Just caught this post.
My uncle Ken Heuser and his brother invented the first succesful pheasant call. It was marketted under the name "Har-Ken Pheasant Call" and the rights were sold to Lohman or Faulks in the late 50's or early 60's. My father would turn the barrels from walnut blocks, I spent many evenings sitting by the lathe talking with my dad as he turned them.
My dad just passed away and I found one of the calls in his old tackle box. We used to sit on the back porch and call them right into the yard. There were three basic calls, the locator, fight and flush call. The reed is pretty dead on the call I have. There were some 45 rpm records that they made to teach you to use the call.
They really worked but a good bird dog was alot more effective and we always had a good dog so just used it very little.
AWS
