The finer points of duck calling aren’t mastered overnight. It’s a journey – a gradual evolution brought to maturity through experience, observation and practice.
One of the greatest keys to effective duck calling is learning how to observe and interpret responses ducks make on the wing and adjusting your calling cadence, volume or style to produce positive results. In duck calling, there’s a proper time and place for everything.
Contentment calls like the feeding chuckle signify security and are good bets much of the time. The drake mallard whistle is another call that can bring additional realism to a calling sequence, often turning mallards and other ducks towards the spread when other forms of calling fail. Blown properly and sparingly, a drake mallard whistle can work miracles on pressured ducks during quiet, windless days, and also provide convincing accompaniment and value when other callers in the hunting party are making hen talk to a group of working birds. It’s a great finishing call, too. Got a buddy who can’t talk the talk? Bless his heart. He can certainly blow a drake mallard whistle. Talk about blind diplomacy.
The bottom line is that every duck hunter should have a drake mallard whistle on his or her lanyard. And the NEW Zink Drake Mallard Whistle is the one to own.
Yeah, it looks pretty cool, with its unique, custom-painted greenhead design, but you expect a lot more than top-tier aesthetics from Zink. This call accurately reproduces the full range of low-frequency tones and vocalizations real drake mallards make when they have something to say. With practice, the Zink Drake Mallard Whistle also easily and realistically mimics the sounds of other whistling species like pintails, widgeon and wood ducks.
ZINK MALLARD DRAKE WHISTLE
- UPC: 810280060560
- SKU: 6056
- Accurately reproduces drake mallard and other whistling duck vocalizations
- Unique, custom-painted greenhead design
Calling is all about using sound to convince ducks that your location and decoy spread is a safe and happy place to be. If you don’t have a new Zink Drake Mallard Whistle on your lanyard, you aren’t telling them the whole story.