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What do yall think is the best call and tecnique for pintails?

What works better? A "toot" or a rolling whistle (like sports whistle?)

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Just like everything else you get what you pay for. And no, they are not made of gold. What type of hunting do you do? Im sure that you pay for stuff that would make a duck hunter curious as well.

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LOL. Oh yes. I spend WAY too much money on gadgets myself. I wasn't trying to insult anyone in anyway - just curious to see how many pay those prices for a call. I agree - you get what you pay for. I'm guilty of spending money that I don't even have on hunting gear. I just spent over $1,500 on a new varmint rifle with all the bells and whistles. And Hayraker, I'll probably spend a few hundred bucks on corn this season.

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Well Gunslinger,
I am different, but these guys know that. Almost all of my waterfowl hunting is on heavy hunted public water. I almost never use a feed chuckle. Sounds really cool, but it is way over used and most ducks I have heard make it were not feeding but the first flyers of the morning with someplace to be. Everyone over uses it and I think it alarms ducks on some of the water I hunt.
But I have to admit that call sure sounds awesome from a nice acrylic call in the hands of a good caller.

The hail call is over used on public water too. It is what everyone hears everyone on the other side of a cove or lake for that matter calling to distant passing ducks. I have had better luck staying silent and waving my hat up and down to turn distant ducks.

I use more of what I guess would be called greeting calls, single hen or lonely hen quacks, and pleading or come back calls. More soft and slow. (stay with me here, there is a reason I strayed from the question to lead up to answer it) Public water I get more use of a call to entice ducks to swim in that where interested but landed in open water beyond the decoys than anything else.

I would say this too, don't matter how much your call cost, if you don't call well, it will still not sound right. I was at Bass Pro the other day and saw whiskeyandme calling on a $20 Buck Gardner call that sounded better than most I have heard on expensive acrylic calls. I like Haydels calls myself. I don't know the models right off, I have a few different ones I have tried, and one large barreled one on my lanyard is no longer made anyway, but on my lanyard I might have a haydels single reed, haydels double reed, a backup call that I think is a primos I got with a magazine subscription or something and a pintail/teal whistle that this reminds me is cracked and needs to be replaced.

In fact to add. A simple whistle type call is one of my go to calls. Public water ducks have not been called to death with them so much on the trip to texas and around the lakes, so they really respond to them well I have found. Those calls are dirt cheap too.

Easily less than $50 on my lanyard, but for my calling strategy that includes silence on some days, I do just fine. For public I rely more on scouting and being on the x where the ducks want to be.

My favorite call of all time was an old wooden Sureshot. It was huge and had a deep raspy sound of an old hen. So easy to call, it brought me ducks over several years. At the time I bought it I am sure it cost less than $5 bought at Gibsons. I would have no problem feeling confident with that call today if it was not broken.

Not saying expensive acrylic calls are not better sounding, just it is not something you HAVE to use to be successful. I might upgrade someday, but then considering the extra money would cost me a day or two of actual hunting. I'm going hunting with what I already have and know works. Besides, I'm not a good enough caller that it would really matter anyway.

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Good stuff Sniper John. Thanks for the info.

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LOL. Oh yes. I spend WAY too much money on gadgets myself. I wasn't trying to insult anyone in anyway - just curious to see how many pay those prices for a call. I agree - you get what you pay for. I'm guilty of spending money that I don't even have on hunting gear. I just spent over $1,500 on a new varmint rifle with all the bells and whistles. And Hayraker, I'll probably spend a few hundred bucks on corn this season.

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I think we probably all spend to much on toys, but ain't it fun