Every duck hunter should carry a duck whistle. They’re highly effective, greatly underutilized, and mine are very unique. These make a perfect mallard drake call, as well as imitating greenwing teal, pintail and widgeon. When it is late in the season and the ducks have heard everyone north of them highballing at the top of their lungs, they don’t always respond well to calling. The soft “dreeet” of a mallard drake whistle will often get working ducks to commit when nothing else will.
Wingert’s Woodworks duck whistles are the perfect gift for the duck hunter that has everything. Most duck hunters have hundreds of dollars of calls hanging from their neck, and they appreciate the quality and craftsmanship of those calls. But their whistle is usually a cheap imported plastic version that is nothing to be proud of. A high quality whistle made from figured exotic hardwood, acrylic or Corian is something you can hang on your lanyard with pride. There’s nothing to tune with these. No parts to adjust or lose. They are an excellent way to help kids (or your friends that can’t call worth a darn) get involved in working ducks as opposed to sitting and watching an experienced caller do all the work.
Whistles start at $45 and rarely exceed $55, depending on material. Stabilized woods are always $55. That price includes USPS Priority Mail shipping in the USA. As with all of my calls, whistles are custom made to order, and we can work together to select the perfect piece of material for your whistle. Material selection varies, but I always have a good selection of beautiful and unique blanks for you to choose from.
The whistles pictured above are made from acrylic stabilized spalted big leaf maple burl. One is dyed green, the other is not dyed.
All of the whistles laying down are cocobolo, the one standing up is stabilized spalted big leaf maple burl.
The outside whisltes are stabilized spalted maple, the middle one is stabilized curly redwood.
The whistle above is made from stabilized spalted black ash burl, a very rare wood.
