Hunter Grounds recorded these on a Tim Grounds Championship Calls G Overhauler. They were captured at 192 kHz and fingerprinted with sha256, so every score you get in camp is measured against a specific, checkable file — not an average, not a synthetic ideal.
The goose shelf is thin, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Duck Camp draws on 70 measured references. Goose Camp draws on seven — five of Hunter’s on one call body from a single session, plus two on Hobo-made calls whose performer is not yet established. They cover those bodies well and say nothing yet about flutes, short reeds from other makers, or a different day. More arrives as Hunter records further sessions; this panel will grow with the library and not before.
Two of the seven were recorded on Hobo Duck Calls goose calls — a Panda Pounder and a Specs Master. Hobo is the call maker; who actually blew those two is a separate fact and is not established, so they render as attribution pending rather than guessed at. Coaching lanes never move: Kent Cullum is duck, Hunter Grounds is goose. Those two are also the only band-capped goose entries (48 kHz chain) — Hunter’s five carry the full band.
On the attack numbers. Rise time is a reference, never a pass/fail threshold. Across Hunter’s five takes his own median rise runs 19.22 ms but the individual takes range from 3.97 ms to 24.31 ms — a 106% spread. A champion is not a fixed point, so nothing in camp will fail you for missing a millisecond figure.
Pick the call you actually blow — every goose maker we have catalogued is here, Hobo and Tim Grounds included. It turns so you can see it, and it comes apart so you can see why it sounds the way it does. Where a number has not been measured yet we say so instead of guessing.
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