacks with a Throwback small bore and a few pealed off and dropped in to my spread.
Bottom line is I've found that a lot of times some single low volume quacks, especially in open water areas works just fine.

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[Tomkat]

And I still use that single quack. I try to call the least amount possible to get them in. Sometimes I hit them with a drake whistle too.


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[aunt betty]

I have also heard this single-quack thing but...
It was in timber. Often a flock of mallard ducks will land in the boat lane or the next hole over.
They form a group and swim around kind of resting nervously.
Have heard it many times. A hen will quack, one two three seconds, quack, one two three seconds quack...repeat.
Real loud.

I think they're ducks that spotted me and swam over to tease.

[NuffDaddy]

I always thought that the repeating hen quacks were more if a danger call. Ive heard it many times in the flooded corn fields...usually before light. A hen will land in the deeks and swim around for a min then make a bunch of repeating quacks then take off.


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[Tomkat]

I always thought that the repeating hen quacks were more if a danger call. Ive heard it many times in the flooded corn fields...usually before light. A hen will land in the deeks and swim around for a min then make a bunch of repeating quacks then take off.


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It has been very dangerous for the ducks that have flown over my spread to investigate.

[NuffDaddy]

I always thought that the repeating hen quacks were more if a danger call. Ive heard it many times in the flooded corn fields...usually before light. A hen will land in the deeks and swim around for a min then make a bunch of repeating quacks then take off.


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It has been very dangerous for the ducks that have flown over my spread to investigate.

:lol:
I'll have to give that a try this fall. I do a lot of single quacks but I space them out at least 5 seconds. Don't think I've ever blown more than a 4 note call and had a duck respond to it.


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[RickC]

I always thought that the repeating hen quacks were more if a danger call. Ive heard it many times in the flooded corn fields...usually before light. A hen will land in the deeks and swim around for a min then make a bunch of repeating quacks then take off.


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I've heard that as well but it was s much faster string of quacks. This hen was continually calling but the time between was longer and softer

[banknote]

I always thought that the repeating hen quacks were more if a danger call. Ive heard it many times in the flooded corn fields...usually before light. A hen will land in the deeks and swim around for a min then make a bunch of repeating quacks then take off.


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I've heard that as well but it was s much faster string of quacks. This hen was continually calling but the time between was longer and softer

I had a single, nervous mallard hen land about 75 yards down the bank from my setup, and as soon as it was on the water it repeatedly quacked at 3-5 second intervals. Just "quack", wait a few seconds and "quack," and it was swimming closer the whole time. So I just mimicked her, repeating every quack, for several minutes. She swam all the way in to the dekes, realized she'd made a big mistake, and beat it the hell out of there.

My newbie ears have noticed what seems like a difference in inflection between a contented quack and a nervous/alarmed quack. The former sounds like a statement, with neutral, flat inflection. The latter sounds more like a question, with an upward inflection. When I blow I try to sound less like I'm asking and more like I'm telling.

[RickC]

What you described as she swam towards you sounds just like what I heard.
Nothing like hearing the real deal to learn from