Glad to see another 870 out there that’s worn properly. Mine has a couple decades of use mostly as a shot gun, sometimes as a blunt object and once as a boat paddle. Doesn’t have much of the original finish left and I prefer it that way. When not in duck configuration she is on standby for home defense.
Joel! Another video where you knocked it out of the park. I’m no where near a great caller but it nice to see and hear a real hunter and learn. Hope all is well with you and yours!! God bless! 🦆🦆
@@SurvivingDuckSeason about that 870. I wore out three of them and I think we're about the same age. Three wingmasters. Got one that rings when you pump it? You're using that remi to let the others shoot. Right? I tried pumping and with 8 or 9 binellis in the blind it's way too slow. You must be fun to hunt with pokey. Let's see... in 1975 my dad bought two wingmasters on sale on Thanksgiving day so we could hunt ducks. I still have mine.
Thanks for the help, knowledge, and time to help out. I just started calling this year. Between all your videos and my buddies it is getting better. Thanks again!
One of the funnest hunts I ever had was where we had 8 of us in a blind. The specks were working but three of the hunters only could do honker calls. We decided to just make a whole lot of noise. And it worked. Holy cow what a day. Ear plugs for all.
You've become one of my favorite duck hunting channels! Thanks for all the informative videos. I finished up my second season waterfowl hunting and called in a lot of ducks and geese this year, despite my calling! Can't wait for more videos and of course the next duck season.
Marc griffis thanks! More videos coming at ya! I’m still recovering from the season, but give me a couple weeks and I’ll be wishing for the season to start again!
Thanks so much for the video Joel! I love a) how ripped your dog is and b) how focused she is on the birds clearly going by. Great video, really like it paired with your feed call vs chuckle video
Indie is a real athlete! She is in great shape right now... but now that the season is over, she will be taking a much deserved break for a while. It doesn’t take long for her to pick up a few pounds lol!
Ur pups shoulders have definition like my pitbull! She looks very intelligent, and also like a big sweetie 😊 Give her a chickenbreast shredded into her regular food for being such a good girl! I pick up a few pounds every week for my girls, one is a blue nose pitbull and the other is a cocker spaniel that is paralyzed from the waist down. My GF and I both noticed after a few weeks of mixing in chicken with every meal that both their fur got noticeably softer!
Just started following you Joel here in New Zealand. All of your comments based around your Arkansas hunting is relevant to our hunting here in New Zealand. Our season runs from 1st Saturday in May until end of June or July depending on which region you hunt in. Really enjoying your shows Thankyou
I totally agree with u buddy. I blow the same exact Mondo LTS model and it does not sound as good as it does when I have the tone board turned up or down. Any other was just don’t sound or feel right. Especially with a call that takes a lot of air and experience to blow as it is. Good video bud
This is my opinion you’ve got to be able to read ducks and see how they react. Every flock is different just as every duck is different. Think about this some are very vocal coming and like to be called whereas others not like that give him a slight feed call and bam gone to the next county. I personally think you got to react to what the ducks are doing. Always a good practice is less is more feed call single quack and a very soft 3-4 note series. Listen to ducks on a pond and hear those sounds to mimic them on the water.
I am a terrible caller and they all call me out on it. However, I make it up with scouting :) Know where the birds want to be and you really don't need to call often.
Joel, you are the best. Thank you for your honest , straight forward approach. Your concise, erudite explanation of some of the nuances of a disease that some rough North Americans seem to be afflicted with is greatly appreciated by us nukel drggerz. May God Bless you and yours!
Excellent video! Thank you very much for the tips! I would love to see a video in the future of what calls or sound you use in different situations. Thank you and God bless!
Man I was grunting for the longest time because people kept saying you’ve gotta use your voice too and I did that from about age 12 to 15 then we got in a lease with these old guys who could make a duck kill it’s self in the air lol and whenever the ducks got slow I’d just talk to them and get advice and practice in between flocks
Wonderful video as usual Joel. Thank you. Do you have any duck blind plans for construction to share with the group? I like the simplicity of the blind in your video. God bless.
