Open Reed Calls
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bearmanric
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i use a tooth mainly. working the reed middle to the tip. whole reed with lip's when getting on it for bear. Rick
badtothebone
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I use my canine right tooth. Lightly.
My first wife only had one tooth, right in the middle. It worked fine.
She was handy when I needed to open a can of beans.
My first wife only had one tooth, right in the middle. It worked fine.
She was handy when I needed to open a can of beans.
badtothebone
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You're killin' me!
badtothebone
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You're killin' me!
badtothebone
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Good one.
carvercalls
Custom Call Maker and Retired PM Staff
With a distress I use lips, with a howler I use a tooth on the reed..
SDHowler
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Instructions for open reed calls are difficult to write up, I feel that callers use a variety of ways to produce their calling sounds. Each caller blows the calls they use differently and they vary the call placement out from the center or the side of their mouth, to produce a variety of sounds such as howls or distress cries to entice the predators.
Most of the open reed calls are blown in a similar fashion. Place the reed portion of the call, into your mouth, with your upper teeth and lips resting on the reed up toward the rubber rings with the barrel or open end of the call pointed away from your mouth. With my calling, the call blows easier with the upper teeth and lips against the reed (rather than only your lips) as you blow into the calls tone barrel. Cup your hand(s) over the barrel end of the call, this will allow you to control or mute the sounds you create. Don’t blow the call by puffing out your cheeks. Blow the call with air from your chest or diaphragm, this will cause the reed to vibrate and make various sounds. For the rabbit distress sounds, start with the hand closed over the barrel end and force the air into call, saying wwaaa, wwaaa, wwaaa, wwaaa, while opening and closing the hand(s) as you blow into the call. Each squall or breath should be distinct while blowing the call. Imagine you're the rabbit that was just struck by an owl or an eagle and in great pain. Attempt to produce various screams of hurt and pain to entice the oncoming predator. Lower pitched cries like jackrabbit can be produced with your teeth and lips placed up against the call's rubber rings. Higher pitched cottontail cries will be produced when the call is blown out toward the end or tip of the reed and toneboard.
Practice blowing your call while pulling it out and back into your mouth, noting the rise and fall of the sound pitches produced. Remember to use your teeth and lips against reed while forcing air into the call. You will note low pitch sounds produced up toward the rubber rings and a higher pitches as you pull the call out of your mouth. Blowing harder or softer will also change the tempo and pitch of the sound produced. A short blast of air will simulate a coyote bark. For the howl, position the your lips up toward the rubber rings, to begin with a lower pitched sound, but as the call is pulled out of your mouth with an increase of air volume, you will notice a higher pitch to the sound. These pitch changes will allow you to produce various howling sounds or cries. With some simple hand movements at the end of the call, you can produce a wavering type of sound to the distress cries or howls. Practice makes perfect and you will soon learn how to make the various sounds for calling many animals.
Steve
Dakota Coyote Howler & Coyote Calling
Most of the open reed calls are blown in a similar fashion. Place the reed portion of the call, into your mouth, with your upper teeth and lips resting on the reed up toward the rubber rings with the barrel or open end of the call pointed away from your mouth. With my calling, the call blows easier with the upper teeth and lips against the reed (rather than only your lips) as you blow into the calls tone barrel. Cup your hand(s) over the barrel end of the call, this will allow you to control or mute the sounds you create. Don’t blow the call by puffing out your cheeks. Blow the call with air from your chest or diaphragm, this will cause the reed to vibrate and make various sounds. For the rabbit distress sounds, start with the hand closed over the barrel end and force the air into call, saying wwaaa, wwaaa, wwaaa, wwaaa, while opening and closing the hand(s) as you blow into the call. Each squall or breath should be distinct while blowing the call. Imagine you're the rabbit that was just struck by an owl or an eagle and in great pain. Attempt to produce various screams of hurt and pain to entice the oncoming predator. Lower pitched cries like jackrabbit can be produced with your teeth and lips placed up against the call's rubber rings. Higher pitched cottontail cries will be produced when the call is blown out toward the end or tip of the reed and toneboard.
Practice blowing your call while pulling it out and back into your mouth, noting the rise and fall of the sound pitches produced. Remember to use your teeth and lips against reed while forcing air into the call. You will note low pitch sounds produced up toward the rubber rings and a higher pitches as you pull the call out of your mouth. Blowing harder or softer will also change the tempo and pitch of the sound produced. A short blast of air will simulate a coyote bark. For the howl, position the your lips up toward the rubber rings, to begin with a lower pitched sound, but as the call is pulled out of your mouth with an increase of air volume, you will notice a higher pitch to the sound. These pitch changes will allow you to produce various howling sounds or cries. With some simple hand movements at the end of the call, you can produce a wavering type of sound to the distress cries or howls. Practice makes perfect and you will soon learn how to make the various sounds for calling many animals.
Steve
Dakota Coyote Howler & Coyote Calling
coloradobob
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Hey bttb,
She wasn't 3' tall with a flat head that you could rest your beer on was she? If it is I think I dated her once. By the way the tooth is gone, she broke it biting a tire on a parked car and can't call worth a lick anymore. LOL
She wasn't 3' tall with a flat head that you could rest your beer on was she? If it is I think I dated her once. By the way the tooth is gone, she broke it biting a tire on a parked car and can't call worth a lick anymore. LOL
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TonyTebbe
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Originally Posted By: chazwho2I use both, sometimes I bounce back and forth between the two in the same breath.
I do the same thing. I use my lip mainly, but will drop a tooth down on the reed to change the pitch up, all within the same breath. I really makes for a rich sound and helps add panic.
Tony
I do the same thing. I use my lip mainly, but will drop a tooth down on the reed to change the pitch up, all within the same breath. I really makes for a rich sound and helps add panic.
Tony