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COPYRIGHT 2005 Grand Forks Herald
Byline: Brad Dokken
GRAND FORKS, N.D. _ Ask Chris Davies about his passion for waterfowl hunting, and he'll talk about the thrill of seeing ducks and geese way off in the distance and coaxing them into the decoys for a closer look.
Calling them closer is both the challenge and the attraction.
``I like reading the birds,'' said Davies, of Grand Forks. ``I have more fun just making sounds and seeing how they react.''
Davies, 29, has taken his penchant for making those sounds to another level with a new goose call that's making a quite a honk in both hunting and competitive calling circles. Davies calls it the Feather Duster, and he's already sold the short-reed calls as far away as Norway and Nigeria.
Not bad for a project that developed in a corner of his father-in-law's shop in East Grand Forks, Minn.
A shift administrator at American Crystal Sugar Company, Davies says he started thinking about making a goose call while working part-time at the local Cabela's store. He says a lot of people would blow flute calls, which are simpler, but less versatile than short-reed calls. Problem is, short-reed calls...
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