I do have a video that we shot footage for that’s about how we do our different blinds. I was planning to put it together and upload later in the spring.
I had a guy tell me how bad my calling was while calling way out to a flock of 40+ mallards. 3 minutes later the whole flock was locked up feet stretched out to land. Worst duck caller in the world is a hen mallard lol.
Thanks for that, one thing you dont notice is your call sounds the same each way you hold it, but you hear it differently because you are listening with your ears, you should listen to your call through your head not with your ears, it should sound like you are making a duck quack with your mouth. The call is just to project the sound outward. If you pinch up your tongue in the back of your throat and make a quack that way it should sound exactly like when you blow your call. Also after a while you will notice that a proper duck call is just a low buzz then you will retune all your duck calls to get the correct buzz instead of an actual duck call sound. If you get them near enough it's near enough. And yeah that sounded like a great call, just adding some fluff to how to get ducks to respond to the call. Also buzzes dont echo
matt bugg Been duck hunting and duck calling for over 40 years and, all due respect...what? I’m not a hater or a troll, Matt, I promise, but I don’t understand most of what you said, but I’m willing to expand my mind and learn. Listening with head vs ears? “After a while you will notice that a proper duck call is just a low buzz then you will retune all your duck calls to get the correct buzz instead of an actual duck call sound.” Not sure what you’re saying here. My duck calls sound like ducks. Again, not hating/trolling, but interested to understand what you’re getting at. Right now, I don’t get it! 🦆🦆👍🏽👍🏽
It was an experience I had that changed how I blow duck calls one year it was really cold and we were hunting a river with ice chunks in it as me and my partner were too cold to really duck hunt and were more interested in the coffee a group of ducks landed in the mix right next to us and instead of hearing quack quack we were hearing a buzz buzz. After that whenever i hear ducks its just a buzz at different paces instead of and actual quack sound. So if you tune your calls to where they sound ducky all of them kinda do the buzz with the Reed vibration. The proper air presentation makes this happen but tuning your call so that the buzz and the quack sounds correct makes a difference. Its two different tones. And there is about 5 things you tune a duck call to do, buzz quack, feed, rasp and squeal. Everything the video shows is awesome. And everyone is different but the buzz is like built into a call and should be toned to what the birds do also.
So any advice on blowing a cut-down (Mondo) would be very helpful. Are you able to describe how you are controlling your air? This year I switched to a cut-down and I feel like it takes much more air and I haven’t got much control. It sounds pretty monotone to me. Any more advice would be much appreciated.
Surviving Duck Season good deal. I’m in Louisiana and I don’t know anyone else personally that uses one. I’ve blown Haydell’s and Duck Commander double reeds my whole life. I love the pure ducky sound that comes from a correctly blown cut-down but like I said I’m having trouble. Thanks
Took me years to figure it out. More pressure faster quacks is the key almost like a BARK . Work your daiphram hard. Get the BARK down then finesse from there. Now I can blow my Mondo 2B softer than my Mirco hen. 2B favorite call by far !!!! Dont give up.
Hey I have an off subject question but I need help. What does it mean if there are 5-10,000 snows in a big field but they are in 3 different feeds within the field. They are constantly getting up and flying changing groups and landing in front of each other more than normal. I hope this makes sense but what I’m mostly asking is why are they flying so much and landing with the other groups and what does it mean?
Turtleee I see them doing that when they have nearly fed the field out. Most times you see them leap frogging each other to get ahead and get the new feed.
Surviving Duck Season so should I still set up there? It is about a mile from their roost and when they get up they fly over that field every day and feed.
