20 Best Double Reed Duck Call (2023 Updated)

I’ve owned and given to family members several of these other the years. We’re a duck hunting family and have calls from the $hundreds to cheap ones. This call just plain and simple “works” , if you can’t work this call you can’t work a single reed or more expensive call.

And you need to practice your technic. I never had a problem with this call freezing up, nothing like my Yentzens do.

Works great for turning mallards and spoonies on open water. Works great in the timber as well. Haven’t had the chance to work it in the flooded rice yet but I’m sure it will do well. Helps make a cloudy day better.

Good for beginners and vet’s. Will start my 7 year old on this call. Excellent price.

I have had three of these calls and two of them are still in operation, with the newest one being 7 or 8 years old. This call has a very good tone and although not my only calls, I use one of these on almost every hunt.

I get a lot of spit in a call, so just sling it out after working birds and you’re ready to go for the next bunch. It will lock up in cold weather after not blowing for a little bit, but just blow on it a few seconds and back in business.

Another thing I like is that there is a huge range to tune this call so you can get it to suit your style. When you crack one, just wrap it in electrical tape and keep calling.

This thing broke within 2 weeks of just practicing in my car. Reed sounds wack now. Starts squeaking. Bummer.

It’s a great teal call and is louder so I think it is more effective than most.

One of my favorite calls. Sounds great, easy to use, very sharp and responsive. Never freezes on me like my RNTs do. All around great call. Had it for 5 or 6 years now. Only thing I don’t like is it’s bright orange color.

I got this call before the start of the duck opener and boy am I glad I did! Amazing call with amazing sound and looks absolutely beautiful. Has great low to medium volume to work ducks in the timber or to finish them off.

A perfect call to add to your lanyard. Just a overall great call and great customer service from Echo.

This call is one of the prettiest calls I’ve ever owned. Not only does it look good, it sounds great. Bocote is not always my first choice but I don’t regret buying it at all. This thing is deep and raspy.

One of (if not) the best timber call I’ve ever used. A few minor reed adjustments (optional) and this thing instantly goes from good to great. It was a bit too deep of a tone for my taste. It’s smaller than other calls but not too small.

Fits perfectly in your hands. Super mellow. This thing brings in the birds.

I’m no serious duck hunter but I need to call ducks to train my Jagdterrier pup. I raise gamebirds as well as mallards for dog training. This call is really easy to call and sounds just like my mallards when they start quacking.

The pitch is perfect; at least to my ears. My higher priced one sounds a little too high compared to this one. Others say this will freeze in cold weather so I guess I’ll find out. Also some don’t like the fact that this call does not have a groove to attach to a lanyard.

I just put 2 round water hose gasket around it and it works fine. Might buy another for back-up if it freezes.

I’m not sure why this call rates so high. Once it gets any moisture on the reeds it stops working. I live in Arizona so it’s not freezing up. The reeds just stick together. There are numerous reviews saying the same thing so it’s not just the one I had, which I have returned.

I have used this call for two seasons now. It is a great sounding call when it works properly. The problem I’ve been having with it is that when using it to the Duck Commander guidelines, using the “ten, ten, ten” calling method, the call gets very wet inside and it does stick.

This causes it to not produce proper sounds and it’s even squeaked a couple times. It’s not difficult to pull the call apart and wipe off the reeds and put back together, but its an inconvenience to do in the blind, especially if you have birds coming in.

I have a buddy who uses this call as well and the same thing happens to him. If you can figure out a way to prevent this from happening then this is a great sounding call and well worth the money.

I bought it a few months ago for this upcoming season it sounds awesome to be honest and it looks amazing! The only thing I would say I did not like was the ring. it was just slightly loose other than that I cant wait to call some ducks in with this awesome call.

Good call. ok bottom end but when i look to buy calls from ECHO im expecting whining, Cajun squealing, pure duck. Defininelty go straight cocobolo or acrylic. spend the extra $. you will be happy you did later and will def.

find calling easier and more fun (you get what you pay for). and don’t be intimidated by the single reed if you are a beginner. if you learn to blow a single reed. doubles are a piece of cake. and on a single you can practically mimic every sound a duck makes(with a good call).

which in most double reeds you cannot. Hope this helps before buying. and if you are going to buy this call. its not a bad purchase. But def. go straight cocobolo!.

