Summary: Using this one simple key can have a dramatic impact on your overall hunting and calling success.
This key can be summed up with the following statement, "When in the field, don't use any sound or calling sequence you haven't yet mastered."
Here's what we're talking about. Let's say that in the off-season you mastered the hen mallard quack, a pecking feeder call and a five note greeting call. The next time you take the field use only those three calls until you've mastered more.
When you only use those calling sequences that you've mastered when you take the field, you accomplish two very important steps that are crucial to successfully calling ducks and geese.
First, because you've mastered these sounds and calling sequences you will produce a realistic and life-like sound, which puts you in a very elite group of waterfowl callers and if you've spent much time in the field you know how rare this truly is.
Second, because you're using a sound or calling sequence that you've mastered you won't be losing and flaring birds because of the improper and often rotten sounds coming out of your call and believe us, this is one of the main reasons that both ducks and geese refuse to come into a decoy spread.
I can assure you that over the years, we have killed hundreds if not thousands of birds that came into our spread after having been chased off other hunters spreads because of their poor calling. I can also assure you that had they used just a few simple calls that they had a mastery of whether calling ducks or geese, their success ratios would have sky-rocketed.
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