Turtleee it really depends on how many birds, how big the field, and how fast they are feeding it out. My experience is that if there are a lot of birds feeding, they will have it fed out in 3 or 4 days. As a rule of thumb, we watch the birds use a spot for 2 days in a row and the set up there on the third day. Will they use it longer? Sometimes... but every day past day 3 decreases your chance of them coming.
Surviving Duck Season our birds almost never go to the same field twice. I was thinking about setting up there just because I know for a fact they will fly over us. There are 3 other fields next to it we have access to as well. They sure are tricky!
Dogs going dude why aren't you getting me some of these birds. First a new called should stay with a double reed call they are easier to use just starting out. And new callers should be support callers if in a group of guys that can call. Don't over do it and stay down you don't need to hang out of the blind to call ducks. Keep your tongue up on the roof of your mouth and keep the pressure steady yes diaphragm manipulation is something you have to learn it's not just blowing into the call. Individuals that were in band and played horned instruments are pretty good at calling ducks and geese. Recently went duck and goose hunting and two of us did the calling we turned both ducks and geese many times and we didn't over do it. If your in a spot that the ducks want to be then calling will be minimal. The later in the season that's where good calling really makes a difference. Practice practice practice call while your driving around town sure people will think your crazy but you get practice in when you can.
I’ve got two videos on how to call. They show the basics of how to hold the call, air control, and how to make the calls. Here’s a link to part 1 ua-cam.com/video/1OI7VeI4-Z0/v-deo.html
Jeremy Wilson thanks for watching! Yeah I wasn’t a fan either till I got good on it, and saw how the ducks respond. Like most calls, it’s a tool that works well in certain places.
Thanks for watching! Do your buddies tell you that you sound bad on your call?
Loved the instructional bits, but loved even more your partner’s eyes to the sky! Lab ❤️!
Yup thanks! Indie is all business when she’s in the duck blind.
That was my exact thought, what a good girl no whining and eyes at all times checking birds passing wow
My dog really believes that my duck call works every time. There was one magical season where we had trouble counting...
Listened to the video, but watched Indie the whole time lol
That dog is a hunter. I love watching it looking for birds.
This is how I survive duck hunting off season. Thanks Joel.
And yes we banter back and forth at who needs to take a break from calling for the day.
Glad to see another 870 out there that’s worn properly. Mine has a couple decades of use mostly as a shot gun, sometimes as a blunt object and once as a boat paddle. Doesn’t have much of the original finish left and I prefer it that way. When not in duck configuration she is on standby for home defense.
I know exactly what you’re talking about!
The dog reaction when you started huffing was hilarious !
Good info,it took me many many years to become somewhat decent on a duck call.
This has got to be the most under rated channel ever
for sure
Joel! Another video where you knocked it out of the park. I’m no where near a great caller but it nice to see and hear a real hunter and learn. Hope all is well with you and yours!! God bless! 🦆🦆
I'm like'n the looks of that 870. Pretty sweet piece of hardware there dude.
KsOutdoorSports 31 years old! Lots of history there!
@@SurvivingDuckSeason about that 870. I wore out three of them and I think we're about the same age. Three wingmasters. Got one that rings when you pump it?
You're using that remi to let the others shoot. Right? I tried pumping and with 8 or 9 binellis in the blind it's way too slow.
You must be fun to hunt with pokey.
Let's see... in 1975 my dad bought two wingmasters on sale on Thanksgiving day so we could hunt ducks. I still have mine.
Absolutely true when calling with hunting partners.... Just like a well practiced band
Tone board on the top just helped me out tremendously
I just learned that I am a board on top caller… good to know!
Boy that dog was solid looking when you were calling!!
Great video Joel!!! I need one of these videos but for speckle belly calls!!!! 100% right at the end there!!
WeekendWarriorsWaterfowl yeah, I have a speck calling video on my list!
Best part of video...watching the dog looking for ducks.
Thanks for the help, knowledge, and time to help out. I just started calling this year. Between all your videos and my buddies it is getting better. Thanks again!
