Purr - Short, rapid bursts of air from your lungs will produce this undulating high-pitched call. To make this call, form your lips as if making the "UR" sound.-purr - ththth... Many people purr with their lips like blowing a raspberry. Others make a gargling sound in their throat. You can try fluttering your tongue against the roof of your mouth to create a purr sound.

Yelp - Round your lips to form an "O" shape when making this call. Drop your jaw to adjust the sound. Say, “cholk, cholk” while dropping your jaw on the end of the word. You can try different mouth positions and rhythms.

Cut or Cutting - Keep your lips together when starting this call as if pronouncing “chuck”, then form your lips to make this call. Try saying "chuck, chuck, chuck". Trap the air between calls with your lips keeping it to a sharp and irregular 3-6 note.

Kee-Kee or Kee Kee Run - Form your lips as if pronouncing the "eeeee" sound. Some add the “eeee yolk” for a Kee-Kee Run sound.

Cackle- Try saying, “kit kit, cat cat cat cat, cholk cholk, cholk, chuck” (also sharp like a cut but in a regular sequence) starting slow, quickly speeding up and then slowing down again slowly, about 12 to 15 notes total.

Cluck - Is made by starting with lips closed and allowing the air to pop your lips open while saying “plock” sharply.

Putt - Same as cluck but a loud sharper quick single note. I DO NOT suggest using this call but thought I should tell how it’s done.

Whine - cccccct Steady soft air across the reeds cut off at the end.

First things first, please read the warnings below before placing the call in your mouth. I like to start by running all new mouth calls under warm water to remove any latex powder that might still be on the reeds. Place the diaphragm call in the roof of your mouth with the latex strips toward the tip of your tongue and the taper of the horseshoe toward the back of your mouth (tab down). If the call needs to be trimmed for a proper fit, you can easily trim it back. Just be careful to trim a little at a time as not to cut your call too far down. At first the mouth call will tickle your mouth as you try to produce sounds. Don’t worry, this will pass shortly and will not be an issue for most. Use the sides of your tongue to hold the diaphragm in place against the roof of your mouth, so that air can pass over your tongue and under the latex strips. Sound is created when air passes the latex strips. For most sounds, a deep breath blown past the latex strips will produce good results. All of the following calling sounds can vary with calling tempo & rhythm. Practice... practice & more practice is the only way to become proficient with your mouth calls!

Learning to use mouth calls really isn’t all that hard once you give it a try. The trick is to work on your rhythm, the tone of your calling, controlling the air you use to make a call and learning to relax when calling. That last part will come into play when you’ve got a hot gobbler screaming his head off at you and your heart’s racing a mile a minute.
  
Once you’ve got all that down, the fun begins. Knowing when to make a call or finding the right tone for the bird you’re working is where all your practicing will be put to the test. Call tip- soft calling is always better than aggressive calling.

Below are the calling instructions & exercises that are included on a removeable card with every call I sell.

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