The flex tone was just not for me. Sound is not the sound I was looking for and the reed was missing when I purchased this product I will say I did not go forth the trouble to let them accommodate my order mainly because I will not use this call.

In the field extremely heavy for a duck call but super durable made of pvc I plan on using it more for dog training just to throw in my pack. But was not the intention when purchasing from the start.

The call looks extremely nice but does not carry sound as I wished.

I bought this just to keep as a backup. I’ve been using this same call for 2 or 3 seasons now. I have multiple calls on my lanyards that I paid $100+ for. None of them (so far) put ducks in the decoys any better than the Supernatural double reed.

A very easy-blown call with good raspyness at hard pressure. Does not squeal when hard blown. Pretty easy to quack low. Could have been a bit less shiny…but I guess it wears off after som use 🙂

ive had this call for a few years now and i hunt ussally timber but occasionaly open water. this call is good for both. for those guys who would prefer single wreeds or your learning to blow and want to blow a single wreed this is the call for you.

ive killed many ducks off of this call! would recomend!.

This call was recommended to me and so I decided to give it a try. It has a higher pitched raspy sound. When I first started blowing it it sounded too high pitched and then I slowed the air down and discovered that it had a real nice ducky sound to it especially when in the marsh.

I found that it will stick a little after the call sits awhile after being used. I think this is normal for most calls. I am an intermediate level caller and I am able to get most of the hen mallard sounds but it does a good Cajun Squeal which I can’t get to this extent from my other double reed calls.

This is my first call made by Echo and I am satisfied with it.

I bought this call after seeing good reviews on it and was looking for a really loud call. The call is the loudest one ive got by far but it doesnt matter since it comes nowhere near sounding like a duck.

Ive tried tuning it but the reeds were cut too short to begin with. I guess ill have to buy my reeds separate and turn it into a decent call.

This call is loud as advertised and has a solid, raspy tone. But its downfall is you simply cannot get quiet with it. It’s difficult for me to do any feed chatter with it at all. I don’t like switching between calls much so I’ve retired this one.

I received this echo duck call three weeks ago as a birthday present. I very much liked the call while practicing with it in 60 degree weather. However my first day hunting with it today in South Carolina with the temperatures in high 20s it was unusable.

High squeal and then complete stoppage. I brought it home and thawed it out but the high squeal persists.

At its low price, every duck hunter should have one of these. I have blown a ton of duck calls. You could say I have a fetish. This call has excellent range, and one of the purest mallard hen sounds I have heard out of any call, period.

During the cold, wet late-season in Michigan this call will rarely stick, and a quick burst of air backwards through the call fixes that. When I have ducks working my spread close I don’t reach for the expensive call, I reach for this.

I will never buy anything but Echo again.

I bought this call on Saturday to use it for the last day of Northern Indiana Duck Season. The call sounds great and we had no problem getting those late season birds in close. Wasn’t super cold but I had no problems with reeds sticking.

It got me my limit on the last day of late season so you can bet it will be on my lanyard for a very long time. Buy it, you wont regret it!.

The Duckmen got it right with this call. Out of the box it sounds great and is one of the most realistic calls I own. Very easy to blow, and I’d recommend for beginners or experienced callers alike. There are a few areas to grow, (hence the 4 stars): Barrel could use more sanding at mouth piece before finishing.

It still had splintering and was abrasive. Reeds seem to stick easily with moisture, which can be remedied by applying some Armor All. The barrel and insert are difficult to separate in the field for cleaning.

None of these would stop me from purchasing again though. I’d recommend this over any of the DC calls I’ve tried.

I purchased my first Origional Commander three years ago and had it on the opener in Utah. We had set up for geese and after the flocks had came in we were standing outside of our blinds in full sight with our guns still in the blinds.