FINALLY, now I have a great reference that I can send guys to when they ask me how to blow a call!!
Dog was scanning the sky the whole time 😂
Thanks a lot Joel. Love how your partner is watching for birds.
One of the funnest hunts I ever had was where we had 8 of us in a blind. The specks were working but three of the hunters only could do honker calls. We decided to just make a whole lot of noise. And it worked. Holy cow what a day. Ear plugs for all.
Thanks man it made suck a difference when I turned it over
You've become one of my favorite duck hunting channels! Thanks for all the informative videos. I finished up my second season waterfowl hunting and called in a lot of ducks and geese this year, despite my calling! Can't wait for more videos and of course the next duck season.
Marc griffis thanks! More videos coming at ya! I’m still recovering from the season, but give me a couple weeks and I’ll be wishing for the season to start again!
Thanks so much for the video Joel! I love a) how ripped your dog is and b) how focused she is on the birds clearly going by. Great video, really like it paired with your feed call vs chuckle video
Indie is a real athlete! She is in great shape right now... but now that the season is over, she will be taking a much deserved break for a while. It doesn’t take long for her to pick up a few pounds lol!
Ur pups shoulders have definition like my pitbull! She looks very intelligent, and also like a big sweetie 😊 Give her a chickenbreast shredded into her regular food for being such a good girl!
I pick up a few pounds every week for my girls, one is a blue nose pitbull and the other is a cocker spaniel that is paralyzed from the waist down.
My GF and I both noticed after a few weeks of mixing in chicken with every meal that both their fur got noticeably softer!
“Play with it yourself”. That’s what she said
Great content! ...And then I started paying attention to the dog's expressions!
Just started following you Joel here in New Zealand. All of your comments based around your Arkansas hunting is relevant to our hunting here in New Zealand. Our season runs from 1st Saturday in May until end of June or July depending on which region you hunt in. Really enjoying your shows Thankyou
Awesome, welcome aboard! New Zealand is on my bucket list.
I totally agree with u buddy. I blow the same exact Mondo LTS model and it does not sound as good as it does when I have the tone board turned up or down. Any other was just don’t sound or feel right. Especially with a call that takes a lot of air and experience to blow as it is. Good video bud
This is excellent. I’m very new to waterfowl hunting with only having a single hunt under my belt. This video is such a help. Thank you!
T Hen great! Glad it helps. More calling videos coming soon.
You have a wonderful channel, thanks for the help.
Thank you! Happy to help!
This is my opinion you’ve got to be able to read ducks and see how they react. Every flock is different just as every duck is different. Think about this some are very vocal coming and like to be called whereas others not like that give him a slight feed call and bam gone to the next county. I personally think you got to react to what the ducks are doing. Always a good practice is less is more feed call single quack and a very soft 3-4 note series. Listen to ducks on a pond and hear those sounds to mimic them on the water.
Thank you. That was very helpful. This is my first Waterfowl season. So much to learn
You're very welcome!
Great content have also shared it on my Facebook group duck and goose Scotland
Thanks I appreciate it!
I am a terrible caller and they all call me out on it. However, I make it up with scouting :) Know where the birds want to be and you really don't need to call often.
That dog is awesome.
On point Joel!! Great advice!
Joel, you are the best. Thank you for your honest , straight forward approach. Your concise, erudite explanation of some of the nuances of a disease that some rough North Americans seem to be afflicted with is greatly appreciated by us nukel drggerz. May God Bless you and yours!
Yeah, it's kind of a disease! lol. Thanks for your comment and encouragement! God Bless!
That was a wonderful message. You gave me a lot of information I have never heard before. I think I feel better my own calling. Thank you.
That’s great! Thanks for watching and for the nice comment.
Your hound dog! Shes just waiting on you to shoot them specs
Excellent video! Thank you very much for the tips! I would love to see a video in the future of what calls or sound you use in different situations. Thank you and God bless!
