Got a Faulks duck call and a PS Olt goose call 1969 or 1970.

Olt calls were made close to where I grew up.

 

Pekin, IL, if memory serves. My first was a P.S. Olt D-2. I think it was ~$4.

 

Here they are. I got the first one while in High School, so around 1968 or so. Still can't call worth a ****.

 

Lohman out of Kansas City Missouri. Very short, raspy and loud call. I found it in one of my Grandpas coat pockets. I’m guessing it’s from the 1950’s or earlier. . I started using in the early 90’s. (I need to dust my shelves)

 

The D-2's go for a fair amount of money nowadays.

 

Started way back in the 1960s with Herters and Olt calls. I went with Faulk's cane calls for about a dozen years in the 1980s. Today, I use nothing but Haydel double reed calls because I can't over blow them enough to make them break. I also use a Duck Commander Mallard Drake call.

 

Yentzen sure shot double reed, Olt, and Lohman. Late 70's.

 

Had an old Olt call. Then I bought a Knight and Hale Magnum Clucker and some diaphragm call combo that came with a video. Used that call a long time. Worked well. Still like it.

 

When out duck hunting, my first call and the one I used to use the most was..."anybody got any shells they can loan me, I am out"

 

So you’re the guy yelling and scaring the birds🙄

 

I am the worst duck caller on the planet. A blessing actually....ha

I usually pick ducks while sitting over the decoys. My old calls were on a lanyard. I took it off and laid it between my legs. Covered the call with feathers and left them there. Came back the next day and they were gone. Dangit.

Those were the days.

 

I am the worst duck caller on the planet. A blessing actually....ha

I wouldn't be too sure about that.

 

But on a more serious note, my parents traveled to Israel years and years ago in the fall of the year. My father, a great and successful duck hunter, visited a couple sporting good stores looking for a duck call he could bring home as a "souvenir ". Later that year, out on the North Run of Ogden bay, he decided to see just what those desert people knew about hunting ducks. So he got out his new call and began to call...strangest sound I ever heard...it sounded like " fraye kukuruze", fraye kukuruze, fraye kukuruze". But like magic, even the highest flying ducks would nearly stop in mid flight and head straight into our decoys. A finer day on the marsh we never had. But as the day went on, and the pile of ducks mounted, the magic call began to lessen in volume until it was barely audible. Then the strangest thing happened. Like the old movie prop wooden guns that had a sign pop out that said "bang", a small sign popped from the bell of the call ..."please deposit .25 cent to continue using this call."

It is only recently with the help of the internet did I discover why the Yiddish words "fraye kukuruze" did such a number on those unsuspecting ducks.

 

Trying to remember, but it was for sure a hand-me-down from my dad. I think it was an old Lohman of some sort around 1986 or 1987. I have an old “goose flute” from around 1990. Don’t know the brand and don’t want to dig it out now, but I love that call. Double, triple, quadruple clucks…the geese loved it!

I’m not a collector of calls and pretty utilitarian with them. My main duck call right now is Primos’ “Original Wench”. I think I bought it 10 years ago for about $12-13. Just checked, and it’s now about $17. I need to replace mine as it’s starting to bind up on heavily used days.

 

Take a look at the Primos P.H.A.T Lady….,It is a single reed and easy to work. It has been my favorite call for years, probably 20 years. They are $30

 

I’ll do that Rob. I need one loud single reed and a softer, raspier double reed. Sounds like the PHAT Lady might suffice for the single.

 

I got serious about waterfowl about the time Whistling Wings videos came out - seems like they pushed RNT Calls and Zink Calls pretty heavily, if my memory is correct. I had a PH-1 call from Zink and a Daisey Cutter from RNT. First goose call was a Tim Grounds Flute-style. Also jumped on the black hoodie bandwagon, but have since repented . . . kind of.

I was/am abysmal of a caller at best, so I usually just wear the lanyard to look the part.

 

I was/am abysmal of a caller at best, so I usually just wear the lanyard to look the part.

UTube videos and LOTS of practice will fix that Jeff.