The GREETING CALL | How To Blow A Duck Call

We're going to talk about the wave

call

today and the wave

call

is a call that I like to use when I say hello

duck

s, I see you, we're down here, you guys need to come to the spread, it's a great call to use in conjunction with the quack. and if you haven't seen the healer's instructional video, you should watch it if you need a

duck

call because you need to know how to do the quack before you can do the salute so that the salute. The call is just a sequence of 5 notes, 5 to 7 notes and it's just squawking together.

Something to keep in mind is that it's not the same quack volume five or seven times, however you want to do it, you want it to be a descending cadence, so you'll start loud and then gradually lower the volume as you go through the sequence. Now the call I'm using is my Rick Haney call double somersault and it's an acrylic double read and I love it. I used it. to miss a single reading, but then I answered Rick's call and I loved this call, it's just so easy, it sounds so good and I love it, it's a great call, so if you are interested in watching Rick's calls, I will do that. leave a link in the description, but if you don't have to buy the expensive calls, if you're just getting into duck hunting, you can buy a twenty-five dollar polycarbonate, get used to knowing duck hunting.

If it's something you like and if you like duck hunting you want to progress, I recommend an acrylic call, they are a little louder, they sound a little different than polycarp calls and that's all I use are acrylic calls once again , how to hold a call make this hand put your call there wrap your thumb put these two fingers down and just leave these fingers here to help tune the call think of this like a duck's mouth, you open it and close it while the duck quacks

greeting

call, like I said, it's five notes and you basically do the same thing you do with the healer, except several times in a row, so I do it like this, I'm saying hoot or whistle on the call, practice with that, that's what more important.

With the duck call you can watch these videos over and over again, but you really have to practice to figure out how your body works because, like I say, things may not work exactly for you, but it's the same principle that you want. air coming out of your gut you want to squeeze it, bring it up through your chest and then rough in your throat you don't want to just

blow

the air out it's not good, that's not what a duck sounds like, you want to make sure you make it rough in your chest and throat coming from your diaphragm and pressurizes that air in the call that I now like to make after each route, you have to make sure to cut that air with your tongue, otherwise your notes will blend together. you want five to seven separate notes when you do this you don't want it to be like that you want I can't hit hard anymore so it causes harm because it's like muscle memory for me you want to make sure I have five distinctive notes, one, two, three, four or five , and what helped me from the beginning to call and lower the cadence is to say three blind mice, quack, pretty simple, that's how you get the kind of cadence of a duck, three blind mice, quack. squawk, so at the end of the call you're going to say so I don't know if they can hear this.

I'll do it directly into the microphone. Hopefully you can hear that cut on the mic because I can hear it myself. so on the barrel call here we're going to do it and we're going to go a little slow here now you can play with that. I like to add a little wine. I started doing that and I don't know. yes it's a bad habit, but it seems like every time I do a Salute Cola I always add a little bit of wine where I pinch that air a little bit slower at the back of the but basic principles here you can make it long, you can make it short, like this that plays with it, there's really no exact speed, you can go many times when a duck quacks in the air, I'll call you back, but faster, that's how they go and I'm trying to do it basically. if they do that five note sequence, chances are you'll end up doing that five note sequence too, so play with it when you're working, you can mix in some chatterboxes, you can do the five note, you can do a seven note. and then you can basically put it together, but remember to cut after each note, you're basically going fine, that's what it sounds like when you mix in some squawks, mix up the cadence a little bit and speed up. you speed it up, you slow it down and you can put it together like this when you call some ducks and most of the time I don't do this kind of thing unless there's a big group and I'm in a field and I want to sound like a bunch of ducks if I'm in a swamp or just in a small pond or something like that.

I don't want to sound like a million ducks. I want to sound like maybe one or two ducks singing to those ducks, but here it is. what it sounds like when you mix it when you're practicing just play with it, make sure you've got the basics down, get that five note sequence and then move on to mixing things up, but it takes a lot of practice, that took me. It took me a long time to learn to call like I do today and I still have room to improve, but calling Docs, you don't have to be a world champion duck caller to get ducks into your spread, learn those fundamentals and know you can. just quack and add a five note sequence and just take your time working with those ducks, don't call too much because you can call the ducks too much, so take your time, read the ducks and see what they like. if they don't like it and just play with it, so if you want to slow down and wait to see what the ducks do, they start flying and then they come back, take your time to work, those ducks read the ducks, watch what they do .

I like to see what they don't like, but as a general rule, if they fly away, call them a little louder, we'll get into the call back in the next video, but that's it for this one, I hope. this helped you guys if you are new to the channel make sure to hit the subscribe button and leave me a like guys it really helps but you can follow me on my social media. I have Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook. Follow me there and stay up to date with what's going on, but that's all I have for this video, tune in next time for the callback.