Hale Fire Gobble Call

[MEbeardlover]

Came across this forum while searching for tips and input about the Hale Fire. Now a member!

I picked up a Hale Fire last week for the upcoming spring season. I am new to turkey hunting (last year was first year), and I do not have any experience with any type of waterfowl calls. So this is my first venture into this type of call.

I have made progress but have a ways to go. Couple of suggestions: 1. work on the cadence and rhythm first, and go slow. Unless you have significant experience on reed calls, I think it will take some time. 2. hand placement and hand movement are far more important than the directions state. My hands are not big, so I figured I cannot position them like they do on some of the videos on youtube. As soon as I started trying different hand positions, I immediately began to get sounds that are more like gobbles.

As I practice, I keep thinking that it does not sound much like a gobble. But I came up from the basement one time and my wife commented that it sounded pretty good. I am wondering if it is one of those deals like the sound of your voice, sounds different to you than it does to others. Also, I think it will sound better from a distance.

Would like to hear from others on this.

[captin_hook]

My hunting partner just got one of them about a week ago. He's been practicing about a hour a day and finally got it. He's a very experienced mouth caller for waterfoul and turkeys and from what I got from him , this is a tough call to master. He did say that your hand movements are very important and he knows when he got the sound right when he feels it in his lips. I'm not even going to attempt it. Lol.

[outdoors]

   I've tried FOR weaks and almost threw it out, I didn't  still have it
        All I do is just look at it. ?

[TauntoHawk]

I can get an ok sound out of the hale fire  but not great, I've worked on it a good bit. better with a mouth call but not loud enough to reach out there like I'd like.

Thinking about trying the haint but hear its even harder to learn.

[Addicted to Gobblin]

I have the haint and it is no easy task to learn, no where near as easy as they make it out to be. I did manage to practice enough to get a decent gobble out of it and it will bring a gobbler to you if you can ever get the right hand position as well as lip and tongue position.  The flextone gobble call is easier to use in my opinion, only problem is the latex wears out.

[Houndstooth Game Calls]

Hale fire is the easiest to run and the loudest! DnD haint is the hardest but the most realistic! Learning curve is steep but I found the hale fire pretty simple. My ¢2..