Two New Calls!

I've made duck calls for 29 years now. During that time, I've varied the design a bit, but settled on 4 basic designs, of which I now still build 3.

In the past few years however, my farm in Arkansas has been covered in Specklebelly geese! Frankly at times, they outnumber the mallards on the farm. My father has gone headlong into this with full decoy setups and even bought a couple Speck calls to mess with.

To that end, I had to get those 'mass produced' calls off his lanyard, and it was time for me to get into the Specklebelly business. I've now made a few prototypes, each being modified multiple times. I've used two completely different internal component sets.

Through all of this, I've finally found a setup that gives the best balance of controllability and ease of use (not being hard to blow!). The final prototype is below, in Santos Rosewood with Bois D'arc cap and Paduak stripe.

 

 

The second new call is my new drake whistle. Pretty simple call, but it does a lot. It works as a drake mallard and pintail whistle as well as a teal call. Drake whistles have grown in popularity in the past 10 years because they work! The prototype below is made of Paduak with Winchester brass.

 

 

 

Put these two calls together along with one of my single reed duck calls and you have the perfect Mississippi Flyway combination.