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re: Duck calling assistance
Posted on 11/15/17 at 3:32 pm to No Colors
Posted on 11/15/17 at 3:32 pm to No Colors
If that same group is mallards and she sees ducks overhead she will let loose a loud series of quacks too.
Ducks are vocal. Callings ducks is a skill needed by duck hunters. Be kinda ok at making the sounds, but be real good at why you are calling and when you are called by. Learn to read ducks and your calls can do wonders.
Ducks are vocal. Callings ducks is a skill needed by duck hunters. Be kinda ok at making the sounds, but be real good at why you are calling and when you are called by. Learn to read ducks and your calls can do wonders.
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Posted on 11/15/17 at 3:38 pm to Cowboyfan89
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I feel like if you decoys out, and you aren't calling, it's not very realistic. Ducks may not be loud and rowdy like some guys are, but they also aren't lifeless pieces of plastic either.
And see, I've come to the conclusion that duck calls are a huge con for hunters. As it was stated before, most hunters are buying mallard calls and most of the time.....at least for me in the SE, I maybe see mallards 10% of the time. I've tried the gadwall call and to me it seems so inaudible, I just can't fathom a duck being able to hear it 10's of 100's of yards away.
But I do believe decoy placement, location, and coverage are the 3 main components of successful hunting. Decoys are, to me, the biggest factor in attracting ducks in range......which is why motion decoys are so effective/ineffective i.m.o.
Posted on 11/15/17 at 3:49 pm to TheCurmudgeon
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When you see that high flight of mallards break, start dumping air, and falling towards your blind right after you hit them with a hail call, you'll agree they are attracted to duck calls.
I thought so too until I started hunting in open water areas where there were multiple blinds for these birds to choose from.....and all of us were calling at the same time. I believe these ducks are already making their minds up as they survey from the air.
Again, I'd love to believe they work because I have a lanyard full of em.....but when I'm sitting there falling asleep because it's so slow and then all of the sudden I'm bombarded by a group of decoying greys...and I haven't blown a single note in a while.....then I start to become a little pessimistic.
Posted on 11/15/17 at 3:57 pm to chatchit42
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I just can't fathom a duck being able to hear it 10's of 100's of yards away.
They can. If you don't have Mallards though, you need to focus on the birds you do have and a Grey drake call can be deadly on Greys.
Posted on 11/15/17 at 5:11 pm to JL
If you’re just starting to blow a duck call, go with a single reed. More versatile than a double reed, and just sounds sounds better IMO. Once you can blow a single reed, you will be able to pick up any call and make it sound ducky.
Prob 90% of my hunts are in flooded timber. There no way you can get away with soft calling up here unless it’s near the end of the season, or on a cloudy, still days. We stay on our calls hard all the way down. If we don’t, those ducks are just gonna drift off to the bunch set up down from us.
I can’t speak for the south LA guys. They seem to do better with softer, less aggressive calling. Just watch the birds. They will let ya know what they want. Just don’t be afraid to hit em hard ccasionally. I don’t believe you can blow a duck out of a hole. If that was the case, we wouldn’t kill shite. JMO of course.
Prob 90% of my hunts are in flooded timber. There no way you can get away with soft calling up here unless it’s near the end of the season, or on a cloudy, still days. We stay on our calls hard all the way down. If we don’t, those ducks are just gonna drift off to the bunch set up down from us.
I can’t speak for the south LA guys. They seem to do better with softer, less aggressive calling. Just watch the birds. They will let ya know what they want. Just don’t be afraid to hit em hard ccasionally. I don’t believe you can blow a duck out of a hole. If that was the case, we wouldn’t kill shite. JMO of course.
Posted on 11/15/17 at 5:26 pm to JL
Call at their butts til you see blue on the wings, then shut up!
Learn the “chop chop” and the paralyzer “
Forget feeding chuckles, ducks don’t make that sound when feeding or ever.
Most of the videos are crap. Find an old vhs copy of Phil Robertson’s first tape, I think it was him and warren coco.
Go listen to real ducks, not people who think they sound like ducks.
Learn the “chop chop” and the paralyzer “
Forget feeding chuckles, ducks don’t make that sound when feeding or ever.
Most of the videos are crap. Find an old vhs copy of Phil Robertson’s first tape, I think it was him and warren coco.
