How to Use External Reed Cow CallsUpdated 4 months ago

We get a lot of questions here at Phelps Game Calls around "How do you blow external reed cow calls?"! The tips provided by Dirk Durham below will have you using our External Reed Cow Calls in no time! 

Getting Started: 
1. Grab ahold of the call, and rotate the call so that the exposed reed/toneboard is facing towards the top of your mouth.

2. Cover your teeth with your lips, and place your lips on the tone board while biting hard to create a seal! 

3. Find the "sweet spot" by putting some air pressure to the call. You should not be looking to blow extremely hard--we're not blowing up an air mattress after all. Just blow a bit of air over the call, slightly more than you would typically use when blowing an elk diaphragm call. You should hear a high pitch "mew" type sound! If you don't hear a sound right away, that's okay--experiment by placing your lips at different locations on the tone-board of the call and over the reed. 

5. Once you've located the "sweet spot" on the call, adjust the location of the small rubber band over the reed/tone-board of the call. You will want this rubber band to sit at the location where your lips stop once you've located the "sweet spot" of the call. This serves as a place marker on the call, and allows your calls to be repeatable each time you pick up the call! 

6. Once you are consistently creating the high pitched portion of the "mew" sound, practice dropping your jaw while you are blowing on the call to create the sliding drop in pitch to the low note within the mew sound. 

For more tips and tricks around how to use External Reed Cow Calls, watch the video created by Dirk Durham below! 

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