Calls?

You can send it back to jeff in the off season. He'll re-tune any one of his calls for life! Better yet if you find one of his booths at any outdoor event he or one of his guys will do it for you on the spot. I beleive the Illinois state calling contest will be coming up soon and he'll be there for sure.

He is as close to Jeff Foils as I have seen ;D

But you'd better ask his son to do the tuning!

410 will make your calls sound like a goose on helium.

Just kidding he will set you up right unless you are hunting in the field next to him

Well I havent hunted in Indiana so I shouldnt have to worry about being in the field next to him.

I have a Zink SR-1 here that I mainly use.

Here's how to tune one courtesy of www.performancecalls.com . They make a sweet "fast talker" also:


Standard Tuning - Standard tuning of a goose call will have a call playing to 90% of your calling ability's potential. The standard way to tune a call is to manipulate the guts and reed. Place the reed on top of the tone board so the tip of the reed can be barely pushed down into the tone board. Now place your wedge down to roughly 1/16 below where the reeds taper stops. Now push this whole setup down into the insert until the wedge is roughly 1/16-18 of an inch of the wedge is sticking out. Double check that the reeds tip barely drops down into the tone board. The smaller the gap between the trough in the tone board and your reed, the more efficient your call will play.

Fine tuning a call to your calling style - You can tune a call to play higher or lower in pitch. If you want your call to play deeper you can move the wedge assembly out a little ways or you can make the portion of the reed longer. Remember though that the tip of the reed must fall into that tone channel. If it does not, the call will not break over. Now that your call is 90% tuned, you can try super tuning your call if you are proficient on it. Manipulating the guts of a goose call You can change the pitch of a goose call by moving the guts in or out of the insert. The farther into the insert you press the guts, the higher pitched the call will play. The farther out you have the guts pushed into the insert, the deeper the call will play. This is assuming we are using the same reed placement in relationship to the guts. Also the looser the guts are inside the insert, the lower in pitch a call will play. You can achieve this by shaving the wedge down. This is a very touchy situation as if the guts do not fit tight enough, they will come un-tuned very easy. Shaving the wedge is best left to very experienced call tuners that no exactly what they are looking to get out of there call in the areas of pitch and tone.

No problem bud. When I bought my SR-1 I was ready to drive back to BPS in Clarksville and try to get my money back. I shortened the reed a little and now I love the call. Just took a little getting used to.

Got a couple of calls I use: a Buck Gardner double reed as a diver call.
A Timber wolf single reed. I prefer single reeds for mallard sounds.
and the one I use most- a combo whistle. Grunt into it and make the male mallard sound... really brings in the birds. A flambo goose call works well for me.
Now that being said, different calls work well for different people.
My 12 yr old son really can belt it out on a Quack head call and a old nag.
I sound a little goofy on the nag.
A combination of getting familiar with the call and the call settling to you will bring better sounds.

Real funny. I guess I'll have to keep it away from my son so that he doesn't end up in the ballet with duff's ;D

hahaha. I notified foiles about the crack in my call and they are going to replace it if I send it back. Maybe Ill just get an acrylic one now. Definately not that peppermint patty green one though duff

Sorry rookie, but it's called Mallard Green. It don't spook birds like that sweet pink does. ;D You should have taken notice how nice the birds were working down into our spread until you pulled out your call.