My brother looked at my lanyard and asked if the shiny wood call was new, I told him on a whim I had bought it and thought it was one of the best sounding calls I had ever owned. A few minutes later a Gadwall came over our decoys high and one of the group said let’s see that call work that you have been bragging about.

I grabbed the call (while the group was laughing) and gave it a short burst, the Gaddy turned straight around and came right at us. Needless to say we almost let him get away. Since then it has happened many more times, my son is now also using it.

While out hunting people will ask about my calls. With all the hype about “Custom Calls” which I still have some of them hanging on my lanyard, I always show them what others refer to as a beginner call.

For me I have been duck hunting since I was 12 and am now 50 plus and I take it very serious. I have gotten past the shiny and price of other calls, this is a great call. I wish he also made goose calls, you cannot beat a mfg.

that uses what they build. Since then if it looks like the ducks wont turn I hear “Blow that good call again”.

The quality of these calls has dropped substantially. I have some of his “Reacher” calls from the early 90’s and the differences are plain as day. I’m not sure if all of the Duck Commander calls are being made in the same fashion as this Classic Commander I recently purchased.

If so, the quality aspect has certainly fallen to the wayside and they are just pushing out novelty items, not duck calls. My Classic Commander doesn’t even come close to sounding like a duck but would make a great Blue Heron call, if only they were legal to hunt.

I live in lower Alabama and I duck hunt public land about 90% of the time. Where I am from, we unfortunately don’t have the pleasure of hunting the thousands of greenheads, and other migrating species of duck that the hunters in the main flyways hunt.

Heck, i am a 22 year old college student and I’ve been a die hard duck hunter as long as I can remember, and with all my years of duck hunting, I can honestly say that I only see a few small groups of mallards each year while hunting (most years we don’t see any at all).

Duck hunting is a totally different ball game down here in LA, so pretty much 95% of the time, we are shooting nothing but woodies. With this being said, my duck hunting strategy and knowledge is pretty much all catered to nothing but killing wood ducks.

The reason I am saying all this information about myself, is so y’all reading this will have a good sense of my hunting habits and believe my credibility when reviewing this product. (I would not want to buy a product based off good reviews people who have little experience with other products make.

) I’m sorry and I mean no disrespect, but I wouldnt listen to someone who hunts only flooded timber and rice fields for mallards tell me how to kill wood ducks when they might have only killed one passing wood duck in there lifetime.

Any ways to the product. I have had many, many wood duck calls in my life and none of them come close to the DC wood duck call. Just about all the other wood duck calls I have had or seen, have some sort of a pinched reed system which funnels your blowing air in order make that high squeal sound.

These types of calls are very easy to blow, but you are kinda limited on the different types of pitches you are able to achieve when trying to make different woodie calls (sitting hen, sitting drake, yelp, flutter etc.

) The duck commander call on the other hand, has a reed system that I have yet to find on another call. The reed is able to “break” (shown in the video of Jase using the call I think) and the user is able to manipulate the air flow to make VERY realistic wood duck sounds.

There is a huge difference in the sound quality of the DC wood duck call than In any other call I have found. I make a big deal about sound quality and the ability to manipulate that reed because I have had calls in the past where I thought I was sounding like a wood duck sitting on the water and had group after group after group (we have a load of wood ducks in Alabama) fly by and not even think twice about coming in and we would usually go home with a few ducks.

None some days. I thought the problem was my decoys, my camouflage, my placement pretty much everything. But one day I went and bought this here DC call. Hardest call I have ever tried to blow at first.

I was so use to blowing all those other wood duck calls I could not figure out how in the world ole Phil and Jase were making that call sound the way it did. Well after about a week of practice with the call I got to where I was pretty good I thought.

Next morning went to my little honey hole on the river and broke out the call, 3 man limit of woodies (9 ducks might not sound like much, but where I’m from if you go on the river and kill a 3 man limit of wood ducks you have done something).

THEY. ATE. THAT. CALL. UP!! For someone who was not there, it would be easy to say that the call wasn’t the only reason we limited out. Well coming from the person who was there, that call is 100% the reason we got our limit.

