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I know that a lot of the rules we hunt by are from long ago when they outlawed market hunting,however I have a question about one in particular. I am asking about the recorded sounds/calls. Was this put in,in 1934 like the rest of the rules, because if so, what type of device in 1934 would have been able to make it out to the marsh or field? I don'y think there were tape recorders back then, or any portable device that could have done the job. If they had to drag the old Victrola out there with a record playing it seems unlikely that most people would have even had one. Just wondering if anyone has any ideas or info.........

don novicki wrote:I know that a lot of the rules we hunt by are from long ago when they outlawed market hunting,however I have a question about one in particular. I am asking about the recorded sounds/calls. Was this put in,in 1934 like the rest of the rules, because if so, what type of device in 1934 would have been able to make it out to the marsh or field? I don'y think there were tape recorders back then, or any portable device that could have done the job. If they had to drag the old Victrola out there with a record playing it seems unlikely that most people would have even had one. Just wondering if anyone has any ideas or info.........

There are these people called politicians and they make the laws.
The first people to get violations in THE SPRING of 1934 were either senators or congressmen. Too good to wait for duck season. Thought they were above their own laws.
I have some ideas about what to do with them but it's against some sort of law or something.

I did a little more digging and found that the recorded device law was introduced in 1957. Again, this was not a time when there were lots of tape recorders or, for lack of a better word, record players that ran on batteries, so how this part of the law came into existence is beyond me. Maybe you went out back then with a mile or two of extension cords ? I know that Olt had his vinyl record of how to call geese and ducks but there wasn't much else in the way of recorded sounds back then........

Next step would be to find the first time someone got ticketed for violation of the "no electronic game calls" rule.
Wasn't born until 1961 but if I were a duckhunter in 1957 trying to cheat it would involve a record player, Two 2-meter FM tranceiver radios, and a PA system. Would have to use a generator or 12-volt battery for the PA and FM receiver. It was possible anyway.
Olly would be a huge help in doing something like this because he's into Ham radio a little bit.
Of course now days we got CD players set up for calling waterfowl. Need some snow goose CD's?

I'm not sure they had FM radios in 1957. Sort of doubt it but you get the idea I hope. You'd need a radio station that plays duck tunes basically.