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#65 ·
Truth be known, whether you love them or hate them, there are probably MANY more ducks killed every year in the US by hunters using Duck Commander Duck calls than any other brand. There is no telling how many duck calls have been killed using commander duck calls since Phil started selling them in 1972. In 2012, Commander calls sold over 300,000 - that means about one out of four duck hunters in the US bought one that year.
 
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SwampCat said:
Truth be known, whether you love them or hate them, there are probably MANY more ducks killed every year in the US by hunters using Duck Commander Duck calls than any other brand. There is no telling how many duck calls have been killed using commander duck calls since Phil started selling them in 1972. In 2012, Commander calls sold over 300,000 - that means about one out of four duck hunters in the US bought one that year.
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the 1in 4 duck hunter part would be a stretch, i'd venture to say that there were a ton of people that dont duck hunt that bought a duck commander call......just because they like the show.
 
#69 ·
jas870 said:
the 1in 4 duck hunter part would be a stretch, i'd venture to say that there were a ton of people that dont duck hunt that bought a duck commander call......just because they like the show.
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You may very well be correct - but pre duck dynasty, selling 60,000 calls a year for a bunch of years still put a lot of commander calls in the duck swamp.
 
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SwampCat said:
You may very well be correct - but pre duck dynasty, selling 60,000 calls a year for a bunch of years still put a lot of commander calls in the duck swamp.
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can't argue that fact, but when i'm standing at the call counter at mack's and some guido looking goobers in affliction shirts and fake tans walk in and start talking to jimbo asking him where the duck commander calls are they've seen on the show are......that tells me that they have become a huge fad since duck dynasty and the majority of people buying them now are not duck hunters. just youtube "duck commander call".
 
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SwampCat said:
You may very well be correct - but pre duck dynasty, selling 60,000 calls a year for a bunch of years still put a lot of commander calls in the duck swamp.
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The good D/C calls were designed for a guy like Phil. Hunts every day, usually in a great spot, calling at different species of ducks. Basically little finesse, finish calls like a Haydel or old Olt.

Arkansas style calls are made to call mallards over big open water or big woods often against live ducks or other groups of hunters.

Emulate chick major if you want to be good with a call, not a guy on TV.
 
#77 ·
There is also a lot more to calling ducks than the sound of the calls. I have hunted a few times with some goods woods callers - some that have done ok in the contests - and have to tell them to quit calling if we are going to kill a duck. A lot of times, woods callers think to kill more ducks, you have to call more. Very often, where I hunt, less is more. If you get outside of the flooded timber hunting, common calls here like echo and rnt are not all that popular. I have woods hunted a lot - and to me, it is the easiest duck hunting there is. Woods hunting is more about calling than most other types of duck hunting. But, woods hunting makes up a very small percentage of duck hunting in the US. That said, the quality of sound coming out of most commander calls has deteriorated proportionately to the number of calls made. But, that could probably be said of most high volume (quantity) duck calls. I know several guys that kill a lot of ducks using commander calls - but they don't hunt flooded timber, they know when to call and when not to call, they know how and where to set a spread on an east wind, a west wind, falling or rising water, or a Wednesday or a Saturday. A $200 call or a $20 call would not make much difference to them.:up:
 
#78 ·
SwampCat said:
Truth be known, whether you love them or hate them, there are probably MANY more ducks killed every year in the US by hunters using Duck Commander Duck calls than any other brand. There is no telling how many duck calls have been killed using commander duck calls since Phil started selling them in 1972. In 2012, Commander calls sold over 300,000 - that means about one out of four duck hunters in the US bought one that year.
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I read something the other day saying that DC sold over a million calls last year........Crazy what a tv show (not a hunting show either) can do for your sales!
 
#79 ·
SwampCat said:
There is also a lot more to calling ducks than the sound of the calls. I have hunted a few times with some goods woods callers - some that have done ok in the contests - and have to tell them to quit calling if we are going to kill a duck. A lot of times, woods callers think to kill more ducks, you have to call more. Very often, where I hunt, less is more. If you get outside of the flooded timber hunting, common calls here like echo and rnt are not all that popular. I have woods hunted a lot - and to me, it is the easiest duck hunting there is. Woods hunting is more about calling than most other types of duck hunting. But, woods hunting makes up a very small percentage of duck hunting in the US. That said, the quality of sound coming out of most commander calls has deteriorated proportionately to the number of calls made. But, that could probably be said of most high volume (quantity) duck calls. I know several guys that kill a lot of ducks using commander calls - but they don't hunt flooded timber, they know when to call and when not to call, they know how and where to set a spread on an east wind, a west wind, falling or rising water, or a Wednesday or a Saturday. A $200 call or a $20 call would not make much difference to them.:up:
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This is very true, I've never hunted flooded timber, although that will change this year, but where I him I rarely use a mallard hen call after the first split because the birds get call shy and flair from the guys on them like kazoos, but a whistle with get them to commit almost everytine.
 
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SwampCat said:
...they know when to call and when not to call, they know how and where to set a spread on an east wind, a west wind, falling or rising water, or a Wednesday or a Saturday. A $200 call or a $20 call would not make much difference to them.:up:
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I was born and raised in Desha county, before duck hunting was "cool". After it did though, some of us other folks would just laugh and shake our head at the new bunch. We'd be killing ducks with old yentzen sure shots and grinning the whole time. We'd kill ducks with 4-6 decoys in a 40 acre field at times. TV sure changed alot of things. But, too that was back when we controlled things through water...every field with a pipe you could stop up wasnt flooded. It finally got to the point where instead of having a few feilds and a bunch of ducks, you had a bunch of fields and a few ducks. I finally just threw all my stuff in the shed and it's still there today...that's been about 8 years ago.

I used to work on calls for folks quite a bit and heard all this stuff similar to what's on this thread. So, one day i went to walmart and bought a $20 dollar plastic single reed Echo and then i got me one them $150 acrylics. I messed with that Echo a little bit. I would play both calls for folks and nobody could tell me which call was which. Volume was not quite as loud on the plastic Echo, but that was barely noticeable to most folks.
 
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