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Title: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: h2ofowlr on November 13, 2009, 03:50:38 PM
I have collected calls for as long as I can remeber.  What I do remember is that calls used to be affordable.  I have somehow convinced myself that paying these large sums of money for calls is going to get me a better call.  That is still to be determined.  What I do know is that I have way to much coin invested into the calls hanging on my lanyard.  Has anyone else fallen into the same boat?  6 calls and well over $500 invested.
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: carpsniperg2 on November 13, 2009, 03:52:53 PM
nope not me i have about 15 duck and goose calls my most expensive one is about 60.00 most have been like 15-20 i have my faves i love my wench :chuckle:
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: boots on November 13, 2009, 05:43:50 PM
I've been looking into the more expensive calls, but have yet to plunge in and buy one
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: General Disarray on November 13, 2009, 05:49:54 PM
$35 bucks in calls.  $2000 in bands.
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: ducksdoom12 on November 13, 2009, 06:19:14 PM
135 dollar rnt call, plus a cum duck and a delta waterfall for backup
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: blmathis12 on November 13, 2009, 06:55:34 PM
i hear ya had the foiles dmm and now im using the zink ph2 i absolutly love it i never blown a more ducky sounding call
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: Dustin07 on November 13, 2009, 07:07:41 PM
none of my calls are over about $20-30. My fav goose call is a $15-20 flute I've been using for over a decade.
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: h2ofowlr on November 13, 2009, 08:00:31 PM
$35 bucks in calls.  $2000 in bands.
I buy the calls and shoot the ducks with bands, so those are free.  It sounds like you spent a lot of money to purchase them.   :chuckle:
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: carpsniperg2 on November 13, 2009, 08:03:17 PM
 :yeah: x2
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: General Disarray on November 13, 2009, 08:47:35 PM
yeah, my feedback on ebay is outstanding.  Sometimes you can find guys who don't know what they're doing and buy 5 or more at a time for a cheap price!

I value my bands at around $50 each for insurance purposes.  at last count there were 44 on there.  Have to admit, there is one on there I didn't shoot.  Found a band on a drake mallard along Hwy 12 in burbank about 12 years ago. 
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: NWWABOWHNTR on November 14, 2009, 11:23:47 AM
Have probably $400 of calls on my manyard,  Foiles is the most expensive,  goose and duck... still like my cheapest one the best.  It is a Duck Commander Ole Raspy...... and the Commander In Chief duck commander ain't too shabby.
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: addicted on November 14, 2009, 01:13:34 PM
love the crisp "QUACK" from my 12.99 faulks wood call.
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: RileyTDF on November 14, 2009, 02:17:04 PM
custom little man-$145 ph-1 $125 ph-2 $125- and custom sr1 $170...565 for 4 calls...yes i know what you mean haha :)
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: nwlynx22 on November 14, 2009, 02:55:40 PM
Between the zink,echo, and rnt calls on my lanyard the go to is still a dr-85 that was $18. Anyone using the new zink ph-2 double magnum?
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: ICEMAN on November 14, 2009, 07:09:27 PM
love the crisp "QUACK" from my 12.99 faulks wood call.

:yeah:
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: h2ofowlr on November 14, 2009, 07:27:11 PM
Picked up the Bill Saunders Schultz Triple reed duck call.  It is a very good sounding call.
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: gadwall on November 16, 2009, 08:57:05 AM
I have 1/2 dozen calls that I regularly use.  We hunt on the Columbia mostly so I carry 2 or three mallard calls, and some pintail/widgeon whistles plus my trusty Big River goose flute.  My favorite mallard calls are a Haydel's and an RNT double reed.  In all my calls I probably have $75-100 tied up.

Gadwall
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: spur_ride on November 16, 2009, 09:00:29 AM
ive got 6 calls i use regularly and im up to 400 to 500 in those 6.
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: teal101 on November 16, 2009, 09:13:48 AM
Between the zink,echo, and rnt calls on my lanyard the go to is still a dr-85 that was $18. Anyone using the new zink ph-2 double magnum?

I got the double mag.  Its make your ears ring loud!!!  Can't practice with it in the car, it's to loud :P  It's my corn field call haha.

I run a ph-2 poly carb, wanna get the acrylic, xr-2, ph-2 double mag, a wood whistle and a plastic whistle on the duck lanyard.

The goose lanyard has a zink clucker poly carb, big river flute, and a saunders I-5 refuge edition.
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: General Disarray on November 16, 2009, 12:58:20 PM
Picked up the Bill Saunders Schultz Triple reed duck call.  It is a very good sounding call.
been wanting one of those since I blew a sample that Schultz had at a DU dinner a couple of years ago. 
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: h2ofowlr on November 16, 2009, 06:54:56 PM
Picked up the Bill Saunders Schultz Triple reed duck call.  It is a very good sounding call.
been wanting one of those since I blew a sample that Schultz had at a DU dinner a couple of years ago. 
It's really a good sounding call.  It has proven to be worth the money spent.
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: chim-chim on November 16, 2009, 09:22:51 PM
got a foiles dead meat mallard a zink ph-2 acrylic a bill saunders i5 klr a taylor talker and the good ole wideon whistle got about 550 but love and use them all the time
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: jordano on November 16, 2009, 09:24:42 PM
love the crisp "QUACK" from my 12.99 faulks wood call.

:yeah:

 :yeah:  i have a faulks duck and goose call.. single reed wood calls! they are great! also a primos wigeon whistle and a mick lacy diver duck call. all under $15 a piece
Title: Re: Has your set up on your lanyard broke the bank????
Post by: teal101 on November 17, 2009, 08:54:42 AM
love the crisp "QUACK" from my 12.99 faulks wood call.

:yeah:

 :yeah:  i have a faulks duck and goose call.. single reed wood calls! they are great! also a primos wigeon whistle and a mick lacy diver duck call. all under $15 a piece

Hows that diver call working for ya?  Notice any better success using it?
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