Duck call

Hunters would use the air from their diaphragms into the call while saying "hut", "wuit", or "oak" to make the single quack.

The more experienced callers simply push the air from their diaphragms with no words to be spoken into the call.

Different waterfowl hunters have varying opinions on what the best type of duck call is and when it is most effective.

Another key difference is that acrylic is known to show less sound variance over the temperature ranges expected in a duck blind.

His most unusual call was the “Allen Nickel-Plated Duck Caller” which was made of metal but froze to the hunters' lips and had to be re-made using wood.

[4] From 1900-1910 many modifications were made to duck calls such as; the straight tone boards were replaced with curved ones, wedges were replaced with groove and cork locking systems, and there began to be production of duck calls made out of materials other than wood such as rubber and acrylic.

[4] It was made of a strong hard rubber-plastic that allowed hunters to change the volume and tone of the call.

Many hunters would modify it to change the sounds and eventually this led to the production of the “cutdown” duck call.

[4] Mid-1930 through the 1950s, father and son Clarence and Dudley Faulk produced some of the first plastic duck calls as well as several wooden ones.

[3] In the early 1940s George Yentzen and his partner Cowboy Fernandez designed, invented, and patented the first double and triple reed duck calls from Black Walnut wood.

[7] His product and name have become increasingly famous since his son, Willie Robertson, turned the company from a family business into a multimillion-dollar empire.

In 1980, the rock band Genesis used duck calls, listed on the sleeve as 'duck', to trigger sounds on a Yamaha CS-80 polyphonic synthesiser when recording their album 'Duke'.

This design came from Kirk using Olts in the past and the hard rubber relaxing causing the caller to sometimes lose the insert when hunting.

The feed is a sequence of rapid short notes of varying pitch that imitate ducks eating.

Other species make many different sounds, ranging from high-pitched whistles to very low, grunt-like quacks.

The quack of a mallard drake requires voice and is replicated by humming into a special whistle-like call.

In teals, the drakes make a call of short bursts of a high pitch whistle.

The majority of duck sounds such as quacking people have heard and are familiar with comes from female, or hen, mallards.