Go listen to real ducks, not people who think they sound like ducks.
Posted on 11/15/17 at 5:33 pm to JL
something to remember is that the call is to draw attention to your spread...
pretty much that's it...
it's very easy to blow them out if you call too much...
once you get their attention be quiet and watch how they react...
if they're coming let them come...
if they turn off...low quacks and chuckles to get their interest back...
I only blow at wing tips and tail feathers...
pretty much that's it...
it's very easy to blow them out if you call too much...
once you get their attention be quiet and watch how they react...
if they're coming let them come...
if they turn off...low quacks and chuckles to get their interest back...
I only blow at wing tips and tail feathers...
This post was edited on 11/15/17 at 6:58 pm
Posted on 11/15/17 at 8:16 pm to JL
Take it from a dumbass-you do not need 12 hundred-dollar duck calls to call a gd duck. 
This post was edited on 11/15/17 at 8:17 pm
Posted on 11/15/17 at 8:18 pm to majoredinwhitehorse
Listen to this dude. Phill lays it down in Art of Commanding Ducks, the first one.
Posted on 11/15/17 at 9:13 pm to JL
Learn to quack.
Never make a call you haven't heard from a duck before.
If you call and they turn away stop. If you call and they turn at you, stop.
Never make a call you haven't heard from a duck before.
If you call and they turn away stop. If you call and they turn at you, stop.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 1:52 am to JL
I'll give my 2 cents. It'll echo a lot of the good advice here.
You don't have to be able to call to kill ducks, but if you learn the art properly you will kill more ducks.
Don't try to be the guy tying in 6 quacks into a feed chuckle into a bouncing hen into a feed chuckle that resembles 80 ducks... that shite is stupid
As far a learning how to "quack". I watched about 50 YouTube videos. One that stuck with me was a guy describing the "air". His description was equating it to saying hut as a QB. It should be a deeper "hotter" air.
If you don't have mallards, learn the whistles. However, if you kill greys you can use those mallard calls. It's a quicker raspier quack, but it works well.
Hail calls are useful at the butts. Lighten up some on the tips. Soft quacks as they approach. Put the damn call down when they are committed.
Good luck
You don't have to be able to call to kill ducks, but if you learn the art properly you will kill more ducks.
Don't try to be the guy tying in 6 quacks into a feed chuckle into a bouncing hen into a feed chuckle that resembles 80 ducks... that shite is stupid
As far a learning how to "quack". I watched about 50 YouTube videos. One that stuck with me was a guy describing the "air". His description was equating it to saying hut as a QB. It should be a deeper "hotter" air.
If you don't have mallards, learn the whistles. However, if you kill greys you can use those mallard calls. It's a quicker raspier quack, but it works well.
Hail calls are useful at the butts. Lighten up some on the tips. Soft quacks as they approach. Put the damn call down when they are committed.
Good luck
Posted on 11/16/17 at 4:19 am to JL
One thing I learned the hard way is that calling cannot correct concealment mistakes.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 5:35 am to JL
Like others said, less is more. Call at the arse. I find the most important thing is cover. You can have good looking decoys and good spot, but if birds see you, they ain’t coming. I’m a cover nazi in the blind. And no I definitely don’t use face paint. Just keep your face down and look through the grass. I have barely blown my call this year. Whistles and jerk string is my go to.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 8:04 am to JL
Learn the drake whistle. It is deadly on working mallards if someone else is blowing a hen call. Same call can be used for pintail, widgeon and teal.
6 in 1 call
On learning to blow a call -
1. learn the correct pressure for your call to make a single quack perfectly, then
2. Learn the cadences used by ducks. Sometimes a sitting hen will blow ascending 9 note quacks (I listen to them from my deer stand every hunt), but when ducks are making a wide circle on you sometimes it only takes 3-5 contented quacks to keep them working.
All the advice on here is good, and I listened to a lot of good callers while learning.
CADENCE is key.
6 in 1 call
On learning to blow a call -
1. learn the correct pressure for your call to make a single quack perfectly, then
2. Learn the cadences used by ducks. Sometimes a sitting hen will blow ascending 9 note quacks (I listen to them from my deer stand every hunt), but when ducks are making a wide circle on you sometimes it only takes 3-5 contented quacks to keep them working.
All the advice on here is good, and I listened to a lot of good callers while learning.
CADENCE is key.
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