Noisy Rattling Calls

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nickmyron

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I was just wondering if there are any good ways to keep calls from rattling when they are on a lanyard? My calls rattle around when i goto grab/let go of a call, and when adjusting for a shot they dangle and clang.

Just wondered how you guys deal with that?
I know i could always just put them in my pocket with no lanyard but i like the convience of them on a lanyard.....

Thanks

Nick~

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nickmyron,
I just used single landyards and put one in each layer of clothing. (call #1 next to skin, call #2 between t-shirt and heavy shirt, call #3 between heavy shirt and jacket, etc.) Pleasure to have such a fine young hunter like you on this board. Your Dad should be mighty proud. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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[qb]nickmyron,
I just used single landyards and put one in each layer of clothing. (call #1 next to skin, call #2 between t-shirt and heavy shirt, call #3 between heavy shirt and jacket, etc.) Pleasure to have such a fine young hunter like you on this board. You Dad should be mighty proud. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif [/qb]
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Thanks for the tip Ky-ote, and for the compliment

Its nice to hear from fellow Oregonian hunters /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Thats a good idea ill give it a try!

Have you been doing any good as far as the coyote hunting goes this year?

Nick~
 
I've got the same problem, carrying 2 howlers and two distress call.

I haven't found any yet, but there is a "liquid rubber" or something to that effect you can get in the hardware store. Used for dipping tool handles and such in. Like the plastic coating on a pair of pliers.

I plan on getting some, plugging the end of the calls, and dipping it in to the mouthpiece. Should quiet them down nicely.
 
Should quiet them down nicely
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AAAARRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!?!?!?!?!?!

Yeah this should deaden the sound (take all the crispness away) your calls make completely!

It makes me sad inside, to think of one of my flame maple calls living in an envelope of orange rubbery plastic... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Krusty
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nickmyron,
I only hunt in Eastern Oregon during my October and November vacations. Have never had much luck on this side. I did kill 52 coyotes on the east side though in 11 days of hunting. (215 calls, 84 called, 52 killed) You are going to have to get your Dad to take you on a trip over there sometime. To bad Christmas break is over or that would have been a good time when you could have strung some days together. Something to look forward to next year. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
davr,
The rubbery product you mentioned is called "Plasti Dip". It comes in yellow, blue, red or black. The hardware department of any store should carry it. You might just try it a little first because like Krustyklimber said, it will have to deaden the sound some.
 
I use Crown Royal bags to slip my calls into. I usually carry 2 calls, my Brad H. howler and a deer horn call he made me.
 
I put all my calls on lanyards. I generally put 3 calls on one and use wood beads to separate them enough that they don't bang/clank around.

I keep my howlers on separate lanyards, and put under my first layer of clothes.

Here's a photo, on how I keep the separated, as I was having a fit with them banging around. Note: I loop the cord through the last beads, twice, as I can cinch them tight. The clips allow each call to swing freely, and allow the rest of the lanyard, beads, and calls to fold tight in my hand when calling.

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Originally posted by Krustyklimber:
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Should quiet them down nicely
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AAAARRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!?!?!?!?!?!

Yeah this should deaden the sound (take all the crispness away) your calls make completely!

It makes me sad inside, to think of one of my flame maple calls living in an envelope of orange rubbery plastic... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Krusty
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Krusty, take a pill......

I am talking about plastic calls, critr call and the like.

I doubt a thin coating of rubber on the OUTSIDE of the barrel would have much more effect at deadening the crispness of the call than the hand holding it does. I could be wrong, but, you know what, at a whopping $7 per call, I'm think I can afford the risk involved. :rolleyes:

In the future when I begin buying more expensive custom calls, I doubt the Cronk Howler or Killer call I plan to purchase will be adorned with a rubber outer coating.
 
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm............ an armor coated Cronk howler. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm........... could be interesting. Should stand up to those really tough coyotes. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
As far as lanyards go, a duck call lanyard with 2-4 drops on it work quite nicely to seperate calls and keeps banging to a minimum.
 
Krusty, take a pill......
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Sorry bro, if I came off a little excited... I had just spent about three hours final sanding a beautiful wooden call.
The thought of covering up 15+ hours of my work with plasti-dip just caught me offguard.

I have used cloth tape on a plastic call body, and lost much of it's volume and clarity.

I make wooden calls, and I have learned a thing or two about how to make them sound good, and how to make them sound bad.

It is my opinion that you'd lose a significant amount of sound quality, all just to solve a problem that doesn't really exist.

That is why I hate lanyards. Calls go in my BDU pockets.
But again this is just my personal opinion.

Hey they are your calls, do with them as you please /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif ... I just won't watch.

Krusty
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I simply stick my calls in a shirt pocket. Am I overlooking the obvious here? When I get onto a stand I'll take them out of the pocket and start calling. If they are banging into each other and making noise while you are calling, then you are moving way to much.

If I'm wearing more than one lanyard of calls, I can tuck one in a shirt pocket and one in the top of the shirt. That'll keep them from banging around while walking in to a stand. In the case of a button-front shirt I'll also slip them in between the buttons and under the shirt.
 
I do the same as Broncoglenn, I carry 2 or 3 calls on lanyards and just seperate em by sticking one in a shirt pocket or down my shirt etc.When I sit down to call I will pull them all out.
 
There seem to be lots of good ideas one might try here. I will have to agree with Krusty and say that I shuddered when someone metnioned using the rubber dip stuff on some of those finely made wooden calls.

Lanyards have always seemed to be a big headache for me. Maybe I'm not trained properly, but my calls are "usually" not carried on lanyards. They are placed in the pockets of my coveralls or, in warmer weather, in my shirt pocket.

Unless it is extremely cold--like below zero or lower, I wear my J.C. Penney's white coveralls on top of my insulated Advantage coveralls up here in North Dacolder land in the winter. That way I have four chest pockets for calls. If I am wearing my insulated Cabela's Snow Shadow coveralls, I had two chest pockets sewed onto those plus I use the side slash pockets for carrying calls.

My Tally Ho and my Bill Austin Howler are always carried in the outside, upper left-hand chest pocket. The Tally Ho slips right into the bell end of the Austin Howler and takes very little room. When I take them out to call, they both come out of my pocket, I separate them and if I am only going to use one, the other goes back into my pocket. If I am planning to use both of them, the one I am not using lays on my ground cover (plastic sheeting if it is wet or snowy) or on the ground in front of me in warm, dry situations.

My Pee Wee Critr call is carried in one of those pill-like containers that the original Tally Hos came in to protect the reed and I also carry a closed reed call of some sort in the outside right-hand chest pocket too. My Brad Holzer deer antler call is carried in the left-hand side coverall pocket of my inner coveralls.

I sometimes carry a spare Tally Ho and that will be in the same pocket as my Brad Holzer call.
 
Top pocket of my turkey vest with a shake up hand warmer. I can tell my calls by feel. A warm dry call is a happy call. Even open reeds blow so much nice and easier when the are warm. Mine used to hit my gun stock when I turned my head to scan. I used a duck lanyard, singles layer of clothes this is the best I have found.
 
When it is -20º and the wind is wafting at 10 mph or so, I don't want to be zipping my coveralls open and reaching in between layers of clothing to find the right call. I want it right in my outside coverall pocket. When I start calling in those types of temperatures, I'll just keep the caller in my mouth or alongside my cheek and pull my ski masks up over the whole works to keep the call halfways warm.
 
Nick,
Your tickets for the Portland sportsman show will be at the will call window at the expo as I promised. Just go there to pick them up when you get there. Stop by and say hi. I'll be across from the trophy horns. Bruce Clemans
 
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