Meet your instructor, experienced waterfowler Tommy Sessions. He's been hunting ducks and geese in Idaho since he was a kid. Today, he judges and competes in calling competitions and loves teaching others the lessons he’s learned.

Let's talk about the pieces and parts of a goose call, using the Axe Honker Slayer from Slayer Calls.

Learn how to hold your call the right way, to get the most success. A proper hold allows the caller to create more or less back pressure to increase or decrease volume and sound.

It’s time to practice, practice, practice. If you want to achieve truly realistic moans and deep, nasty goose sounds, you need to know where your air is coming from. So grab a pair of sunglasses, grab a mirror and let’s work on bringing out your best belly breaths.

This lesson is really about speed. When your tongue is anchored correctly (behind the teeth), you get more double clucks out of it. Work your way into more of a competition-style calling routine, just by anchoring your tongue in the right spot.

Check out this graph for a helpful visual cue that may make your calling more successful.

In making this buzzing sound, you're going to use a little bit of air and a little bit of vocal tone. This is the foundation of all the notes in goose calling, so don't move on until you have this.

Learn how to replicate the most common sound you'll hear out of a goose. Live geese are doing this all the time, so it’s an important one to get right.

Next up is the moan. This is almost a two-part call, but it's joined and drawn out.

Start by learning how to hook the tip of your tongue, anchor behind your teeth, and hit the top of your mouth to cut off all air.

Similar to a moan, but the reverse. Another call to practice and perfect.

Learn a call you can combine in either sequence — the cluck moan or the moan cluck.

At this point, you’ve developed a good calling foundation. If you haven’t yet mastered any of these beginner calls, you’ll want to go back to the exercises and get them dialed in. Next up, we’ll be moving on to the intermediate series where we're going to cover spit notes, moans, double clucks an...