Bobby Hayes Select Calls Milestone Collection

"1918" Call

Barrel: Bocote with Hand Painted Accent Line

Insert: Bocote Sleeved with Green Acrylic and Hand Wrapped Black Cord

Band: Brass 

Tone Board: Loud Timber Hand Cut

Finish: Hand Polished Oil & Wax

1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act

The “1918” call is a tribute to that turning point. A reminder that hunting and conservation have always been tied together.

It’s easy to look back now and see the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act as a law that saved waterfowl, but the truth is, waterfowlers needed it just as much as the birds did. Before the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, there were no limits, no seasons, no guarantee that ducks would return next year. Market hunting was emptying the skies, and if nothing changed, waterfowling as we know it would have disappeared.

That law didn’t just protect the birds, it protected the future of hunting and laid the foundation for everything we stand by today, conservation, ethics, and the understanding that if we take care of the resource, it will take care of us.