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[fabsroman]

Originally Posted by skeet

You know KT..I have all kinds of goose calls.. Even have some of the current ones. Although I like the Eastern Shoreman calls I have..In my estimation they are all really unnecessary. The Old OLT 77 and Olt 800 calls worked for years..still work and will continue to work. Most of the high end calls are made not to lure geese into your spread but to lure yer money away from your pocket to theirs.. Especially the plastics..even the acrylics. Hell they just make 'em in a mould. Now they sound good and people go all out learning to use 'em and all.. but the fact is many of those calls are designed and made to use in calling contests etc. Make people think you have the next new best call and oy vey..here comes the money. Even Sean Mann's calls were designed originally for the Eastern Shore goose hunting seasons. He, like many of us, guided. His calls were made out of wood. Many don't even know where the sound board and reeds all came from. But he won a goose calling contest and now he no longer works at the bank..He is an entrepreneur. More power to him and the others who want you to think you ain't got the best...if ya ain't got theirs. Never entered a calling contest..but I and many like me were in on the demise of hundreds of thousands of geese...with the old cheap lowly 6 dollar calls. We used what worked. We were workin killin geese...for the money and for the hunting. We couldn't afford to go rent property to hunt waterfowl. Not dissing you man...just saying...it ain't the call...its the caller. BTW go HUNTING...that work thingie will kill ya At least that's what I told my wife.

Agreed. I have killed more geese with my $20 Knight & Hale flute call than I have killed with my Tim Grounds whatever it is called that ran me $80 at the PA hunting show. So much of hunting nowadays is marketing, with a bunch of poop out there that really doesn't even work. Heck, almost everything is marketing nowadays. 7 years ago I almost broke down and bought a new Benelli SBE because of the new recoil system and the larger trigger guard for gloved hands. Thought about it. Thought about it some more. Then I figured I was out of my mind to drop another $1,300 on a gun for just those two reasons when I hadn't had any trouble with my gun in the first place. Then, I thought about buying the Benelli Sport II to replace by Beretta 391 Teknys Gold. I shoot the Beretta really well, but thought it would be nice to have an inertia operated auto for clays that was easy to clean like my SBE. Same thing happened. After I thought a lot about it, it wasn't worth the $1,500 for the amount of time I spend cleaning the Beretta.

There is always something new and "better" out there. I would guess that 50% of it is just BS.

KT - work sucks, but the way it is nowadays I'm sure that most people would trade hunting for job security right now.