About
Buck
Buck Gardner, of Germantown, Tennessee is recognized
as one of the top duck callers in the nation. He won the 1994 World
Championship and in 1995 he achieved the Champion of Champions, the
highest honor in duck calling.
Buck went on his first duck hunt with his father at the age of
six. He recalls picking up the two ducks his father had shot, stepping
in a stump hole and going in over his head. When he came up, Buck
still had both ducks in his hands. As soon as he was dry and warm,
he was ready to go out again. "You might say this was my baptism
into duck hunting", he says. "I have continued to hunt
with my dad at that very spot right up to the present and we always
talk about the day I got dunked."
In 1980, Gardner entered his first duck calling contest - and
finished last when he was disqualified for talking during his routine.
In 1981, he came back and won the first of three Alabama State
Championships. In 1982, Gardner won the Mississippi Delta Regional,
defeating 47 contestants from 17 states, including six former world
champions. He was sure a world championship would soon follow,
but it was 12 years until that dream came true.
Gardner started a waterfowl business in 1986 as a hobby. He soon
was developing championship-caliber calls. His line included an
Arkansas-style call that would blow when wet. Gardner's company
was the first to produce a compact disc on duck calling.
Besides making championship duck and goose calls, Gardner now
works as a consultant for Beretta, Rocky Shoes and Boots, Whitewater
Outdoors and War Eagle Boats among others
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