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Mouth call maintenance

Started by alclark2, May 04, 2014, 03:06:09 PM

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Gooserbat

wash with warm tap water, toothpick the reeds and let them air dry.  UV light is worse on the reeds than anything else, but a dry place is important too.  The fridge is a good place, to store them, but I keep mine in my vest and stored in my coat closet. I get two years out of a call.

I know as a call maker this sounds like a plug to sell calls but it's true.  Just remember by nature of material used a diaphragm call is a disposable product and when it wears out replace it.  If you don't your calling will suffer and you could develop bad habits from trying to manipulate a stretched or weak call.  That said there are a lot of thing already mentioned that will prolong the life of the call. 
NWTF Booth 1623
One of my personal current interests is nest predators and how a majority of hunters, where legal bait to the extent of chumming coons.  However once they get the predators concentrated they don't control them.

Terry

It seems like placing something in the reeds would prematurely stretch them out.