Calls and today we’re gonna work on the purr I, get messages all the time about the purr, but it wants to know how to do the purr and it’s a pretty hard note to get down. Initially it really bothers people’s tongues tickles through their mouths, but once you get it mastered, it’s no problem. It’s a super, easy and fun note to do, and it’s a really great soft sound to use when the bird is closed. But you need me just to get a little bit closer, but you don’t want to call too loud.

The purr is perfect all right, so let’s just jump right into it. So first there’s a few there’s a few ways we can do it. I use the uvula the thing that hangs down in the back of your throat. Some guys can’t do that and they got a flutter their tongue and then other guys can’t do either of those and they got a with their lips. All three are effective. I think the realism is kind of ranked in that order. The uvula to me sounds the most realistic.

Your tongue is kind of in the middle and the lips work, but don’t sound the greatest so first I’m going to start with the uvula. That’s a fun word: we’re gonna act like we’re gargling, and that thing back there. That’s your uvula, that’s flapping! If you can do that, you can make a per hour. Turkey call so we’re gonna, put the call in our mouth. We’re gonna use our tongue, use the middle of our tongue and apply pressure with it to the roof of our mouth, make sure the tapes making a seal with the roof of our mouth and then we’re just going to gargle, and then once you get the turkey cold start making noise try and take some of the voice in some of the throat adamant death.

Take the good out of it. We’re just gonna blow air but keep our uvula moving, and then you get a per so once you’ve got the throat out of it and we’re making a /. It should sound like this. We need to speed it up just a little bit so I’m going to bowl a little bit harder and then I can change the pitch of it, based on how much pressure I’m applying with my tongue, so to give a little bit more realism, I’ll start low, go high and then go back.

Look I’ll just add a little bit more tongue pressure in the middle of it, and so that’s the / with your uvula. Now, if you can’t do that, then you can try and blow air over your tongue. You get your tongue to flutter. I can’t teach you how to do that, because I feel life of me cannot make it happen, but I’m kind of but I’m. Okay with that, and so, if you can’t get either those to work, then you can flap your lips and unfortunately, I can’t demonstrate that one either because when my mind thinks per my usual, it starts going and I can’t make it stop.

I have no idea how to get it to stop and try and use my lips so you’re, just gonna have to take my word for it. If you get that solid note going and with your lips, then it’ll make something that sounds relatively like a pearl. So now, when are we gonna use the / in the woods? For me, it’s kind of just a filler sound and something that I’m gonna use as he’s getting super close and I. Don’t want to use anything very loud. Just a standard, relaxed / doesn’t have too much meaning to it.

To me what it says is I’m just over here scratching the leaves eating some bugs there’s no problems over here. If you were thinking there was some kind of problem over here, I’m assuring you there’s not everything is good. Nothing really exciting is happening, I’m, just eating and I’m content and all as well in the world. But now you crank the volume in the intensity up a little bit and you get a you know an aggressive /, almost into a fighting purr.

You know that shows some aggression and I’ve seen some instances where there’s nothing. It can break that bird and then you get into a fighting purr and the next thing you know he’s flying and running towards you. I think it’d be kind of like if your girlfriend’s, like hey I, want to go to the bar and get some dinner and you’re like no. You know you go I’m gonna stay over here across the street and have pizza, but you go to the bar and get some wings.

If you want- and you know, she’s like come on- let’s go: let’s go, let’s go no I’m not going, but then all sudden she gets in there and you hear yelling and screaming, and beer bottles breaking and pool sticks, breaking and there’s a huge fight going on you’re over there in a hurry. So I think it’s kind of like that in the turkey world man, you do the fighting purr, it’s really good to have a buddy with you, so you can be one in and then your buddy can be the other hand.

You know you can do it, you can do a lower / and your buddy can do a higher-pitched / or you can try and do it by yourself. But it’s a little bit harder to do by yourself. So I’m going to try and do a low hand and a high hand and they’re kind of scuffling back and forth now, I’m, not the best at the fighting / in the world, but especially if you can get to guys it becomes a ton easier because you can just kind of bounce back and forth of each other.

