posted January 10, 2006 10:41 AM                      

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For Gosh sakes, I don't want to be one of them thar...prostitutes

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Hint: the more you deny it the more suspicious.

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posted January 10, 2006 07:46 PM                   

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I'd also seriously consider the YD1 or 2 (can't remember which is the howler) from Yellerdude, err I mean Yellerdog.

Lee (aka Yellerdog) ***** sheets of the tan mylar, at a totally reasonable price. The minimum purchase I could find it in was a 4'x100' roll (and I doubted I could sell enough to get my money back).

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My ears were ringing and I wondered why?

Now I know.
Dang Krusty, I only had to buy a 5' x 50' roll.
Should only take me about a year or two to get my money back.
There didn't seem to be many options though.

They're YDH1's and YDD2's by the way. You were pretty close though.

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Remember, we meet at dawn.

posted January 11, 2006 07:22 AM                  

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The lexan has the sharpest tones, broadest range of pitch, and a very high spring rate, but to achieve this it suffers from being quite brittle. Because of that I can see where it will only ever see use in the custom call arena, where personalized customer care is at another level. I'm hooked on the stuff though.

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In my short experience I agree 100%. I was practicing on my test mule call with a .010" lexan reed on the way to work this morning. I started with doe bleets, then fawn distress, lonesome pup howls, pup yips, pup whines, excited pup distress (this morning I finally got that sound like I want it and am ready to use it in the field! ), low pitched raspy jack rabbit, high pitched cottontail rabbit, and of course sharp barks to stop a coyote for the shot. I know there are still more sounds in that call/reed combo, and given time I'll get them out of it (2dogs showed me how to do a woodpecker but as of yet I haven't been able to do it).

That said, the last time I was up hunting with 2dogs his lexan reeded call had a reed split at the tip. That night when I changed from a vinyl reed back to a lexan reed on my test mule. I cut a template reed (gridded sheet of lexan) and then after it sounded like I wanted I used the template to cut two lexan reeds from non gridded lexan paper I have (both gridded and non gridded lexan sheets from walmart craft department). I tested both reeds and put one in my wallet behind my drivers liscense (along with the vinyl reed that was in the call, can't have too many spare reeds on you. ) and left the better of the two sounding reeds in the call. The template is somewhere safe.

I don't use sandpaper on the lexan reed edges, but I do use fine steel wool. I start the reed wide at the base and taper it narrower at the front. On my next lexan reeds that I cut I was thinking to make the cuts for the sides of the reed straighter I was going to take a flat fingernail file, lay it down flat with a rough side up, and slide the edge of the reed, running lenghtways, over it to take any peeks and valleys out of my cuts, then polish the edges with steel wool. I'm getter better at making the cuts straight, but I doubt they are anywhere near perfect...

Oh, and I started using a sharp fingernail clipper on the front corners of the reed cutting an approx 45 degree angle (similar to the 45 degree angle cuts on a screaming deamon reed tip, but my reed is tapered down narrow at the tip, where the screamon demon reed is wide front to back). I think it gives the last front 1/8" of the reed a really high pitched "sharp" climax which I use when making my excited pup distress sounds at the end of some of my excited pup distress yelps. It's hard to explain in print... but hopefully the coyote judges will like it.

I don't know why I find it so interesting, but I do. I guess I just love to make music.

later,
scruffy

[ January 11, 2006, 11:13 AM: Message edited by: scruffy ]

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