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A call to teach

By Mike Suchan
ESPNOutdoors.com

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Photo galleries STUTTGART, Ark. — Teaching people how to sound like a duck is Butch Richenback's life calling, and if you don't do it right, he might whack you with a stick. Not hard, mind you. Just enough to get your attention. Shelby Free, 16, has felt his correcting wrath aplenty over the past 10 years. "I come up here a lot during the summer, and we just sit down, chat," the competitive duck caller said. "I'll start practicing, and he'll get that stick and he'll hit me if I'm no ...

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