Glad to know my 870 isn't the only one that looks like its spent more time in the field than in the safe.
Lars Anderson yeah, that gun has been through a lot!
I learned something new today...thanks bud.
Mission accomplished! Thanks for watching.
That pup is ready to go!
Joel: Duck call blah blah blah
Dog: Stop talkin' and start shootin' I've got em insight
Very good tips .never even consider how i was holding the call .
Indie looks like a body builder
Man I was grunting for the longest time because people kept saying you’ve gotta use your voice too and I did that from about age 12 to 15 then we got in a lease with these old guys who could make a duck kill it’s self in the air lol and whenever the ducks got slow I’d just talk to them and get advice and practice in between flocks
Yeah, I've heard that a lot. I don't know why some people tell folks to grunt in their mallard call! "Make a duck kill itself"- that's a good line!
Wonderful video as usual Joel.
Thank you.
Do you have any duck blind plans for construction to share with the group? I like the simplicity of the blind in your video.
God bless.
I do have a video that we shot footage for that’s about how we do our different blinds. I was planning to put it together and upload later in the spring.
I had a guy tell me how bad my calling was while calling way out to a flock of 40+ mallards. 3 minutes later the whole flock was locked up feet stretched out to land. Worst duck caller in the world is a hen mallard lol.
Thanks for that, one thing you dont notice is your call sounds the same each way you hold it, but you hear it differently because you are listening with your ears, you should listen to your call through your head not with your ears, it should sound like you are making a duck quack with your mouth. The call is just to project the sound outward. If you pinch up your tongue in the back of your throat and make a quack that way it should sound exactly like when you blow your call. Also after a while you will notice that a proper duck call is just a low buzz then you will retune all your duck calls to get the correct buzz instead of an actual duck call sound. If you get them near enough it's near enough. And yeah that sounded like a great call, just adding some fluff to how to get ducks to respond to the call. Also buzzes dont echo
matt bugg Been duck hunting and duck calling for over 40 years and, all due respect...what? I’m not a hater or a troll, Matt, I promise, but I don’t understand most of what you said, but I’m willing to expand my mind and learn. Listening with head vs ears? “After a while you will notice that a proper duck call is just a low buzz then you will retune all your duck calls to get the correct buzz instead of an actual duck call sound.” Not sure what you’re saying here. My duck calls sound like ducks. Again, not hating/trolling, but interested to understand what you’re getting at. Right now, I don’t get it! 🦆🦆👍🏽👍🏽
It was an experience I had that changed how I blow duck calls one year it was really cold and we were hunting a river with ice chunks in it as me and my partner were too cold to really duck hunt and were more interested in the coffee a group of ducks landed in the mix right next to us and instead of hearing quack quack we were hearing a buzz buzz. After that whenever i hear ducks its just a buzz at different paces instead of and actual quack sound. So if you tune your calls to where they sound ducky all of them kinda do the buzz with the Reed vibration. The proper air presentation makes this happen but tuning your call so that the buzz and the quack sounds correct makes a difference. Its two different tones. And there is about 5 things you tune a duck call to do, buzz quack, feed, rasp and squeal. Everything the video shows is awesome. And everyone is different but the buzz is like built into a call and should be toned to what the birds do also.
good evening. i need your help to learn how to call ducks well. is it possible to have tutorials and which lure to buy? thanks
So any advice on blowing a cut-down (Mondo) would be very helpful. Are you able to describe how you are controlling your air? This year I switched to a cut-down and I feel like it takes much more air and I haven’t got much control. It sounds pretty monotone to me. Any more advice would be much appreciated.
Cold Friday I have had a few others say the same to me. Got it on my list of videos to do.
Surviving Duck Season good deal. I’m in Louisiana and I don’t know anyone else personally that uses one. I’ve blown Haydell’s and Duck Commander double reeds my whole life. I love the pure ducky sound that comes from a correctly blown cut-down but like I said I’m having trouble. Thanks
Took me years to figure it out. More pressure faster quacks is the key almost like a BARK . Work your daiphram hard. Get the BARK down then finesse from there. Now I can blow my Mondo 2B softer than my Mirco hen. 2B favorite call by far !!!! Dont give up.
