Hunting in 2003 is versatile. One day you may be hunting the open bays of the Tennessee River, and the next day you may be deep in the timber. Each situation requires a special call. One for the open bays and one for the timber. Or does it?

Wild Calls Ltd has produced the new call of the future. This call has the distance and sharpness of tone of the Reelfoot style and the easy blowing and mellow tone that is needed in the timber. It’s two calls in one. It holds good and it blows good!

Forty years ago, a great storm passed though North Mississippi. The sky grew dark and everything still and quiet. A tornado rapidly approached hitting everything in its way, including a small hickory tree. Sand and other debris was thrown through the air hitting the small tree and causing great damage-the sand embedding into the tree’s woody skin.

The tornado passed, the sky cleared, and all was left was a small portion of the hickory tree embedded with the sand particles. The top had vanished- torn from itself and thrown far away.

The years passed, forty years precisely, and the tree continued to grow taller and taller. Lumberjacks entered the area where the old hickory stood and began to harvest the trees to be used for making multiple things. Only the bottom 2/3 of the hickory was useful to the lumberjacks. The top 1/3 was the little tree that had survived the great tornado forty years before. The tree was milled, and the top of the hickory was going to be sent away and burned for fuel. It couldn’t be used for anything else. The embedded sand had caused the wood to be different, hence it couldn’t be used to make beautiful things.

Only four damaged boards remained from the tree when a wood seller noticed the wood. Its uniqueness fascinated him, and he knew that someday it could be made into something beautiful. He saved those boards and took them to his wood shop.

The hickory boards sat at the man’s store waiting to be bought, when they were eventually discovered by a man with a mission. This man sought out to create the most beautiful and unique duck calls in the world.

Here sits the duck call made from the damaged, unusable board, which was cut from the tree, who was hit forcefully with sand and debris by a great tornado, and survived forty years ago.

This call was featured in the National Call Makers and Collectibles seasonal publication.
The Tornado Hickory call can be purchased as a set or individually.

This set of calls took second place in the 2003 National Call Makers and Collectibles Competition.

This set consists of six, three inch calls. Every call is capable of reaching the Reelfoot Highball sound. Each call is made from a different wood. The six included are: purple heart, walnut, cedar, paduka, mahogany, and hickory.