tuning

[goosekiller]

alright what is the best advice you can give me about tuning calls. i did it with my rnt goose call and it took me 3 hours to get it right. im going to experiment with my meat grinder that i dont use much anymore. any help would be great.
thanks

[Malin Hall]

The best way to learn is to just play around with a call's tuning which you are doing. I don't know if you are looking for basics or what, but the more reed you have showing the deeper the sound. The less reed you are showing, the higher the pitch. If you want to do spit notes or willis notes, you need to make sure the wedge is pretty tight or you will blow the guts out. A tip I found, is that you don't have to pull the the guts apart if you don't get it right. Just twist the guts and move it up or down to change the pitch. I hope this helps.

Malin

[Brett Buss]

The one bit of advise that I can give you about tuning a call would be. Take a fine tip marker and mark on the guts & reed the position they are in before you take them apart. This way you have something to work back to if you can't get it. Other then that your doig what you need to do, experiment with different reed placements to find what you like.

Good Luck and Good Hunting

[ShortReed]

Killer... give this link a read. It's a good resource, and take Brett's advice and mark the original position of the guts and reed... you'll be glad you did. You can mess around all you want and get it right back to the original set up. When assembled, you should be able to push the reed into the channel without it sticking. Less reed = higher tones, more reed = deeper tones as a general rule. And, as Malin stated, the guts can be moved in (higher tones) and out (deeper tones) without adjusting the reed... although I wouldn't move the guts too much, the wedge needs to stay firmly seated. Here's the link... enjoy! tuning shortreed goose calls (http://www.performancecalls.com/articles/tuning_goose_call.html)

[Wade Walling]

A lot of times People leave too much of a gap between the front of the tone channel and the tip of the reed. It should be just a paper thin gap. Also, make sure you push the whole gut assembly in far enough to make sure the wedge sits flat and does not raise on the front part....this will cause the call to be real buzzy and will stick and not sound right...I leave my wedge sticking out about the thickness of a nickle...If you push the wedge in it decreases the distance between the reed and the toneboard thus making the call easier to blow and this is how you get the higher pitched sound...if the call is too easy to blow...flick the reed a few times and the reed will be bent up a bit and will increase the distance between the reed and the toneboard...this will cause the call to take more air to vibrate the reed.

there is so many ways to tune a all and its pretty hard to explain on a computer or on a phone...the thing to do is to go to a show and ask one of the big guys (like current world champion Field Hudnall) to help ya out for a few minutes...You will learn more in that 5 minutes with Field than you would on any phone call or any internet article!

[goosekiller]

thanks for the input. im going to take my rnt powers call and retune it during deer season. its really high pitched right now and i want to deepen it up. thanks again