Hunting Outdoor

How to Blow a Goose Call

Written by Chris Alan

You must become an expert in many hunting techniques in order to become a successful goose hunter. It would greatly increase your hunting effectiveness if you could combine good calling with decoys and camo. How to blow a goose call or figure out the technique of calling a goose is a challenge for most new hunters. It has never been simpler to call geese. Learning how to blow a goose call properly requires a lot of practice. 

You should be conscious as a beginner hunter that one of the most important “don’ts” of goose calling is excessive calling. Many inexperienced hunters make excessive calls, then wonder why the geese are not drawn to them. It’s sensible that geese are relatively quiet compared to other birds, such as the duck.

Geese don’t merely sit on the ground and call even when feeding. Geese typically call when they see other geese flying in their direction. In a sense, geese call to signal safety and welcome such flying goose formations to join in. In this article, I’ll show you how to blow a goose call, along with some helpful tips and shortcuts for geese hunting. 

History

Nonetheless, David Fuller of Chicago, Illinois, was the first to be given a panted for the goose call in 1885. The call was intended to attract the elusive crane to a shooting range in addition to fooling the geese. The mouthpiece of Fuller’s earliest calls was built of boxwood, and the calls were made of brass and nickel. Incredibly, goose calls have been used for over a century, but if you leave it to a goose hunter, they will find a method to create something that makes the hunt simpler.

What is Needed?

Goose Call

Obviously, a goose call is the most important component of learning how to blow a goose call. The Short Reed Goose calls are the most popular among hunters and are very simple to use. There are a variety of additional goose calls available; in fact, there are even mobile phone applications that mimic goose calls.

In addition to the short reed goose call, goose flute calls are also common since they produce high-quality sounds, although their learning curve is somewhat steeper. They differ in sound quality, the range of loudness and the tone that you can produce.

We suggest skipping the intermediate-level goose calls and spending a good amount of money on a good customized goose call. Most of these manufacturers’ calls are created and designed to sound like a real goose. Once you master the basics and practice consistently, you will be capable of hitting every sound in the manual.

Practice

Goose calling won’t occur overnight and might not even take place throughout the season. The notes and sounds of a goose require a lot of practice to become proficient. The greatest way to get started is to practice regularly. To perfect each cluck and moan, hold the call in your hand, lay it on your lips, and practice as much as you can. You’ll start to develop into a goose caller after skill sets in, which takes time to do.

It might be really irritating to make goose noises. To avoid upsetting your neighbors, it is preferable to practise in a quiet area. However, make sure that you feel at ease wherever you are.

Hand Positioning

In actuality, though, the hands are what allow you to simulate two geese in your call. Imagine screaming at someone while cupping your hands around your mouth; this will have a distinctive volume and tone compared to shouting at someone while covering your lips with your hands. Basically, by using your hands, you’ll be able to call with a more realistic “goosie” sound and imitate several geese at once.

Mouth Positioning

To fully control the volume and intensity of a goose call, you must put your mouth on the tool. Hence, placing the goose call outside your lips is similar to eating something from a jar. This will provide you the variety of movement in your oral cavity needed to produce the burst of air required to break over a goose call. 

Blowing a Goose Call

We have devised a few basic steps below to help you make sure you are sounding like a goose and breaking over the call correctly.

  1. The goose call operates effectively with a reasonable amount of pressure, just like all wind instruments. Before blowing the call, fold both hands on its base. It needs both hands to blow the call since the sound changes depending on the pressure and sounds more natural.

  2. Put the call to your lips and blow a cool breath into the goose call. 

  3. Then, begin by blowing that air while keeping the tip of your tongue against the back of your lower teeth to create the “moan.” You’ll hear a loud moan as the air touches your tongue. Once you have a powerful moan, you can improve your break-over call skills.

  4. You start by blowing a moan, then touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth to produce the honk. This phase is a little challenging to get used to while learning the honk since the middle section of your tongue will block the air passage and cause the reed of the call to “honk.”

Understanding Geese Sounds

It is impossible to ignore the sounds because these are what attract the geese. In order to hunt geese successfully, one must adhere to certain basic sound techniques. A few of these include:

Cluck – To direct the flock toward your decoy spread, perform the cluck, a single note which is a quick, choppy form of a honk. Saying “Gwit, Gwit, Gwit” repeatedly at a rapid tempo causes the cluck. 

Double Cluck – The double cluck is produced by altering hand locations for each note. For one cluck, your hands are open; for the next, they are closed.

Comeback Call – If the geese stray from your decoy spread, you can use the comeback call, a three-note call, to get them to come back. You say “To-it-ha” while holding the note for a brief second to make the comeback call. 

Lay Down Call – The lay-down call is a sequence of single-note moans to get the geese to land. You must shout out “Grrr-Grrr-Grrr” in a low, deep voice to signal a lay-down. 

Tips

  • For the best results, keep your calls simple and easy to understand.

  • You need to keep several different goose sounds on hand.

  • The decoys must have ample room to allow the birds to land.

  • Everyone must maintain discipline, be completely still, and blend in while you’re trying to draw geese.

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