Feeding call for geese

[eyepatrol]

This past weekend I was calling at a flock of 8 geese which came right in. Interestingly, I heard them doing the low gutteral feed call (I think that's what it's called), so I gave them the same call back. They really seemed to love that. That's the first time I've ever tried blowing that type of calling to geese (on the water).

Does anyone else blow the low gutteral feed call to geese while hunting on the water and does it make a difference? Reason I ask is I've always just given them the higher pitch calls by varying tone/pitch and speed as dose everyone else I hear calling on the lake I hunt. But, because the geese were doing the low gutteral "grunting", I thought I'd do it back and man that sure did get them excited.

Just wondering what others do and what your experiences have been.

Thanks.

bc

by the way...that was awesome....the 3 of us ended up dropping 5 geese...talk about getting the blood pumping!!!

[Rost]

I believe you are talking about the "laydown" call. You can make the sound by saying "Dah, dah,dah,dah" or "who who who" into the call. Make sure you make the sound from your gut and give it a growl.

[eyepatrol]

Rost

Yeah, that's what it's called. I wasn't entirely sure. I do the "dah dah dah" thing by grunting it into my call. I couldn't believe how well it seemed to work. You ever tried that before?

[Bushwacker]

basscatcher,

That is crazy, I have been field hunting geese and calling for 3 seasons before this one and on Sunday I heard one flock of geese give me a guhh, guhh, guhh, guhh, at a pretty fast pace. I would call it a feed call too, sounded like a mallard feeding chuckle. I gave it right back to them and three of them broke off and came straight down. It was crazy how well it worked the rest of the morning. We went 5 for 3 guys too.

[Rost]

Yep, it works great. If you buy a tape on how to call geese, it will more than likely refer to 4 types of calling.

1. Hail Call- Loud Long Honks to get the flocks attention from a distance.

2. Feeder or cluck- An excited variety of clucks, double clucks for when the geese are coming towards you.

3. Laydown call- when the geese are committed. I usually start the laydown when they are about 100-200 yrds away.. (Mix a cluck in with the laydown once in awhile)

4. Comeback Call- Kind of a desperate hail call after they flare or you shoot.

My calling usually flares them way before I get to the laydown call stage But once in awhile I get a dumb flock to commit.

[wallydiver]

I love that "dah dah dah" call. As they get closer I like to do it a little faster and a lot more excited.

[eyepatrol]

Rost-

I use the comeback call also. Sometimes it works awesome, most times it doesn't (for me anyway). No matter what though, if the geese are heading away, I use the comeback call. Can't hurt anything, especially if they're heading away.

wallydiver-

That's exactly what I did. When they were out about 100-200 yards, I heard one of the geese make that call, so I repeated it right back to them and did it pretty excitedly. I'm sticking that memory in my back pocket because I'll be pulling it out again next time I have geese coming in. Now that I've had success with it, I want to play around with it some more and see how it goes on other flocks. I've found in the past that one of the hardest parts of getting geese to come in, is getting them to commit that final 100 yards. Hopefully this will play a big part in finishing off their committment to get them within range. Can't wait for the next flock!

[wallydiver]

That will play a huge part in getting them to commit. It's seems a natural tendancy to slow down or even stop calling when they get real close. But I just keep doing it faster and more excited until I'm ready to shoot.