It's Saturday....just shooting out a heads up about what I've been up to , what I'm going to do etc...this will be long , but I like to use communication like I do at my real work to make things run smoothly, same here on the forum
No calls available today ... possibly tomorrow, when I make a post that's when that's going to be sorted out ..the following weekend will be zero calls made , I'm headed to Atlanta with the trailer for my wife's trade show expo , I'm the designated trailer hailer , tradeshow seter-uper , baby sitter and designated beefjerkey and red-bull digester for a few days
Just a heads up , I totally tweaked and tuned out all the calls I made on Sunday last week and...nothing goes out untill it's ready to kill , so to all the new owners , please kill some nice ones with them !
I just now , placed a order of "material" some of the stuff I use is real hard to source, and the price of the woods has skyrocketed recently..so I'm going to have enough to be set well into next season..that's the good news ...I'll try and make a few more pushpins ...but come September, all hell breaks loose as my other business of making duck call whistles totally blows up like crazy
I am also a utterly fanatical waterfowl hunter ...we have a species of duck down here in Florida called a black bellied whistling duck...it's actually a goose ....but it makes a very high pitched raspy whistle ..I perfected after over a decade of research and development a specific call for them a few years ago and I literally cant make these fast enough...if that doesn't keep be busy enough I spent a full year of my time perfecting a specific Wigeon whistle..it's the first of it's kind -and that too has totally gone off like a keg of dynamite
My typical yearly cycle is...making duck calls September till January...but I get slammed with orders and keep going till spring where I'm busy making turkey calls and running the site this year I really concentrated on getting turkey calls into the hands of real turkey hunters ...I had to come up with some crazy zig zag disco moves to dodge call resellers and collectors...but in the end I'm in a position to target my preferred customers and that is turkey hunters ... I got real tired of people contacting me saying they purchased my calls from a middleman with a middleman markup , or getting the feeling they would end up in a cabinet instead of a vest ...if your offended by that ...TUFF Sh-T I'm selling to turkey hunters first ...if I open up a list again , that will open the doors up to the shenanigans again ...no list folks , this is better for YOU
I've known alot of turkey callmakers in my time , some very very famous , some helped me , some I helped ..alot of callmakers I admittedly helped sell a lot of calls over the years ... I paid alot of dues with the Pushpin thing , I spent years toiling away spending untold hours and sums of $ to get it figured out , I'm literally thinking of making a book about the "secret sauce" of making them as I feel the design has unbelievable potential-
in 2 to 5 years time I will be fully retired from UPS ...and long gone will be waking up at 5:45 am and returning home at 8 pm or later , I'm gonna miss the place , but life goes on and I'll be able to finally relax for once iny life ...and also spend some time with the family ...make more calls than just weekends too
Thanks Shannon
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