No tricks really on how to do it.
What's been used for a long time is the words "Tica-Tica".
Short bursts of Air saying those words Rapidly and Repeatedly.
Once you get that and can do it successfully, then you can add in a Single Quack here and their
Or whatever ya feel like.
Feel free to PM me, I can send a short Vid on the chuckle if ya want.
Good Luck! :thumbsup:

 

The common reference words "ticka" and "dugga" put the work on the tip of your tongue, so if you're struggling with that, you might want to try "gudda," which moves the work back on your tongue and may make it easier to get underway. Also makes a more realistic fussing sound.

 

Thanks guys appreciate it! I'll get to praticing!

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Never use a word reference that begins with a T. That will cause you to spit more and blow thinner air. For feed chuckle/chatter try using, for reference where to gate only, cuh....kinda like a lite cough.

STUMP

 

^^^ This

I had the same trouble. 'T' or 'D' words as reference also had the tendency to air lock the call as well.

 

It all depends on your airstream. A lot of guys use dugga or tica or even tick tock. The problem is your tongue is already in a raised position before you even start your air travel. I've played trumpet professionally for over 10 years and I've found that my skills playing has definitely been incorporated with my calling. I use tu ku to do my feeding chuckle. You will find that this will make your tounge do a rocking motion and the airstream on the ku is faster than on the tu. Both use very little tounge interruption of the air, but still have the punch because of your air. Try it and see if it works. It's all about the air flow and not the tounge accent. When you say tu you want to use the very tip of your tounge to hit the spot where your front two teeth meet your gums. Then use the middle of your tounge to hit the roof of your mouth.

 

The call comes into play as well. Some calls I can chuckle on just fine, others I can't for the life of me.

 

Lightly touch your tongue to where upper front teeth meet the gum. Like a ventriloquist, practice "took a ticket to town".
My wife just added, that is the back of the teeth not the front? Yeah.

 

did you get it yet?

If not try all this stuff above while your pretending to gargle. worked for me.

 

You might not really need a feeding chuckle call ? Once you get birds down close enough , that the feeding chuckle
works , IF ......you can shoot straight , you could have birds , feet-up on the water , and a full srap while other hunters
are trying to tick a tick a , tack a tack a , when they should be Boom a Boom a ? :lol3: :thumbsup:

 

It may be physical to. I have a lower jaw that doesn't even come close to matching up with the top. Lower jaw bone is almost a inch longer than the top bone. When I close my mouth I can insert a finger between the top and bottom teeth. No matter what I do the tongue doesn't align in the right position. So I've lived without the feeding chuckle. Still kill plenty of birds.

 

This is a link to a Kelly Outdoors broadcast with Butch from RNT calls giving about an hour calling seminar. He has lots of helpful hints/comments/observations on the "feed chuckle" and most other things call technique related.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kelly-outd ... y-outdoors

There is a lot of really good calling/call operation information stored on the archives of that blog, stuff with Kent Collum, Butch, Stump, and I think Trevor on one or two shows.

 

A duck only makes that sound when it's flying, not when it's feeding. When they are on the water you will hear a hen doing the tick-tick-tick tick-tick tick-tick-tick-tick sound. You will never hear a duck do the dugga dugga or ticka ticka on the water. I don't know about you but I usually try to sound like a duck on the water inviting the other ones down, not trying to win a calling contest. And yes I can make that really cool dugga dugga sound but it's never got me more ducks.

 

A duck only makes that sound when it's flying, not when it's feeding. When they are on the water you will hear a hen doing the tick-tick-tick tick-tick tick-tick-tick-tick sound. You will never hear a duck do the dugga dugga or ticka ticka on the water.

I've had ducks on the water make me look up with what the experts call flight chatter.

 

Just do a couple of tick ticks when they are circling behind you. I live in Texas so I don't have to do an aggressive feeding call. By the time they get here they've heard everything! I've had more ducks land in my spread without any calling. Unless you are getting into competition calling or guiding and impressing your clients, you don't need it.

 

I don't know about not being useful. Watching some ducks on a lake few weeks back. Swimming across in front of me. Gave a feed call and they turned on a dime swam right to edge of the water and started tipping up looking for food. Was pretty cool.

 

Never use a word reference that begins with a T. That will cause you to spit more and blow thinner air. For feed chuckle/chatter try using, for reference where to gate only, cuh....kinda like a lite cough.

STUMP

^^ This right here is all that is needed for a realistic feeding chuckle.
The only time I've heard that machine gun style chatter from real birds is when a large flock is flying over onward to some where else.

 

Just do a couple of tick ticks when they are circling behind you. I live in Texas so I don't have to do an aggressive feeding call. By the time they get here they've heard everything! I've had more ducks land in my spread without any calling. Unless you are getting into competition calling or guiding and impressing your clients, you don't need it.

hmmm....
Do ducks not eat where you live?

 

So one hen sounds like Cuh, cuh, cuh...

I don't typically do rolling feed chuckles while hunting... but if 1 hen sounds like that, what do 10 hens on the water feeding aggressively sound like?

 

The way I see it is , I use the ( so-called ) feeding Chuckle to relax the birds , reassuring them , giving them the feeling
everything is ok as all the other hens in my spread are greeting them to join in , to the group of look-a-likes .

Using this call , at the right time , can be very effective in putting birds on the water...........For Me ! :yes:

If it is blown......softly

 

Loud and agressive, call em in, or blow em out. I am looking to get a reaction out of ducks, get their attention and turn em.

 

Loud and agressive...

Over what's become a lot of seasons, I've come full circle on the use of "feed" calling. I abandoned the run of the mill "feed" one hears everybody and his three cousins do when birds are working pretty early on, because the wary ones are apt to associate it with guns going off. All I'd do were the quite clucks and chucks of contented birds, not because I put much weight on their usefulness, but out of nervous habit while reading the birds and waiting to either call a shot or call in a manner expected to trigger a desired reflex response.

Eventually, though, I'd watched enough ducks on the water fuss each other with blasts of chatter over what appeared territorial dispute to start experimenting with aggressive chatter in my calling. And I've found it a dandy alternative to more conventional "greetings" for both birds that have just been quacked at by every blind in the marsh getting to me and "locals" that have been taught my own blind's quacking tricks.

 

Eventually, though, I'd watched enough ducks on the water fuss each other with blasts of chatter over what appeared territorial dispute to start experimenting with aggressive chatter in my calling. And I've found it a dandy alternative to more conventional "greetings" for both birds that have just been quacked at by every blind in the marsh getting to me and "locals" that have been taught my own blind's quacking tricks.

:thumbsup:

I honestly believe that about 85-90% of my calling any more is feeding. Some loud blasts to get attention, straight into feeding, blast them agin if I lose them, more feeding, when they are getting close if I need to center them up some loud clucks, and more feeding...I guess that wouldnt work in some parts of the country... :thumbsup:

 

a cuh cuh cuh sound is what you are looking for. If you would like I could post a video of what it is I am talking about. Start slow, once it becomes muscle memory and you get the sound you are looking for, you can speed that up and slow it down for desired results.

 

The chuckle is all about repatition. The Tika tika or diga diga sound should only be used when hunting over large spreads, or competition calling, IMO. I use what I call the "chug" more than anything, just saying dig-dig, dig-dig-dig, dig, dig-dig-dig-dig, it sounds more natural, and isn't as hard to do. When you do this, over time you will naturally start slipping a diga diga in there, and start adding quacks as you get it down. Dig dig, quack, dig dig dig, diga diga, dig, quack. Im all about less is more when on the water. I have some videos on "East Texas duck hunters" facebook page and some in calling threads.