GK refuge call

[Blueblood]

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The call on the right is roughly 16-19 years or so old. The left call is a couple years newer.
From what I recall the short barrel was based on the Original then they took the short barrel slightly bored it out and raised the reed set a bit then you have your Daisy Cutter (the first dc)
The word was if you could run the dc game over. I never bought one though because I wasn’t looking for loose hard to run…
It’s been a long time though so I might be mistaken. Both these calls have pretty solid volume on top.
I just ended up feeling these did nothing my older original couldn’t.
Ymmv

The left two tone call is a beaut!

 

[Rick Hall]

The left two tone call is a beaut!

That burnt hedge SB brought back some memories. I had one years back that could get as real-deal "ducky" as anything I've tried but lacked the leverage on game of what I used, and still use, afield. It had been a gift from James Meyers, who'd been given it by Nathan Wright before they got cross-wise, and it being too neat to just sit in my calls and stuff drawer, I passed it along to a call crazy young fellow who was working with James and Bill in their then-new Riceland shop.

Have occasionally thought kindly of it, like now, but like to think its found a better home.

 

[Rick Hall]

They were great calls when you got a good one. They varied alot call to call, and were notorious for sticking. I sent one in 3 times to deal with sticking. It still stuck between flights, but would break loose easily for me, as long as I had a good cork. Had a friend that could lock it up in seconds with a feed call though. Also the cork slots were easy to break.

Don't recall my old DC sticking from moisture, but it would air-lock on the quiet clucks and chucks I'd fall back on when birds were close, which bugged me bad enough that sent it back to Jim, who then called to say he was afraid to take all of that out for fear of losing the horsenes that made that insert special and would rather send me another. I declined the offer and put up with that insert's quirk for some years.

But its thin cork tab did eventually snap. Only one I've ever broken, pound timber...

 

[OneShotBandit]

View attachment 381178
The call on the right is roughly 16-19 years or so old. The left call is a couple years newer.
From what I recall the short barrel was based on the Original then they took the short barrel slightly bored it out and raised the reed set a bit then you have your Daisy Cutter (the first dc)
The word was if you could run the dc game over. I never bought one though because I wasn’t looking for loose hard to run…
It’s been a long time though so I might be mistaken. Both these calls have pretty solid volume on top.
I just ended up feeling these did nothing my older original couldn’t.
Ymmv

I had a Bocote SB, sent it in w/$10 and RNT made it into a DC. That was ~2000.

 

[15thTN]

Don't recall my old DC sticking from moisture, but it would air-lock on the quiet clucks and chucks I'd fall back on when birds were close, which bugged me bad enough that sent it back to Jim, who then called to say he was afraid to take all of that out for fear of losing the horsenes that made that insert special and would rather send me another. I declined the offer and put up with that insert's quirk for some years.

But its thin cork tab did eventually snap. Only one I've ever broken, pound timber...

Oh yes some were terrible at air locking.