It makes it a ton easier, but anything that’s a little bit more sped up and more aggressive will work. Alright, guys well, I think that brings us to the end of the /. So if you haven’t already subscribe, do it give the video a thumbs up, and let me know down in the comments what you think are you able to achieve the uvula shaker? Can you flap your tongue or do you get a flap your lips, slowing down out in the comments section, which one is easiest for you and which one you think sounds the best and if you’ve got any suggestions or recommendations for videos in the future leave those down in the comments as well, so guys thanks so much for watching I hope it helps you and we’ll see you in the next one.

Turkey hunters are always looking for an advantage when it comes to getting a gobbler in range. Over time countless devices have been developed to make that task easier. Specialized guns, ammunition, camouflage decoys and calls have all changed dramatically in my lifetime in turkey. Hunting there’s no substitute for woodsmanship good calling.

But me the mouth call is the most versatile call on the market. Today. This video is not designed making an expert with a mouth call. It is designed to give you the basics. You need to get started using the mouth call. A mouth call consists of several individual parts. First, you have the skirt, which is a tape or wider part, the frame which is typically made of aluminum.

Then you have the reeds. There is an up and down side of mouth calls and a front, and by the reeds, always go toward the opening of your mouth and long Reed’s always go up for most people starting out a mouth call is not comfortable in the roof of your mouth. It is important to know that you can trim the skirt or bend the frame for a better fit when bending the frame take care not to change the tension on the reeds.

This will change. The tone of the collar. Remember on multiple reed calls. The long Reed always goes up. This can be hard to discern you can check visually, but another way is with the long Reed up put a notch on the right front of the skirt. As long as that, knot is on the right. The long Reed is up, there’s no substitute for practice, but actually hearing the sounds you want to make is a great way to learn.

Sound bible, dot-com offers actual purchase sounds you can play on-demand and learn pitch and cadence of actual turkey vocalizations a good way to help get that air channeled in the right direction is to say words the air. Doesn’t it’s not like blowing out a candle? There has to come from your diaphragm. So if you say the word, shuck shuck forming that word put your tongue and your jaw in the right position to make basic turkey sounds, which is the Chuck.

Once you get that sound, then you can move on to turning that basic sound and to get clucks cuts whatever you want it to be. These little calls are so versatile you’ll be amazed at what you can do, and you will be also amazed at the freedom of hands-free turkey phones. You.

Owner of gobbler sniper game cause, I’ve been making these calls for about 10 11 years, I’m not even sure how long now. This is not a how to make mouth calls video or how to make diaphragm calls video. This is just a few little tips that if you’re someone that’s been making them or want thinking, maybe you want to pick up or take up making them just some things that may help you. I’ve been self-taught throughout the years, and these are a few little tricks that I kind of learned with the the experience and want to share them with you may or may not help you, I’m not saying it’s right or wrong.

It’s just some of the ways that I do it and I’m I may change it up. If you can tell me a better way to do it. So if you see anything, I’m doing wrong. Just shoot me a message. Let me know and just like to share, share some thoughts and share some ideas with each other and help each other out. If you’re someone just watching this- and you want to order some calls message me on facebook and I’ll hook- you up it’s www facebook com, backslash, gobbler, g-o-b-b-l-e-r, dot sniper.

I s-n-I-p-e-r forgot to mention one last thing: uh subscribe to the youtube channel, if you can, I’m always putting up some turkey hunts, there’s a lot of neat stuff on there um and I plan on starting doing a lot more with the youtube channel. So if you don’t care, give this video a like and share it if you want to and subscribe to our youtube channel now, let’s watch it. So one thing is lighting.

You never would believe how much lighting can help, especially when your pressing calls. I bought this light here at walmart, it’s like a for doing, selfies and blogs and things in which actually I use it. When I’m doing turkey call blogs and things about my calls, but you can angle this little light and you see how much better you can see look at without that and with that, how much better it is to see when you’re stretching a call.

I mean that’s without it. That’s with it I mean you can see a lot better. So lighting is to me, as you can see, important. Another thing is make sure if you’re not already, if you’re gonna make a lot of calls, make them in steps rather than just making one call at a time stack out so many, whether that be 10, 15 20 pieces of latex stack. Your latex then come over here and then stretch them all then come back and cut them out and then tape them and then tape cut them.

So just do it like a factory, because if you do one, what you’re doing is you’re doing this picking up your tool to stack your latex you’re, putting it down then you’re, picking up scissors and then you’re putting them down and then you’re picking. You know your you could save time by doing it in steps. Another thing is: when you’re stacking latex get you. I see some people doing it like on a hard surface like a table to me, the hard service will work, but I, like I, just use a board.

