As a way to introduce folks to the IronBands.com Band Database, the Official Unofficial Band Database™, we are offering a Giveaway.
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Up for grabs is an all black acrylic Tule Short Barrel, double reed timber call from Sutter Basin Duck Calls located in Yuba City, CA. The call is finished with a stainless band. The random drawing details follow.
About the Duck Call
The area known as the Sutter Basin is well known for it's diverse habitat of natural wetlands and cultivated rice, and includes the Federally owned Sutter National Wildlife Refuge. The duck and goose hunting there can be outstanding given the right conditions.
Gene Carter, the founder and owner of Sutter Basin Duck Calls, sent us this beautiful call for the Giveaway.
To be honest, it had been some time since we had blown a double reed mallard call, so we weren't quite sure what to expect.
To take the photo, we took a short trip to a nearby marsh that developed from an old oxbow that was once part of a river that still runs through town. There are some resident waterfowl there, but we also see a fair number of migratory birds, primarily mallard and wood duck, that annually use the area. Almost like clock work, the ducks depart in the early morning, and return each afternoon to roost for the night.
Though our primary focus was to snap a few photos of Gene's call that afternoon, how could a duck hunter in the marsh with duck call in hand resist the opportunity to give the call a run. You guessed it, we couldn't.
The call ran smooth. It felt familiar, almost like a single reed, but not quite the same. As for tone, the ducks within ear shot loved it. With just a little calling from both ends of the spectrum, quiet and soft to loud and aggressive, we soon had mallards swimming and flying to us to investigate.
To Learn More and Enter the Giveaway
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To enter the Giveaway, submit your waterfowl band information to the IronBands.com Band Database. You can enter as many of your reported duck or goose bands as you desire, and with every entry you increase your chance of winning.
You have until September 30, 2010 - 11:59 PM, PST to enter. Date subject to change. Void where prohibited.
Determining the Winner and Processing the Giveaway
The winner will be randomly selected and announced here on Monday, October 4, 2010.
Once the winner is announced, they should contact IronBands.com via email within ten days to make arrangements to collect their call. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Should your call not be available, you will receive a voucher for it and it will be made available as soon as possible.
Good luck to all and we wish everyone success.
Congratulations to the winner! - hickunit
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