Duck Calling Tips & Strategies

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Mastering the short-reed has allowed callers to produce a broader range of goose sounds than ever before.
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The Single-Quack Series
This finishing call often works like a homing beacon for ducks.
Old Time Ways: Mouth-Calling Ducks
Do you really need a duck call to convince ducks to land in your shooting hole?

When Silence is Golden
In some situations, the silent treatment will help you decoy more ducks.
Tune Up Your Duck Call
Routine maintenance and summer practice can be crucial to success when opening day arrives.
On Call
A little preventive maintenance and an understanding of how your duck call can be modified will go a long way toward ensuring optimum performance.
Rod Haydel's 10 Tips for Better Calling
Follow these tips from calling legend Rod Haydel to improve your next outing to the blind.
Duck Calling Instructions Only a Phone Call Away
Waterfowlers seeking to improve their calling skills would be wise to receive instruction from accomplished callers, not necessarily the guy next door.
Keep Your Call Warm and Dry
You do not have to be a world-champion caller to call a duck. And you can help yourself simply by taking care of your call.
7 Deadly Duck-Calling Mistakes
How to avoid mistakes and improve your calling this duck season.
Teamwork in Duck Calling
All things considered, two duck callers can be much more effective than one.
The Basics
There are eight calls every serious duck hunter should have in his or her repertoire. Learn these and you will be able to bring ducks closer in nearly every hunting situation.
Calling Whistling Ducks
Rod Haydel shares tips for calling in whistling ducks.
The Feeding Chuckle (video included)
Trying different approaches can be the key to using this finishing call successfully.
10 Tips from Top Callers
Expert waterfowlers share their secrets for calling late-season ducks and geese.
Buddy, Can You Spare a Buck?
Call maker Eli Haydel has a quick solution for cleaning the gunk out of your duck call while afield.
Call in the Wood Ducks
Rod Haydel shares his secret tips for calling in wood ducks. This method involves hunting near a roost and then calling the birds in to you. Here's how it works...

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