We’ve all been there.

It might be after slogging through the woods with 3 dozen decoys on your back. Or maybe you had a really rough early-morning boat ride through the slough out to the blind.

Whatever happened, somehow the insert is gone from your call. You search frantically through the boat, backtrack your trail, but no luck. It felt like a good tight fit, so you didn’t think twice about only putting a lanyard loop around the barrel. You wanted more calls on your lanyard anyway and needed those extra loops for that 5th single-reed option. Now, you just have a pretty piece of hollow, colored acrylic hanging around your neck.

Each SBO call features lanyard grooves on both the barrel and the insert. It may not seem like a big deal, but trust us, lose an insert once, and you’ll never forget to double-lanyard your call again.

Some days, those ducks just won’t commit. They circle and circle, seemingly at the same height and distance. Finally, they drop in and you scratch out a couple. You’re still catching your breath, and the next group shows up.  They’re not coming in on their own, so you need those hail calls now.  You raise the call back up to your lips, and get after them again.

With our comfortably-designed mouth piece, you’ll be able to maintain your calling prowess all day, even when the ducks are making you really work for it.

“Ducks out front!  Call man, call!”

Your buddy wasn’t watching on his end, and the ducks are already out front? You reach down while watching the ducks, fumbling through your lanyard trying to grasp your call and get it up to your mouth.

Once you get the call to your lips, you have to adjust your grip again before you can let out that perfect comeback call to turn those tail feathers around. By the time you get the call up to your lips and gripped correctly, the ducks are already over the trees and looking at the next guy’s spread.

The finger groove on an SBO duck call’s insert will help you find and grip your call faster. The slight taper makes sure you grasp the call correctly and quickly every time. It’s comfortable and subtle, but we need every edge we can get against those wiley ole ducks.