Duck Lander Call Co.

Duck Lander Call Co. Ducklander Calls was established in 2004 by Bobby Hayes. Ducklander's goal is to provide high quality, hand crafted wood/acrylic calls for an affordable price.
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Taking advantageOne thing I’ve learned about mallards over the years:If they’re low and looking, or in the mood to dry f...
06/01/2026

Taking advantage

One thing I’ve learned about mallards over the years:

If they’re low and looking, or in the mood to dry feed, the X is where you make it.

Give me my LT, a spinner or three, and a treeline to work with, and I like my odds.

This was a pasture near a dry feed.

Hard to beat making ducks do something they weren’t planning on doing with a call.

This was a cold one!!

Bobby

Supporting the causeJust finished up a batch of M-Series calls, my hand molded call and whistle combos, for one of the l...
06/01/2026

Supporting the cause

Just finished up a batch of M-Series calls, my hand molded call and whistle combos, for one of the local DU chapters.

Hope they do well this weekend.

The ducks need all the help they can get right now.

Bobby

PS: If you’re at the Du Jayhawks dinner this weekend, I’ll see you there.

Playing FavoritesThe older I get, the less I remember individual hunts.The ducks that do it extra right become my favori...
05/30/2026

Playing Favorites

The older I get, the less I remember individual hunts.

The ducks that do it extra right become my favorites. Those get burned in my brain. Especially if it involves sunshine or snow falling out of the sky.

If you’re a waterfowler you know exactly what ducks I’m talking about.

I can replay those ducks whenever I want.

Bobby

The Acker ProjectMaterials: Bloodwood, Canarywood, and ABWModels: WhistlesRoad rash and memories.This one has a backstor...
05/29/2026

The Acker Project
Materials: Bloodwood, Canarywood, and ABW
Models: Whistles

Road rash and memories.

This one has a backstory a lot of us know too well.

Brandon and his dad were hunting the Upper Mississippi in Wisconsin. I’m guessing they were having a pretty good day and probably killing a few birds.

After they loaded the boat and got rolling, his dad realized his wallet was gone.

We all know that o s**t feeling.

They pulled over and started looking for his dad’s wallet. What Brandon found first was his lanyard hanging off the trailer tongue.

The whistle got chewed up pretty good, but the wallet and the lanyard both made it home.

Bobby

Tribe,Goose call talk. How do you know what call you need out of the four call models I build? The best place to start ...
05/28/2026

Tribe,

Goose call talk.

How do you know what call you need out of the four call models I build? The best place to start is with you. Your skill set, how you hunt, and where you hunt.

G40 — Lesser call. Very small, fast, and loud. Hardest one to run. In the right hands, it is also a great option on big geese if you want another tool in the calling toolbox. This is not built for new callers. A new caller will beat his head against the wall trying to learn on a call this size.

G45 — Mid sized call with a straight .625 bore. Think less volume and a more goosey sound. This can be an everyday call depending on how you hunt. I use this one a lot over water and pair it with my louder models as a staple on my lanyard. Good callers like this call when they want to lay off the volume. It is also a great call for new callers trying to figure out the short length goose calls.

G50 — Mid sized call with an open exhaust. This is the do-all call. You can hunt all honkers with this one call. This is the caller’s call. Not my first recommendation for new callers, but manageable most of the time.

G60 — Full length honker call with an open exhaust. This is the call I put in the hands of new callers or anybody trying to figure out the basics of running a short reed. Longer goose calls are easier to learn on. Good callers use the G60 when they want a big, deep sounding goose.

Bobby

Things I like. A lot.Loaf pond loaded with honkers by 10 a.m.East wind at 5, building to 15 by midmorning.Sitting in the...
05/27/2026

Things I like. A lot.

Loaf pond loaded with honkers by 10 a.m.
East wind at 5, building to 15 by midmorning.
Sitting in the east draw, in the only cover on the pond.
Layout blind coffee.
Mud on everything.
20 gauge.
Kent Bismuth .
G50 on the lanyard.
Birds leaving the roost and heading to grain right on schedule.

Bobby

SOLOI look at solo runs as a chance to mess with the hide, the setup, the calls, and the calling. The only audience is t...
05/27/2026

SOLO

I look at solo runs as a chance to mess with the hide, the setup, the calls, and the calling. The only audience is the birds, and I can play the game however I want.

A lot of these aren’t about the X. They’re about finding places I can make a hunt happen.

I had been after honkers pretty hard all last season and was playing with a few new goose call designs, looking for all the different ways I could use the Flapper Goose from Lucky Duck, and a few other really dorky things I will not mention.

This pond was ideal for that. The honkers had been using it off and on, but nothing steady. Mostly they were trading over the top during a warm stretch, going from the roost to the loaf.

I’m a bird nerd. I can’t help it.

Bobby

Wood vs. acrylic. Which one’s better?That’s a hard question to answer because there really isn’t a right answer.If we’re...
05/26/2026

Wood vs. acrylic. Which one’s better?

That’s a hard question to answer because there really isn’t a right answer.

If we’re talking straight performance, acrylic wins that one hands down. It’s not affected by weather like wood. It turns better, machines cleaner, and the material lends itself to tight tolerances and repeatable results.

If we’re talking sound, that’s where it gets more personal. A lot of guys will tell you wood is duckier. Hard to argue with that when you hear a good hedge or cocobolo call. Especially hedge.

Then you’ve got tradition, and a lot of that depends on when you came into waterfowling.

My WWII era uncles were all about wooden duck calls and walnut stocked Belgium A5's. I’m a 90s era waterfowler, so to me duck calls are high performance, high precision tools meant to finish birds, not stick, have range, and need very little maintenance.

Then again, I’ve also got a thing for black Italian made boom sticks with plastic stocks that need zero babying.

From a duck hunting standpoint, I like having as many tools in the calling toolbox as I can.

That’s why I build both

Bobby

I can give you the whole feature list. Quad Air Grooves. Laser Cut Reed System. Tight tolerances. Complete call line up,...
05/26/2026

I can give you the whole feature list. Quad Air Grooves. Laser Cut Reed System. Tight tolerances. Complete call line up, Twenty plus years behind the lathe. The big one, Duck Lander is here for the ducks, which means it’s here for you, I could keep going.

All of that is great stuff and I am super proud of it.

But, nothing is better than experience, your buddy sees the call put ducks on the deck, feet dangling in the sunshine, and decides he needs to up his game and hang one on his lanyard

No social post beats that.

Bobby

I’m in the packaging room today for an all day shipping marathon, listening to this Ron Swanson looking guy talk about B...
05/22/2026

I’m in the packaging room today for an all day shipping marathon, listening to this Ron Swanson looking guy talk about Bigfoot and putting the final touches on this year’s Select Calls, Batch #6.

The hand turned calls built in honor of the men that helped get us into waterfowl hunting. The kind of old guys that probably changed our lives more than most ever will.

There are still a few left on the site if you missed picking one up.

If I get far enough today to fill up Miss Kyra’s mail jeep by quitting time, I’ll announce who pulled the lucky number and won the Yellow Cedar Burl LT giveaway.

If not, I’ll do that Monday.

Big thanks for all the orders. I appreciate it!!

Bobby

https://ducklandercalls.com/collections/bobby-hayes-select-batch-6

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