Help Blowing Duck Call

keep that call in your truck baw and practice every time you get in your truck. It will come.

Different things click for different people. First, it might not come over night or even in a week. Put the call down, and pick it up tomorrow. Pick it back up find a new video to watch and try to do what they are demonstrating. It's hard to explain, but the thing that sparked it for me was when I heard someone use the phrase, make a noise similar to how you would say HUT as a quarterback. The air is gonna come from deep down and be "hot". I make a grunting noise as I blow, and my quacks are pretty solid.

You're gonna get tons of different advice. There's no sure fire technique, some things will make it click for some people. Keep at it, don't get discouraged.

Everyone is different but this is what made it click for me:

anchor the tip of your tongue on the back of your bottom teeth, now take middle of tongue and put it on roof of mouth. Should be easy to hold that position.

Get some air pressure built up and use the middle of tongue against roof of mouth as a valve, open it and a burst of air should come through, then close it. Repeat.

This should get the short burst "quack!" to build off of.

That one bearded feller said all ya had to do was say "ten ten ten".......

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That one bearded feller said all ya had to do was say "ten ten ten".......

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It turns into a joke because it's Phil Robertson and Duck Commander (which is sad, becauss those guys really know what they are talking about), but this isn't terrible advice.

Use a simple word like "Ten". Even Dud Faulk, on his "How To" tapes/CDs, taught to use a word to understand the proper breathing technique for blowing a duck call.

I don't say "Ten" into a duck call anymore, haven't in years, but the breathing is the same.

And don't believe all those bullshite "feed calls" you will hear online or at competitions. No duck sounds like a machine gun.

Every call blows differently too. Some are easier to learn on than others in my opinion. Try some other calls. Double reed calls are easier to learn (more forgiving) on as well.

Hut like a qb would for your quacks. Use kick in the back of your throat and rotate with a tick with tongue on roof of your mouth for a little feeding noise. The ongoing feed call I don't use nor can I do worth a hoot. No duck does that anyways. I always kept a call in my truck and probably still have the rnt cd in there somewhere.

There is no easier call to blow at first than a double nasty. Get one from academy. Best 19.99 you'll buy, will come with a instructional cd, which you need anyways.

Those echos are tricky for me. I'd suggest a Haydel dr 85 or a Yentzen, they'll both kill ducks and are way easier to operate that that single reed.

calling takes a hell of a lot of practice...I have been hunting for decades and I still have to take my calls out a week or so before the season to get tuned up. best thing to do is put them in your vehicle and blow them all the way to work/school each day.

as you say, you have to grunt into the call to make it sound right. I find that the hardest part is crisply starting and stopping each individual quack...you have to use your tongue really forcefully for it to be crisp.

also, most of the "quack" sound comes from varying how much your hand is opened on the downstream side. start with your fist almost closed and open it through the quack...basically gotta do the same thing with you hand as you do with your lips when you say the word "quack".

honestly, if you can get around someone who can call, they can show you all of this in a half hour or so.