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Wood,Plastic,or Acrylic

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Wood,Plastic,or Acrylic As discussed by our Pro Staff and Facebook fans

  • Sheldon Evans Hey everyone whats you favorite duck or goose call????And what is it made of???

  • Darryl Mathews I like wood on wood, or wood on acrylic. Short barrel is my favorite. My favorite calls are sold by Blow Me custom calls. Wait...... that's the name of my company. These calls are made by Dead On Calls. I buy a lot of His calls and market them under my companies name. Most of these calls I buy are sold out of the states. I will be writing a review on them in the near future. He is sending me some of his newest models for me to try out.

  • Luke Young i personally am a fan of all....i like wood for various reasons,with wood if it is a quality handmade call ie: cocabola(usually more expensive) hedgewood (great sound,usually more common and a lil cheaper..u can usually achieve loud high balls but can also get real ducky and soft..same with cocabola) some cherrywood calls are also very good sounding..theres all makes and models in the wood variety..... there are some very very very good sounding polycarbonate(plastic) calls that are being produced that have really come a long way and these also come in all shapes and sizes,colors,double reed/single reed...and seem to be the most affordable in my opinion..the most bang for yer buck type of thing. Last but not least...the acrylic call...by far the most expensive..but in an experienced callers hands can be the most deadly,once again this is my opinion..some people love others and must i say they are making some KILLER double reed acrylics that blow like and sound like a single reed acrylic. If you open my ammo box you will find a slew of calls...i use polycarbonate single reed lil joel made by southern game calls(freebie from DU,but blows awesome!!) when it gets windy i use a single reed acrylic duckbuster made by jim ludwig...who makes all my competition style calls. For the honkers i am still standing by the ol faithful "victoria honker" flute style call,wich is a molded plastic...cuz for some reason i just cant get the short reed down? enuf to hunt with...Hope i didnt ramble on too much,just got off work and im a lil amped up..not to mention i am a duck junkie!!!!!!!

  • Nick Roehl I blow Acrylic calls. I like that I can get loud with them when I need to. They just seem to have a nice crisp ring to them as well.

  • Chris Epping My favorite call is my first duck call given to me by my brother Terry. it is an OLT DR 115. I do not use it a lot now out in the blind; but when ever I blow it I am reminded of my first hunts with my Dad and Terry. The taste of the wood the sound of the call just take me back to when I was 10 years old and on my first "REAL" duck hunt; as to wher I got to call with my Dad and Terry; plus shoot my new to me Smith&Wesson Model 916T 12 gauge. With this call I can get loud when I need it and nice and soft when they are in close.~Spoonykiller~
  • Terry Mahoney My duck call is wood, goose call is acrylic. They just sound good to me and birds respond to them, even with my marginal calling.
  • Justin Tangeman I blow acrylic all the way. I feel they have a much more crisp sound to them. Also allows me to get the volume that I need
  • Adam McSparran I think there is a time and a place for all of them, but I looooove acrylics. I think they look better, and where I hunt, it brings the ducks right on in.
  • Duck Junkie/Ryan Marrinan I have a mix of both. I have a Buck Gardner wood & poly call that works great in the cold.
  • Terry Epping I love the smooth sound of a wood call, for ducks, but I use acrylics mostly, There are so many brands on the market today that i don't think there is a best just what you prefer to use. Haydels redleg for volume, Duckcommanders origional wood calls. for soft calling are good choises. But my go to calls are Foiles migrators duck and goose calls. I am just comfortable with the way they feel and sound, and the birds respond well to them, where I hunt.
  • Christopher Everett I have become an RNT fan give me wood when i need those low mellow tones on those big Ganders in the field. I love a the way acrylic high pitch sounds on water and in southern minnesota on the Mississippi I have found that the geese eat it up. For ducks i blow mainly a wood daisy cutter. I also have acrylic but i don't think you can say one is better than the other. It is totally situational and what the birds are looking for. 
  • Greg Kawaguchi I used to use a an old wood Olt duck call and acrylic goose calls. But I have switched my tune now. I use an acrylic duck call. I use wood goose calls on the river or wooded areas and acrylic goose calls in open field and pastures. I use Lynch Mob Calls great call great guy that makes them.

  • Ryan Cote I use mostly acrylic calls for ducks and geese. Although I will never trade my wood Wood Duck call made by Big River Game Calls. My choice of goose call is Lynch Mob Goose Noose. Lynch Mob calls are based out of MI where I live. My most productive duck call that stands up to the sub-zero temps and extreme wet climate MI huntesrs must face, has been a Kight & Hale Bachelorette double reed.

 

 

Quality, Quantity, or both. What’s your opinion on this age old battle question?

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Quality, Quantity, or both. What’s your opinion on this age old battle question?  As discussed by our fans and staff on Facebook

 

  • Ryan Cote My personal opinion would be quality decoys. Early in the season I tend to mimic the flock sizes that inhabit the area I am hunting. Later in the season I have been known to put a hundred plus blocks out, yet still maintaining a high standard for quality.
  • Pete Thrubis: Diver Duck hunting...Quantity. Puddle duck hunting...quality. Geese...both.  Divers like big numbers later in the season. Puddle ducks will land in 2 doz good looking blocks from the opener until the marsh is freezing up. And Geese. They need it all. IMO.
  • Duke Montgomery: I like quality but do mix some filler killers in with them to draw the new ducks. Open water hunter
  • Nick Roehl I prefer quality. I will do the same as Ryan and match what I see. But then again in late season for honkers in the field I will fill in some older mag shells with my full bodies. I know some guys that hunt with only silhouettes, and some that run only shells or full bodies. It's all personal preference, and if it kills birds stick with it.
  • David Collins I'm shure everybody prefers quality but I think you can do good with some cheap decoys set up right I like to hunt lake st Clair and you usually need alot of decoys to get them within wadeing distance from shore and with all my hobbies money is tight so I have a bunch of flambeu decoys they are cheap but I like them. The cheaper the quality the more motion I would add to the spread though, quiver mags and jerk cords.
  • Duck Junkies I think that cheep decoys will do if you are trying to pull them in for a pass shot, but if you want them in your face you need to have quality decoys. When it comes to geese I would say have at least 2 dozen GOOD decoys and the rest will make for good fillers. The larger the spread the more GOOD decoys you will want to add and make them your front runners....The decoys that will be seen the best.
  • Luke Castillo I would like to add that when you are using a jerk string or any other means of movement on the water, quality is definitely a must. Those are the dekes they will be looking at.
  • John Rotter I would have to agree with Ryan Cote. "Quantity": I use as little decoys as i can in the earlier part of the season. There is only so many birds around and how often do you think they have seen 3 or 4 dozen in a group that time of year? Then later when the migration is in full swing put out the bigger numbers thats what those birds are use to.    "Quality": Now this is also debatable. To me do you have to have the most expensive realistic decoys on the market? "NO" Most and a lot of people can't afford them. But what u can do is get old used decoys and repaint them and make them look brand new. If you are going to do this start in the summer or spring. Don't rush yourself thats when you might paint them all wrong and not notice till it's to late. And you never know you might just paint the best decoys ever.
  • Terry Epping I have to go with quality, Most of us duck hunters can't afford to go and buy dozens and dozens of decoys, so when I do spend the money, I want a decoy that will last for years, not one season. I have been hunting for forty years, and have used most every decoy on the market from the cheapest, to the most expensive, even home made. It isn't so much how the birds react to the decoy, I have taken birds over car tires cut in half, and jugs painted black and white. I would rather pay a little more for dozen great quality decoy, than four dozen cheap ones that I will have to repaint and patch leaks at the end of the season.
 


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