Daisy cutter or short barrel?
 

Anyone have any experience with any of the high end calls not just RNT but all of them. Are they really worth 140 bones? Jag curious on your input too being a call maker!!

I bought a cane duck call from Outdoor Expo for $15 and a woody call for $8 and I love em. Sound twice as good with it as I did with my RNT. I bought a RNT Microhen and it wasn't for me. Sold it to meaux fishing. 2 other buddies have em and love em. Just picky when it comes to my call. Asterisk-Rich has a daisy cutter and it seems like he gave up duck hunting to live in NYC. :eek: Maybe shoot him a PM and see if he might be interested in selling it to u.

single reed calls are tough and too loud for down here...a duck has heard every loud azz call coming south

wish you could run the calls before you buy them...

All i can say is dr-85

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Im not against it just lookin for different opinions on different calls and curious if anyone uses the high end ones

dr 85 is like the glock of duck calls...but yes Shawn I know your looking for something different that might suite you

I bought a big guys best widowmaker acrylic...sucks. Just not my type. Then my son broke it. sucks.

I hear ya. DR-85 is pretty much all I blow when I am in the blind, but I still end up buying 2-3 different calls and trying them out every season anyway. U boys out there in the Lake Chuck should be blowing those old school "Cajun" duck calls. My buddy has a few of them he got when his grandpa passed away and I love em. Any of u LC guys know where I can find one? The sticker on the one he has says they were made in LC.

Exactly, i like the 85 as a back up

I like my microhen... it is the Cocobolo wood one .. not sure I would pay 140 for a call but maybe if I had the extra cash laying around. It was definitely worth what I paid for it

Dr-85 is deff my number 1...I have the short barrel and It stays in my center console....I have a zink PH 2 its my other favorite call...between them two I got all I need...but I'd suggest looking at the Ph 2

Been blowing a dr-85 for 15-16 years. Dats my go to. The best sounding call on the market. My dad gave me a Cajun call when I was little. Wish I could find it. But man dat ting would stick when it got wet.

Wish I could help you out Shawn but never had any high end calls....like everyone else though I use the Dr-85. Maybe I should try something different since apparently they hear the same call for the whole coast of Louisiana.....I do use Duck Commander calls on occasions.

Look on Ebay I got a few off there for my collection.

I use the Primos Wench ,before that it was Duck Commanders.

Man thats my close in call...dr 85 for rackin'. But I love the zink, wouldn't mind trying the acrylic...just can justify it right now.

I actually like haydel dirty rice for the squeal...

X2 on the WENCH plus it is less than 20 bucks.

I found my Cajun duck call on Ebay and it was made in Lake Charles. Bootsie begged me for that call and i finally gave it to him and than he gave it to fish.
how messed up is that?

man get you a yentzen!! Groves Texas

i annoy the crap outta my neighbors with that loud single reed. The neighbors dog starts going crazy and she yells in spanish and beats on the wall.

No one gave up duck hunting. I'll be back in a few days to teach you and lil mookie how to catch some trout and prepare you guys for all that fantasy beat downs that yall are about to receive from "Doctor Dic kins"

you back for good or a visit?

Just for a visit...Im gonna fly in for the Salty Cajun Tournament screw around at the house for a few days and than come back up here.

i guide 59 days a year in a freshwater marsh south of lake arthur. i blow a $40 call and killed 389 mallards last year. It's more knowing when to call than sounding exactly like a duck and $140 call will not help you kill more birds. In Louisiana we kill mostly grays, teal, wigeon, and pintails, so a whistle is better most of the time anyway

Same here the acrylic is amazing

its not necessarily about that. Some people just like nice things.

Any haydels mallard call or a primos wench sounds as much like a duck as anything else. Single reed competition calls won't work any better, no matter the price

LOL, I had one plus those old P.S. Olt when I was like 15...

I also have the Haydels 'red leg' which is easy to blow.

I sat in on the call competition at the expo and not to toot my own horn, but probably could have placed with my primos shaved reed speck. I didn't find the other calls to be anything special, at least sound wise. Blowing it might be a different story.

U shouldn't need a call or decoys! :rotfl: Quack Quack

LOL!

389 mallards :eek: not too shabby. not that the call matters, but whats your $40 ringer??

And yes really a good grey duck imitation with a mallard call and a whistle is all we need here anyway...Its just so bad a.. when you turn them suckers with the ol quacker

They are just for show......:p

Quack, Quack, Quack....

Later in the year all I mostly blow is that 'high roller' call that Primos makes. Well worth the 15 bucks.

Faulk
 

Those are Faulk duck calls. Don't know if they still make them or not.

The last 2 years I guided, I used a Yentzen and it worked very well. I will NOT spend more than $40 on a duck call. Sorry. Dad and Dudley were cousins and when I was young got most of them free.

Yentzen is a great call to use for greys it sounds legit to me...I have one but never use it...

it might not even be $40. the old haydels big barrell. it's black and i don't thing they have made it in several years

No these arent Faulks. They are called "Cajun Duck Calls"

Used to have one of those....lost it though.

Hell, having a $1600 SBE 2 doesnt mean i'll kill more ducks but it sure does give me a fighting chance lol

I do agree with a whistle though, very effective

Maybe if you had a Browning it would....

Miss? Jk

No miss all hit.....lol

Neither one will make what you call "calling sound better". Wayne will do all the calling. Hes a boss at calling. He taught me and you everything.

I have to agree wit the Ebay gig. can always find the good calls for real cheap

Haydel's VTM-90 and pintail whistle allways gets the job done for me.Only call at acehole's and elbows when you got em on a string let em come:)

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Don't have a daisy but do have an original and shortbarrel. Original stays in the gun cabnet and shortbarrel on lanyard. Single reed calls can be soft if you don't try to put 120psi through them. My suggestion if the shortbarrel in acrylic Shawn but both of mine were presents.;)