You could see a group flying 3-400 yards away, hit that little sitting call with that flutter noise and boom, they would swoop right on in to our decoys. EVERYTIME. People who dont kill many wood ducks or know about wood duck habits would probably think “ok? so you got some ducks to come to your decoys big deal”.

The thing is, I go to that same hole a decent amount a year and they never did that before, but they do almost every time now. Anyway, Coming from someone who spends his whole life November-February every year, searching for the allusive wood duck, this call is an absolute game changer.

If the majority of your hunting is wood ducks, then I would say this call is a must for every hunt (ONCE YOU HAVE MASTERED HOW TO BLOW IT!!). But, if you’re hunting mainly mallards or other species and want an easy blowing call just in case you see a group of woodies whistle by, then I would not recommend this call unless you take the time to figure out how to blow it.

If you don’t practice and try and blow the DC call like you blow pinched reed high squeeling wood duck calls, you will not sound anything like a wood duck but instead sound like a complete idiot who has no idea how to blow a call.

P. S For those of you like me, who hunt majority wood ducks and would like to see your trips end with more ducks in the boat. Buy or make you a jerk rig and attach you about 5 or 6 wood duck decoys to it and position it out in your spread.

When you start seeing those early morning flyers, hit that DC woodie call flutter and hen sitting call and start jerking the mess out of that jerk line. They seem to not be able to resist it. It makes it look like they are chasing each other on the water which is pretty much all those stupid woodies do when they are on the water not flying or eating and the added realistic sound of the DC call seals the deal! Hope this helps!.

At first, it sounded like it’s supposed to. I could make the wood duck noises as presented on the DC videos. However, I have it sitting at my desk, and during “backpressure” practice the insert and barrel easily separated, with the reed and plastic “cork” wedge falling to the floor.

Now, I cannot reassemble it to get anywhere near close enough to the original sound (and I’ve tried orienting the reed in every direction). Note: there is not a cork stopper holding the reed against the tone board – just a piece of angled plastic with a slight cant, that “wedges” the reed over the hole as you push the insert back in the barrel.

It’s very delicate to balance and reassemble, and I’ll probably never accomplish the right sound again. I’ve resigned myself to having paid for a call that didn’t even get off the bench to play in the game.

There are a lot of wood ducks along the river around here, so now I’m done fooling around with the least expensive call out there. It’s time to take buying a duck call seriously.

The shipping was amazing and fast but when I got the call itself, it had chips all over it and was bent really bad. I told them and they sent me a new one but the new one was the same way. I just figured it might be how they manufacture them but other than the small defects great job and sounds good.

i order this online and it came in two days. i practiced some then brought it out to the field. with very little practice i almost perfected it and was calling in ducks. its hard to make a false sound on a double reed.

The only reason i didnt give it 5 etas is when the call is full of moisture from my mouth, the lower reed sticks to the bottom of the call so im forced to blow hard to unstick it. but that might just be a fault in my call and not all of them.

Got Started in bird hunting this year and bought this call on recommendation from Cabelas staff. Reeds stick together real bad, to the point were you can’t even get a sound out of it. Feeder call are non existent due to this.

My son has more fun with this call than I do. Still looking for a new call. Try it before you buy it is what I will be doing for now on!.

I used this item last season out in some flooded timber and it became my overall favorite call. I was able to turn groups of mallards, gray ducks, and some woodies. For its price its one of the best purchases I’ve made for duck hunting.

I bought it near the end of this season. I do like the sound if it however I could use so e practice with to get the sounds that I want. I will say the reeds would stick a bit at time between uses in the field.

It required blowing harder which once the air began to flow you would get an off sound initially. Overall I am happy with it and will update the review once I give it more practice.

I have a ton of calls. This call is very impressive, it is now my go to call. You can grab ducks attention from distances & flirt with them as you finish them off up close and personal. I can’t say enough about this call to do it justice.

I think this myth of single reed vs. double reed is just that & now shattered. Single reed is over rated, at least where I hunt in NJ. This is the the best double reed call on the market. Consistantly fools the weary black ducks & anything else thats within shouting distance of this call.

