Any Duck Hunters? Need help with the Feed Call

[jhunter77]

Thanks for all the help! Still no luck. To practice like this and not get it I am thinking there is something I am missing.

[Hafernick]

I wouldn't get too hung up on it. If your hail call and come back call are good then for most of the ducks in Texas you will do fine. Although it's not that difficult it doesn't really change most duck hunting situations in Texas.

When you are hunting Mallards primarily is when I have seen the feed call work the best.

[tiny's taxiderm]

I had it down in the later part of last season, pulled my calls out when you posted this thread and guess what, I lost it, gna give er another whirl here in a lil bit. Good luck with it, just a good ol quack always does the trick

[jhunter77]

Well I just broke out a old cheap single reed and I am making progress.....it might be the calls? Still working on it but I am ready to call it a night. I may feed call on the way to work with a different call and see if that helps

[Smart]

3 weeks ain't long enough....It took me almost 6 months to get it good back in college. Keep practicing.

Don't try to learn a long rolling feed call all at once...that's the end game. Take baby steps. Do a short two note cadence. Tick-ah Tick-ah

Keep doing it and keep doing it till you get it or your lips fall off. Then add another note to the cadence and then another note every time making sure you got it down. Keep building it up until it eventually just rolls off your tongue literally.....you'll put it all together but its a process for the average hunter.

I like to tell folks to start with the short notes and get it down because, like some said above, I rarely use a long rolling feedcall. That's something you hear mostly from a group of mallards overhead. I like the short two or three note sequences starting and stopping while mixing in a quack or two. And I don't use that sequence that much either. Go listen at a park with a pond ....If you hear a feed chuckle, when mallards are on the water, it is in a few short quiet sequences...

That my 2 cents...and that and a $1 will buy you a cup of coffee...

[buford]

Smart - this really takes me back to the old SDH and Refuge days. Man I was hardcore for about 9 years. It's all in the call for me. I've got about half a dozen calls and there are two that I just can't do a feed call on. The other ones are easier but as has been said here already... just drop in a couple of chuckles and blend it in with some quacks, whistles and dweeps and you're good to go. And have you ever notices how most of the time the ducks quacks end on odd numbers? Weird.

[Smart]

Smart - this really takes me back to the old SDH and Refuge days. Man I was hardcore for about 9 years. It's all in the call for me. I've got about half a dozen calls and there are two that I just can't do a feed call on. The other ones are easier but as has been said here already... just drop in a couple of chuckles and blend it in with some quacks, whistles and dweeps and you're good to go. And have you ever notices how most of the time the ducks quacks end on odd numbers? Weird.

Yes sir....those were some good times.

I know the one I learned on was a double reed with a large barrel, an insert with a large hole and took a LOT of air to get it done. I worked on it till I'd almost pass out...lol....good thing I was young.. I picked up a single reed after l got it down good and it was a piece of cake. I had to tone it back to keep from rolling the reed. I sure wish I would have started on that single reed. My college roommate and girlfriend probably did too..

[Texasm1976]

I guess either you got it or you don't!

[Smart]

I guess either you got it or you don't!

Profound...

[EastTx]

Practice, practice, practice. It took me forever to get it. What helped me was like what Smart said start slow with tic a over and over until it just feels natural. Then add more tic a's as you get comfortable. Also do all your practicing on one call, the one you are most comfortable with.

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[talltexasshoote]

Listen o all of these guys that the feed call is overrated. It sounds great in competition, but ducks don't do it that often setting on the water. Pintails do it a ton while flying, and mallards do it on occasion softly on the water. Mallard hens do do a sharp quack quite often. This call alone will kill way more than the fanciest feeding calls. I kill way more with a mallard duck grunt made on a whistle and a pintail whistle than any fancy feeding chatter or comeback calls.

[BowTech 4 life]

say dic dic dic and mix some in real fast dicdicdic dica

[Bowtech10]

Use whichever syllables your most comfortable with, for me its ticka-ticka and instead of you trying to feed call for a long particular amount of time, start practicing with short bursts- a complete sequence being ticka-ticka X2. You will eventually get that down pat and then try for ticka-ticka X3 and so on and so on. Think of you imitating the sound of a toy machine gun into the call and you only having a few rounds at a time.

[jhunter77]

I tried this moring and still the same as my first post losing air on the ka note

[Hillary]

Speaking of shake calls...


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