Buck Gardner's Scrapbook Blog: September 2006

Testimonial

Hey Buck and Brad.....and rest of gang.
I need a little help with my DNXL I got last year. I seemed to have lost some of the bottom end. It is begging to take quite a bit more air to get it to "break". I have absolutely loved this call......only thing I am blowing beside the NEW TALL TIMBER Chad sent me a couple weeks back. Man you guys have really done a good job. The RNT and Echos are in the safe......probably gone to the first person that wants to buy them.
Funny story from last weekend, a bunch of guys in our area have a "warm up" calling contest, which I have not entered in about 10 years, been on the judgin' end. I decided to put some "Gardner" music on them this year. The standard calling contest I ended up 3rd with the XL, really hacked off about 15 of them when they saw I was blowin' double reed. (I think I could have placed 1 or 2 if I could have gotten a little nastier with it. Then we had the " meat" callin', and I won that one with the Tall Timber. This is the first win in our "non-sactioned" meet that was not RNT, Gaston, or Echo in guess ever. We were sittin' and liein' to one another over a cold one, when I really blew their minds, cause I stuck the Timber in the cooler of water, then blew it. HA! you should have seen their faces.
Let me know if you can do a retune on the DNXL. I don't think I should try foolin' with the double reed.
Thanks again for everything guys, you'all are the best,

Bob Galloway

Casey Self – 9/9/06 – Prostaff in Kansas

Joel got this picture of me in the pouring down rain Saturday while teal hunting, I was told by several people that it looked like a good commercial ad picture. I photo-shopped the Spit tech logo on it in both black and white and color. Thought it was pretty cool because even in the pouring down rain the calls were still sounding nice and snotty and not sticking. Perfect spit tech moment.

Prostaffer Jason Patterson and his family

Testimonial

Buck,
I've given the Pocket Rocket some good workouts. I've run water in it, put it in the freezer when it was wet, tried to load it up with saliva etc. and it never has stuck or frozen up on me. I'm not much on doing ringing hail calls so I didn't try that too many times but it will do them with no trouble. It really does the chatter call (feed) well. Good crisp notes. The greeting, come back, & quacks are very clear.....hard, soft or in between. It's really easy to control the volume. It's one of the easiest calls to use that I've tried. I'm just a duck hunter, been at it since 1966. I would rate the Pocket Rocket a 10 all the way. I can hardly wait to see how the ducks respond to it. I think it will really be a good seller @ $30-35.00 for the duck hunters that want a quality call for a reasonable price. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to try your call. I think my two grandsons are going need one too when you get them up for sale. Great Job and Thanks for all the work you do for us duck hunters!!!

Steve Greenwald
aka: huntnlabs