JBWeld is correct. I still use my Olt Keyhole Cutdown. (Used it this morning actually) My boys still use them too. I have several that Kirk McCullough cut, and a couple from Tyler Rogers. (I have cut some for gifts, but I’m not an expert and get nervous filling on a 1947 Olt Keyhole) I also had Kirk cutdown a Mondo for me. Really like that call. I think if someone wants a cutdown call the best bet is a cutdown Mondo. (You could say the Mondo is already a cutdown by design) Maybe it’s more correct to say a “modified” Mondo. Since it’s acrylic it will last forever and the sound is excellent.
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To the point of the thread, I posted a while back about a d2 I bought way back when I started hunting ducks.
I never got comfortable with it and it ended up in a box of unused junk.
There was a thread on here a year or so back about cut down calls (I’d never heard of such) and I dug around and found that Olt.
After some googling and you-tubing, I went to work on it. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.
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It’s a plastic d2, bought new in the early ‘90s, so not the “real deal” so to speak, but I think it sounds good enough to have earned a place on my lanyard…
…right next to my ‘Ol Raspy from Duck Commanderand an old bois d’arc Echo J-frame.
and an old bois d’arc Echo J-frame.
You wrote… “It’s a plastic d2… not the real deal”To the point of the thread, I posted a while back about a d2 I bought way back when I started hunting ducks.
I never got comfortable with it and it ended up in a box of unused junk.
There was a thread on here a year or so back about cut down calls (I’d never heard of such) and I dug around and found that Olt.
After some googling and you-tubing, I went to work on it. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.
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It’s a plastic d2, bought new in the early ‘90s, so not the “real deal” so to speak, but I think it sounds good enough to have earned a place on my lanyard…
…right next to my ‘Ol Raspy from Duck Commander
Actually, the D2 Keyholes from the 80’s and 90’s had a plastic barrel, but the insert was still the original hard rubber. So it is the real deal, and actually can make a better cutdown than some of the old hard rubber barrels because those had a tendency to crack.
Hope this helps…
KM
Here’s a tip for anyone running an old Olt…
If you are hunting with an old Olt keyhole, please take some electrical tape and tape around the barrel and then around the insert. As you know there is no good way to put the second lanyard loop on an Olt D2 insert.
My keyhole insert fell out hunting in some cattails and fortunately I was able to find it. I immediately went home and ran black tape around every one I own.
Might save someone some heartache!
If you are hunting with an old Olt keyhole, please take some electrical tape and tape around the barrel and then around the insert. As you know there is no good way to put the second lanyard loop on an Olt D2 insert.
My keyhole insert fell out hunting in some cattails and fortunately I was able to find it. I immediately went home and ran black tape around every one I own.
Might save someone some heartache!
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