Awesome vid
Thank you!
Your next video should be how your properly clean rust off your gun.
Neal Gorman haha I know right!
Great video
Thanks!
Hi, I am nisar from Pakistan, we are unable to attract mallard and wigeons duck through calls, any solution plz
Best regards
When doing a feeding call what sounds are you blowing into the call ?
Jason Barras depending the type of sound I’m making... but either tic tic tic.... or tuck tuck tuck... Dugga dugga dugga for a faster chuckle.
Hey I have an off subject question but I need help. What does it mean if there are 5-10,000 snows in a big field but they are in 3 different feeds within the field. They are constantly getting up and flying changing groups and landing in front of each other more than normal. I hope this makes sense but what I’m mostly asking is why are they flying so much and landing with the other groups and what does it mean?
Turtleee I see them doing that when they have nearly fed the field out. Most times you see them leap frogging each other to get ahead and get the new feed.
Surviving Duck Season so should I still set up there? It is about a mile from their roost and when they get up they fly over that field every day and feed.
Turtleee it really depends on how many birds, how big the field, and how fast they are feeding it out. My experience is that if there are a lot of birds feeding, they will have it fed out in 3 or 4 days. As a rule of thumb, we watch the birds use a spot for 2 days in a row and the set up there on the third day. Will they use it longer? Sometimes... but every day past day 3 decreases your chance of them coming.
Surviving Duck Season our birds almost never go to the same field twice. I was thinking about setting up there just because I know for a fact they will fly over us. There are 3 other fields next to it we have access to as well. They sure are tricky!
So then how and what is best way to learn how to blow from diaphragm and opening throat?
Surviving Duck Season
Indi is going come on Dad, what ducks are you seeing? I cant see any...
Do you have a calling session on goose calling
Not yet... I am going to do one for Speckle belly soon.
Is that a legendary cut down?
Mondo
Dogs going dude why aren't you getting me some of these birds. First a new called should stay with a double reed call they are easier to use just starting out. And new callers should be support callers if in a group of guys that can call. Don't over do it and stay down you don't need to hang out of the blind to call ducks. Keep your tongue up on the roof of your mouth and keep the pressure steady yes diaphragm manipulation is something you have to learn it's not just blowing into the call. Individuals that were in band and played horned instruments are pretty good at calling ducks and geese. Recently went duck and goose hunting and two of us did the calling we turned both ducks and geese many times and we didn't over do it. If your in a spot that the ducks want to be then calling will be minimal. The later in the season that's where good calling really makes a difference. Practice practice practice call while your driving around town sure people will think your crazy but you get practice in when you can.
I think I sound good in real life, bad on video, but everyone says I’m good so idk
You always sound a little different to others(and on video) than you do yourself.
What kind of call is that?
When you are doing a cadence what do you say in the call
I’ve got two videos on how to call. They show the basics of how to hold the call, air control, and how to make the calls. Here’s a link to part 1 ua-cam.com/video/1OI7VeI4-Z0/v-deo.html
Here’s part 2 ua-cam.com/video/0l3WoBLBM-A/v-deo.html
i’m never gonna be able to call lmao i can’t use my diaphragm and i call outta my throat
What Call is that?
My call sound nothing like yours not even close
lets not forget that guy that keeps on over calling and doesn’t know when to quit . less is more in my opion .
I watch ur videos all the times...not a fan of those cut down calls
Jeremy Wilson thanks for watching! Yeah I wasn’t a fan either till I got good on it, and saw how the ducks respond. Like most calls, it’s a tool that works well in certain places.
Don’t post up a video of teaching others how to get better at calling if you suck at calling.
Very true! There's way too much of that out there.