As you can see, I’ve been using this board for quite a while. I wonder how many pokes is in there uh. This board may get hung on the wall when it retires, if it ever does retire, but it’s about eight, eight years old or older, I’ve been doing these on it. So um I use a wooden board. I used to use a phone book when I first started so just get you something to stack your latex on another little trick.

I learned after pressing calls was years after starting it. I was always doing it different and then I would notice every now and then my calls were catching and what I mean was they were crimping up here. When I stretch the latex, they would catch and I’d have to pull them through, just pull it until it would come on through and then come back and restrict that call what was happening. Is this adhesive when you pull that off was catching my latex when I would push this down so the fix for that is when you’re and I’m going to try to do this with this phone in my face.

So you’re heavy breathing, I’m right on top of this phone. So sorry, so is when you press this side down. I was just flipping this down all the way and uh what was happening was when you were pressing that down all the way, then you would be touching already here when you’re trying to pull this latex through, and it’s touching it’s sticking to the adhesive. So you really don’t have to press this down because your frame presses on each side and the back in the back tension.

So it really doesn’t matter if it’s pressed all the way down. So what you do is press it down. Leave it up just a little bit, don’t press it all the way flat. Leave yourself about a eighth inch quarter, inch gap- you just have to eyeball it and do it a few times press this side. Now what that does is it allows your latex to slide through here without touching your frame and getting on any kind of glue? So let me go ahead and press this one out.

Two little quick tips. I do on cutting off your excess latex. Now we’re not going into cuts into the cogs, there’s so many different ways, and so many different, that’s something you’ll just have to learn on your own one tip. I use these little scissors. I order off amazon and I got another part. I liked real good but they’re hard to find these are titanium they last a little longer. I use these for my cuts in my call because you have to get real detailed.

I like the smaller scissors, it’s kind of harder on your hands, but you can get go in there and cut real, easy latex dull scissors over time. So what I started doing and it’s easier is get. I use a different pair of scissors, a little bit bigger scissors to cut off my excess latex. For two reasons: it’s easier you don’t got to be as precise here and then I don’t know my scissors up as fast, because I’m cutting all that excess latex off with these.

These are like two or three dollars a pair of walmart um. The other thing I see a lot of people cutting off latex they’ll, and this is just me- I mean whatever works for you, but this is something you may want to try I’ll see them cut off this side. I can’t show you they’ll come here and cut this off and then they’ll cut this off, and you know it’s just watching youtube videos and things so they’ll cut this off.

Then they come back and cut the top strip off, which that’s fine, there’s nothing wrong with that it’ll work, but, to me, like I said earlier, the more you’re having to let off your hands and and you’re slowing yourself down by lifting that call taking that taking that it’s three stages do it in one- and this is just me whatever works for you is going to be best but try this taking hold. This call with your thumb and finger here and this hand hold this bottom edge here at the frame.

Take your pointer finger and your middle finger and stretch that latex that way, you’re using one hand cut here and when you get to the top of that you’ll see that kind of you’ll see it kind of separate, see, watch here. Okay, do you see that kind of kind of pop, like it’ll kind of jerk? When you get up there, then I don’t even have to take my hands off the call. I just stretch it here, pull it back again, it’s still three stage process, but you’re not making three different cuts and you’re not having to take your hands off and on the call so again I’ll show you real quick how much quicker that is when you’re doing it this just normal speed, you’ll see that will pop stretch it again.

Now that’s going to be something which doing it with this camera in my face makes me mess up a little bit, but that’s going to be something you might like doing it. That way, you might like doing it the other way, whatever works best for you is best, but when I’m cutting them, I don’t never take my hands off this call. I don’t have three cuts. I have one so to me. That’s a lot easier. Try that see if that works.

For you, okay. I know I said I wasn’t going to get into cutting calls um, but I’m not going to really get into different cuts and cutting them, but I wanted to show you something to remember, because when you get old like I am you can’t remember good, then you need all the help you can get combo cut. I never could really remember what side was what, especially when I would come back and be making calls after the season and begin um, and you take off making four or five months and then start back making calls for the season.

You don’t always remember some things you did four months ago, so I would look it up on the internet or look at old call, but there’s a trick to remember what side of reverse combo and a combo cut is as you’re cutting the call because, of course, you’re going to cut it this way. Now I’m going to try to do this in the camera, you don’t cut the call from the back. Some people say that this is the front and that’s the back, but you’re cutting the call here right.

