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Speck call help
Looking to buy a speck call for $100 or less. I'd say I'm maybe one step above a beginner, but definitely new to the speck call game. Thought I was getting pretty good... until I started watching some YouTube vids of the comp guys. Not sure how difficult some of the nicer speck calls can be for a spoonbill like me to run. I've heard a ton of good things about Riceland, seems like most people around here that hunt specks hard blow these, but I feel that could be biased since they're a local deal. Looking at the RCC poly now, and the RNT barbelly. Can anyone change my mind?
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riceland poly is a very good call. very easy to operate too. Dont watch pro videos and compare yourself they have been blowing a lot longer than you or me. I've found if I recorded myself and played it back I could see where I need work. hand position is everything when blowing a speck call
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RCC poly is probably your best bang for you buck.
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Just use electronic calls. Super easy and only illegal if you get caught lol
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ILLEGAL??? I would NEVER do anything illegal or unethical while hunting waterfowl.. just for the record lol
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Prejudiced, yes. Chien Kie. Produced in Gueydan by the Saltzmans. Been using one for over 20 years.
These are no nonsense calls. Durable. Best thing is you can talk "spec" with one. The other new calls are good and sound good to me; however, I am not a specklebelly. Duck Festival is this weekend. Go to the Goose Calling contest. You should be able to get a wealth of first hand information there. |
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great sounding calls but not as easy to blow as the rcc's |
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SKG Game Calls in Lafayette makes some nice calls for not much money. I've only heard his duck calls but I'm pretty sure he builds speck calls too.
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I run nothing but redbone goose calls,but I do agree that a Riceland poly is a good product for the price range indicated
I also agree that it is unrealistic to compare yourself to the top shelf guys being that you are just starting out I ran chien caille for 20 years,then started with redbone in the prototype stages in 2006 Just remember that there are many stages one must go through to attain the necessary air control skills needed to run like what is seen on you tube It is a progression,nobody just takes a call from the package and rips off a 90 second comp routine or immediately can mimic a specific goose on the spot,takes time and practice hours---countless---I have lived it |
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If you have the extra money laying around, just get a RedBone. Very realistic sounding calls straight out of the mailbox. Pricey, but in the end, it will be very beneficial. Plus, RedBone sends out an instructional DVD on the How to's. Worth every penny right there. I run a Redbone as well, so I am very biased. But, I was in your position once and then I heard one in the blind... From then on, that's what I wanted to sound like!
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Under 100 go with chien caille. I use a redbone but they are high end but my chien caille is still hanging on my lanyard for backup. I bought my dad a rice land poly for Christmas a couple years and the tone was terrible. He now has a redbone also. If you do get a chien and it's hard to blow mervis will make it blow however you want.
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I don't doubt they will help. I think the rcc acrylic are nice calls. I've blown several polys and personally the tone of a poly just isn't what a chien is. I've been around the speck game a long time. The popular call is the rcc poly. But i'ma for under 100 bones a chien has the better tone. And high end redbone has them all beat hands down no contest.
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Would you all like to know what the best call is? It's the one the caller can work the best and the one he can say he has the most confidence in.
So how how about take these opinions and go from here and start blowing some calls then decide for your self. Personally I got into RCC because I know the guys and hunt with some of them and they have shown me a thing or 2 along the way. I also have an old James Myers that i still use. I'm not the best but I can manipulate the call well enough to trick some birdies. In the end I did it because that's what they taught me with so that's where I am with it. IMO they are the best. But that's all I know really. Good luck and I hope you smack down some generals this yr. Nothing like working them birds and making them do the "Death Turn" as my cousin likes to say right into the decoys. |
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Chien Caille got the best one I've ever used. Mine is the older style and the newer ones are a little different but still very good. Probably find an old one somehwere if you look.
Difficult until you get used to em, but put alot of backpressure on that sucker and if you catch a group of like 4 or less, they seem to like it. The cheap clear plastic Haydel's speck call works very well also, real nasal sounding. Speck calls and a whistle are all I bother bringing out anymore as the widgeon and the speck are the only ones that seem to have anything to say when I talk! |
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