 | Craig McDonald |
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| Three-Time Canadian World Goose Calling Champion, member of Drake Waterfowl "Elite Team", and GK Calls Pro Staff. |
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| Vocalization | Comment |
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| Cluck | 'Dinner call!! Shortened down honk! Clucks kill geese and are generally the most used call by hunters and geese. Clucks followed by moans are bread and butter hunting calls!' |
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| | Venue: Hunting, Contest |
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| | Situation: Greeting, Comeback |
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| Honk | 'Honk is the shorten version of a hail call. Seldom used, it is not as aggressive or powerful as a hail. It is the basis for goose calling; in general most notes are based from a honk.' |
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| | Venue: Hunting, Contest |
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| | Situation: Greeting |
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| Moan | 'The second part of the deadly cluck and moan. Very practical call for many aspects of goose calling. Mixed in with clucks it is used in almost all situations.' |
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| | Venue: Hunting, Contest |
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| | Situation: Greeting, Comeback, Laydown |
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| Murmur | 'Low end call used when geese are working close. Mixed in with clucks and moans is a nice finesse call, can be used on quite days or days when other calls are blowing the geese out!' |
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| | Venue: Hunting, Contest |
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| | Situation: Laydown |
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| Double-Cluck | 'A high and low cluck or in general two different sounding clucks (ook ick)' |
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| | Venue: Hunting, Contest |
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| | Situation: Greeting, Comeback |
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| Spit Note | 'An aggressive comeback call or long distance attention (greeting) call.' |
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| | Venue: Hunting, Contest |
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| | Situation: Greeting, Comeback |
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| Hail Call | 'Attention call or long distance call is used to attract geese or begin a contest routine. Not used very often in hunting situations.' |
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| | Venue: Hunting, Contest |
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| | Situation: Greeting |
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| Train | 'Making the mouth cavity smaller by pushing your tongue up and forcing air across it will vibrate the reed enough to get what is called the train sound. I have used this sound in almost all situations, as this is truly a goose sound. At times this call will turn birds on a dime if you let them get by you first and then hit them with a train.' |
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| | Venue: Hunting, Contest |
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| | Situation: Greeting, Comeback, Laydown |
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| Willis | 'A goosey sound that reminds me of the tube call. To me it is a variation of a moan that works nice when geese are floating in or circling your spread. Choke the call down and say “koo” hard.' |
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| | Venue: Hunting, Contest |
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| | Situation: Greeting, Laydown |
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| Grunt Honk | 'When you use voice inflection by humming or grunting the first part of your note, you get a guttural sounding honk.' |
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| | Venue: Hunting, Contest |
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| | Situation: Greeting |
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| Buzz Cluck | 'A high pitch raspy cluck, It is a different sounding cluck that stands out when done right. Mixed in with other clucks and moans or done alone it is a sound I use more often. To me it sounds like a young small goose that’s full of corn.' |
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| | Venue: Hunting, Contest |
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| | Situation: Greeting |
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| Clear Honk | 'When you blow through your call with out any voice inflection you get a clear smooth honk that is usually higher in pitch' |
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| | Venue: Hunting, Contest |
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| | Situation: Greeting |
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| Push Moan | 'This is an aggressive moan made by extending the end of your honk; you would blow through that note after the reed breaks over and drag it out a bit!' |
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| | Venue: Hunting, Contest |
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| | Situation: Comeback |
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| Quick Spit | 'Similar to a quick cluck but higher pitch in sound. Another call that can be aggressive as a come back or attention call or soften up for a greeting call.' |
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| | Venue: Hunting, Contest |
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| | Situation: Greeting, Comeback |
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| Quiver Cry | 'Basically a spit moan with a shake or wobble to it: Can be heard by geese on occasion when approaching live birds in a field or on water. I use this as a comeback to mimic birds coming into land, this makes the birds you are calling curious, thinking other birds just landed.' |
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| | Venue: Hunting, Contest |
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| | Situation: Comeback |
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