So with a combo, you start with a v and I’m gonna mess this up. There’s a camera in my face. Pretty much everything in turkey call starts with a v, so you started with a v cut way to remember this is as you’re cutting the call where you’re cutting it r is for reverse, so you cut the right side out of that. That’s all you got to remember. If you’re doing a reverse, combo cut, you would cut this side out.

R is for reverse. That lets me know that my left-hand side is a normal combo cut. So another little quick tip, sorry about the background. Noise always cut your cuts out before you tape. Your calls, I mean that’s my opinion. I see a lot of people taping their calls and then cut them. Of course, you’ve got something more to hold on to, but to me you can get in here and be more precise by holding this call here.

But the main thing is: if you mess your cut up, guess what you ain’t wasting a piece of tape, so I always cut all my calls out and then tape them and then cut them last um. That’s really not the tip, because a lot of people know that, but a while back just just just a little quick thing that may help you. You know you may be doing it when I had all this little x, like like excess latex from what I would call that it’s worse when you’re doing batwing cuts or because it’s twice that, because it’s the latex that’s comes out or when you’re doing those modified v cuts of those little bitty pieces.

That’s when it’s really aggravating so before I was raking these up. In my hand, trying to get them off I’m trying to get them out of the way before I start and they they’ll roll and stick it’s simple right. There you’re gonna, throw that away anyway, the middle piece to your tape. Take it peel the back off, so you got the sticky back. You may have to use a couple right there throw it away.

I just learned that on my own, it’s just something little things you’re going to throw that away anyway, use what you got. The last thing I’m going to show you is how I tape a call. There’s no really wrong way to do this as long as you can get it and not mess it up, but you’ll miss a lot of them up. So I’m going to show you how I do it, it’s just how I started doing I’ve always done it first.

You know you got to take your center piece out. What I do is I like to fold my tape. I’ve seen people. Do it different way. I don’t know how many different ways but I’ll fold my tape when I’m folding this tape, I’m not folding. It to meet here, because sometimes your tape may mismatch. So I don’t fold the meat- I’m not really worried about this as far as folding it in half what I’m looking for is my middle.

You see that section there. That’s where I’m getting my half at, because you may fold it back here, but guess what this may be off. This is where you’re really worried about, because this is all going to be cut out. So when I fold it in half, I’m lining this up, where my call is gonna set so I’ll line that up and then I’ll, crease it and then I’ll take and of course I did a lot faster than this one.

I’m not trying to explain it peel, my back off and I’ll probably mess this up, because I’m talking to you then I take my call: lay it back down first, the bottom first and then I’ll set it in and I’m just lining it up with the edge of where that tape is folded, just kind of pushing it up against that. Then you just push that down, pull your back off and you don’t want to force the top part back because you’re going to get creases when you get these creases, you can’t get them out.

You better have to throw it away or just use it as a practice. Call you all know that I’m sure you’ve been to it. But what I like to do is kind of go front to back and work it back. Let it fall into place, don’t try to force it down, but just go front to back. You got to line it up with your frame, so kind of line it up where you want it. If you see I’m just letting that fall and then get it down and then move your fingers out of the way and don’t push on this just in places, but just come front to back now.

Of course, that’s out of line a little bit with the tape cutter to take care of that I’ll show you. So if you got this out of line on these sides, don’t really worry about that push your call down real good cut it out. There you go see your tape. Cutter will take care of your outline here. Sometimes your tape can be off square and cause that too, but just little things also guys, if you’re on the fence about getting a tape cutter, I put it off for three four years after when I started making calls I’m gonna I got up to where I was making five six hundred a year at first for people.

I never realized how much time it saves. I don’t think I can do this without one now now, if you’re this person, that’s going to make 50 to 100 calls a year just for you and your buddies. No, you probably don’t need to spend money on a tape cutter, but if you’re thinking about making them at all and selling them and you’re gonna make three four five hundred a thousand two thousand calls a year.

You definitely need a tape cutter I mean cutting these out with scissors. I was putting a call on it tracing it, and that was fine it’ll work, if you just want them to use. But if you want to make a lot, you don’t realize how much time that saves I mean I can punch these out. I mean I can do 50 in probably five minutes, so get your tape cut. If you can make a lot of these.