Thanks RNT for finally putting your talents in a call that is double reed.

The RNT Double Reed is a Great Call for Beginners and those avid everyday hunters. You can probably get any call to stick eventually, especially if you’re getting a lot of spit and grime into it. If you know how to blow a call then you shouldn’t have any problems with it sticking.

I’m a single reed person because you can’t beat them when you’re hunting every day of season. But this double reed is one of the best out there. It produces that low end sound of a single reed and the raspy end of a double reed.

If you buy this call and use it in the field you will like it. If you think it’s going to stick a lot and that’s keeping you from purchasing this call then you were filled with some wrong information.

I help guild hunts for clubs in Missouri and this is a call I recommend to those people stating out and want a call that puts ducks on their lanyard.

The duck call started having issues, I think one of the flaps was broke when it arrived. It doesn’t sound right. I think it was broken when arrived

First impressions…… feels good in my hand, looks pretty good, and sounds good!! Able to blow soft and still be crisp. Look forward to trying it out

My son purchased this with some of the money he got for Christmas. He absolutely loves it and is learning to make the correct calls. We had some avid duck hunters visit us a few weekends ago and they were very impressed with this duck call and gave my son some pointers.

Wish it would come with a link that would direct a beginner on how to correctly use it :).

Worth buying, and not cheaply made. Exactly what you would expect.

I use this call primarily for the pintail whistle, but it works great for teal, wigeon, and mallard drake calls. It is always on my lanyard every day of duck season.

Great call for 4 different ducks. Very easy to use and sounds great.

This is my second duck call. Buyed this one to have more diversity and because it s not expensive. For the price, i cannot hope better. Prefer this one to my sweet meet by Tim Ground. and the price is similar.

Just a good buy. Nice raspy sound and easy to blow. This is my second Zink call and i will continu with it. Love my pc goose call and this one. Thank to Zink for the good product and thank to Cabelas for your good service and fast shipping.

Got this call for my son as I have the acrylic version and he was always hinting at me getting him one. When I saw there was a poly version I immediately purchased one. Comparing it my acrylic Ive found it sounds nearly as good and is louder.

Overall a very well priced great sounding nice looking call. I may have to get myself one.

I bought a few weeks ago and used it for the first time yesterday. Never duck hunted tell now and I’m telling you the mallards were curious

This is an awesome call. Have three seasons on a poly Single Shot and still going strong. Very easy to operate and the judges (ducks) love its sound. I must say though, I hunt ALOT and have been blowing a duck call for 35 years.

This is a single reed. If you don’t know your way around a duck call, you will have to learn to control your air pressure to get duck out of any single reed. That’s why they are great to learn on. they force you to learn proper mechanics to get a duck out of them.

If you don’t want to learn and just want duck to come out when you blow. you need to purchase a DOUBLE Shot~~.

This is my go-to call for hunting eastern Canadas. Very easy to blow and has an awesome range of sounds. I have expensive Sean Mann’s and others on my landyard that I now ignore because the Field Proven Poly Raptor can out-do them in my hands and it’s a tiny fraction of the price of those others.

My buddies will steal this one off my lanyard first when they’ve forgotten theirs. It is high-pitched so if you want something lower for greaters or whatever, try FP’s aftershock or other models. I’m not prostaff.

I just want to get the word out about an awesome call for less $. A heck of a deal!.

This call can produce great sounds from hails to feeding. However, I gave it 3 stars because the reed sticks when it was only in the lower 40s outside. I had to switch to my double reed which didn’t stick at all.

Kind of frustrating cause I had high hopes for this call. Ill keep hunting with it on my lanyard as I have other calls I can use if this continues to happen. I will decide if it’s worth keeping or not.

It was only $30 so I’m not out a lot. I was hoping it would perform better.

I love this call. Sounds awesome. Dirty low end, great top end. Soft when you need to be, loud when you need to be. Guy that commented below with a 1 star review must not know how to blow a duck call.