

His favorite bird is the specklebelly (white-fronted goose), and he's a master at calling these cagey birds into his decoys. Kelly has also guided in the Louisiana marshes for 22 years. Kelly Haydel of Bossier City, Louisiana, is promotions manager for Haydel Game Calls, the company founded by his father, Eli. It's another way of saying '"get in here right now,'" he explains. Ronquest says ducks aren't used to hearing this call, so they're more likely to respond to it. I push it pretty hard, and I vary the air pressure to break the sounds up." I tend to think of it as an assembly call. This is louder and more demanding than regular feeding chatter.
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"This is a fairly loud, rapid series of kuks with a lot of growling into the call. "So, when ducks are swinging and are at the point where it would be appropriate to blow a comeback call, I'll use an aggressive feeding call instead," he says. They've heard this call over and over, and I think they get leery of it," Ronquest says. "Late in the season, when ducks are educated by hunting pressure, they sometimes get shy of the traditional comeback call. Ronquest has guided hunters on the duck-rich Arkansas Grand Prairie since boyhood. Jim Ronquest of Holly Grove, Arkansas, was the 2006 world champion duck caller and is a full-time producer of RNT Game Calls' television shows and videos. The following calling tips from 10 such authorities will help you bag more waterfowl and experience the special fulfillment that results from talking these birds down into the decoys. They are genuine calling experts who know which sounds to make, and when to make them, to consistently pull ducks and geese into close range. Sprinkled throughout North America, however, are hunters who truly have the gift of gab with waterfowl.

"There are duck callers, and then there are duck call blowers." He undoubtedly felt that these two men belonged in the latter category.

We'd have shot more ducks if they had left their calls in their pockets, the guide grumbled. On this morning, he'd had a couple of clients in his party who wanted to help with the calling. He was a grizzled old Arkansas guide with a double-barrel attitude.
