There’s a lot to catch your eye with a duck call hand turned by the custom call maker Josh Raggio. The Mississippi artisan crafts calls from gorgeous horse chestnut burl, cocobolo, African blackwood, and other grade A woods from around the world. He can checker the call in the manner of a fine double gun, add a decorative band, or even use a guitar string to score delicate burn lines that encircle the call. Even if you don’t know the first thing about calling a duck, there is something sinuous and sexy and viscerally appealing about a Raggio call.
The irony: Very little of that matters to a duck. While the shape of a call and its material