How to Blow a Duck Call
Being able to blow a duck call has become a sport in itself, with annual competitions to crown the best duck callers. The variety of duck calls has grown over the years and is limited only by the imagination. Duck calls range from simple homemade calls to elaborate ones that can cost more than $100. How you blow a call depends on what type of duck you are calling and the purpose of your call.
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Instructions
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Start by learning how to blow into a duck call. Hold your duck call in your trigger hand and position it to your lips as if you were drinking a bottle of soda. Blow into the duck call from your diaphragm to get a full, rich sound.
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Practice by speaking words into your duck call like "kwit" or "dwit". Once you learn to make the duck sound with those words, practice varying the pitch of the sound by positioning the duck call differently.
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Learn the basic duck calls by starting with a simple "quack." Practice finishing the word so you hear a clean, crisp "ck" at the end of your quack. Practice pronouncing the quacks in a series of 5 to 7 repetitions until you can hear the sounds distinctly from each other. Keep your calls short and crisp.
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Practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for continual practice. Do not give up. You will have it mastered very quickly.
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