Episode 3 of Cain’t Run the Haint..Can’t Get Worse

[StruttinGobbler3]

Alright, here we go again. This recording was done at about 75 yards from the phone doing the recording. Disregard dog and my baby girl making sounds in the background lol. What do y'all think of this? On this episode, we find out if guesswho will come down off the hill and hunt with me yet. Stay tuned.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f74vktwmq2nzhgl/Audio%202020-02-18%2018.51.02.m4a?dl=0

[guesswho]

Nope, still on the hill.  Third time obviously isn't always the charm.  I can hear improvement, especially at the beginning of a couple of the gobbles.  When I learned on a diaphragm I started with the first couple of notes.   Once I had a good feel for that I added a little more, and then finally was able to run it all together for a decent gobble.  I tried that with a Haint with zero luck.  I never made any progress with it.  But you are definitely headed in the right direction.   

 

[StruttinGobbler3]

Nope, still on the hill.  Third time obviously isn't always the charm.  I can hear improvement, especially at the beginning of a couple of the gobbles.  When I learned on a diaphragm I started with the first couple of notes.   Once I had a good feel for that I added a little more, and then finally was able to run it all together for a decent gobble.  I tried that with a Haint with zero luck.  I never made any progress with it.  But you are definitely headed in the right direction.   

This is proving to be a very difficult nut to crack for sure. This is much harder than when I learned to play a trumpet a few years ago. Started running mouth calls around twenty years ago and a gobble is the only sound I can't make using one


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[guesswho]

I'm impressed you know how to post sound files.  I'm clueless.   That Haint is one call that I finally just waived the white flag, which is unusual for me. 

[StruttinGobbler3]

It took several failed attempts, a strong craving for liquor, and would make a preacher cuss. But I finally figured out how to post them using Dropbox. At this point I'm not sure I will be able to improve much more with the haint, I've tweaked my technique in every way I know how. I'm tempted to try one of those flextone thunder gobble calls. But I'm so hardheaded I keep hammering on the haint.


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[Nathan_Wiles]

Flextone call is in the drawer with "Dead Silence", "The Hatchet" and "Triple Threat"


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[HookedonHooks]

It took several failed attempts, a strong craving for liquor, and would make a preacher cuss. But I finally figured out how to post them using Dropbox. At this point I'm not sure I will be able to improve much more with the haint, I've tweaked my technique in every way I know how. I'm tempted to try one of those flextone thunder gobble calls. But I'm so hardheaded I keep hammering on the haint.

For the love of all that is holy stay away from the Flextone. It's much easier to get the sequence, but has the tone of a train whistle.

Keep on with the Haint and if you also wave the white flag, box gobbling is pretty easy to fall back on.

[Hobbes]

Besides quieter and maybe a little slower, I'm not picking up much difference from sound file one to three.  You've got more patience than me.  That's probably why I don't purr on a mouth call and never use a tube call.

[backforty]

My haint is somewhere halfway down a ridge. I got pretty good with it at the house but as soon as that gobbler got my nerves up it sounded closer to a dying rooster. Got frustrated and threw it as far as I could in the direction of the gobbler I had just freaked out.

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[MK M GOBL]

Started running mouth calls around twenty years ago and a gobble is the only sound I can't make using one

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Have you put the time into the mouth call? I use one for my "gobble" and works! I had a guy show me how he started and I just ended up learning my own way.

I'll see if I can do this drop box thing and post it here.


MK M GOBL

[StruttinGobbler3]

Started running mouth calls around twenty years ago and a gobble is the only sound I can't make using one

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Have you put the time into the mouth call? I use one for my "gobble" and works! I had a guy show me how he started and I just ended up learning my own way.

I'll see if I can do this drop box thing and post it here.


MK M GOBL

What technique are you using to make a gobble with a mouth call? Any specific word you're saying into the call or anything like that?


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[MK M GOBL]

So here is the best way I can explain.

I do use the tikka tikka tukka tukka tukka sounds, as I do this I fill my cheeks with air and then from my diaphragm almost like coughing/laughing let the air out.

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MK M GOBL

[hotspur]

You could have mastered a tube call by now

[crow]

You could have mastered a tube call by now

[Marc]

You have the note down, you just need to figure out the back-pressure.

You need to use back pressure...  Do NOT fill your cheeks with air. Use your diaphragm only.  (Maybe others have had different experiences with this aspect though).

Start with your hands open and to the "Ticka-ticka" sound (from your diaphragm), and then cup your hands over the call for back-pressure.  As you open and close your hands over the call (creating less and more back-pressure) you should get an idea of how much back pressure you need to start and finish the note.

You will need to start the call with some degree of back-pressure, and finish with increasing back-pressure.

It would appear that this is an easy call for most duck hunters (who can call at all proficiently with a mallard call) to learn.  The feeding chuckle is almost second nature, and most duck calls (to sound realistic) require degrees of changing back-pressure.

My duck hunting friends (who turkey hunt) were able to basically pick the call up off the shelf and make it work in seconds...  Non-duck hunting (or duck calling) turkey hunters seem to find this call to be an enigma...