Our Mission

The Minnesota Duck & Goose Callers Association was founded for the purpose and promotion of improved conservation education. It’s primary goals are to provide for increased awareness by sportsmen of waterfowl calling techniques and practices. To this end, the association, through workshops, seminars, and calling competitions will strive to produce educational activities aimed at improving attitudes, ethics, and skills of the Waterfowlers of Minnesota.

It is hoped through increased awareness and the popularity of waterfowl calling, the sporting public will generate a greater respect for and the enjoyment of the state’s natural resources.

Our Goal:  CONSERVATION THROUGH CALLING

Our History

From the 1950’s until the 1980’s the Minnesota State Duck & Goose calling contests were the only major calling contests in the state. These contests traveled throughout the state with several companies and organizations promoting them including the Minnesota Waterfowl Association and Burger Brothers.

In the late 1980’s John Molkenbur started taking down names and addresses of the contest callers and eventually came up with a list of twenty. Among those twenty were Don Parsons, Paul Englund and Curt Schuneman who gave guidance and in 1990 the Duck & Goose Callers incorporated with the state of Minnesota as a non-profit organization. The Minnesota Duck & Goose Callers is modeled after the Nebraska Duck Callers Association and even adopted their Mission Statement.

In the early 1990’s the Minnesota State Duck & Goose calling championships went to the Duck & Goose Callers. Curt Schuneman lobbied the Stuttgart Chamber of Commerce in Stuttgart Arkansas, home of the World Duck Calling Championships, and the North Star Regional Duck & Goose Calling Championships were brought to Minnesota. (The North Star Regional name was Paul Englund’s idea).