Duck Call: please help!

[jgourlay]

Gents,

Is a duck call a "suck" or "blow" instrument? I bought a couple of (pricey!) duck call inserts. They won't "quack" on blow--no sound at all. They will quack when sucked.

Admittedly, I've only poked a 5/8" hole in a piece of scrap. Could that be it? What am I missing?

[AHill]

You blow it. You are blowing into the wrong end. Blow into the end that has the unsupported side of the reed(s).

[dlgWoodWork]

You blow on the end opposite of the insert. I just uploaded a video of how I make them.

http://youtu.be/zW_If0gQQqw

At the end of the video you can see me test it out.

Btw, where did you get the inserts? I order mine directly from Echo, $6 each.

[jgourlay]

OH.....

Wow...I'ma rtard....