Rick Dunn
Rick Dunn – Beebe, Arkansas.
Dunn is a former World Champion Duck Caller and the founder and president of Echo Championship Duck Calls. He started competition calling in 1983 and won the World’s Championship Duck Calling Contest in 1997.
He soon started his own duck call making business under the name Echo Championship Duck Calls and today Echo calls have won more than 100 state, regional and World Championship duck calling contests.
He has judged the World’s Championship Duck Calling Contest many times in the past, as well as state and regional duck calling contests.
It was in 1975 that he decided to try and make his own duck call. His first attempts were poor to say the least, but he didn't give up. He knew he could make a call that would suit him. The funny thing about Dunn’s calls was that every time he hung one of his calls around his neck, someone wanted to buy it.

Barnie Calef
Barnie Calef – Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
He is a three-time former winner of the World’s Championship Duck Calling Contest. He won the title of World Champion Duck Caller in 1989, 1999, 2000.
When Calef walked off the stage in Stuttgart, Arkansas, in November 2000, he had won his third World Duck Calling Championship, and in doing so, became the first person in 26 years to win back-to-back championships.
His third title, which forced him into automatic retirement, put him into an elite fraternity of callers. Only five others have won three world titles since the inception of the contest 74 years ago.
In addition to his three world championships, he has 8 top 10 finishes at the world, as well as 13 state and regional titles and the 1999 K's Traditional Championship.

Buck Gardner
Buck Gardner – Germantown, Tennessee.
Gardner is recognized as one of the top duck callers in the nation. He won the 1994 World’s Championship Duck Calling Contest, and in 1995, he captured the ultimate duck calling trophy, “Champion of Champions,” which forced him into competition retirement.
The Champions of Champions Duck Calling Contest is held every 5 years and is open only to former World Champion Duck Callers.
He now participates as a judge in contests around the country, and every 5 years he judges the “Champion of Champions Duck Calling Contest” in Stuttgart, Arkansas, as well as occasionally for the World Contest.
He is the founder and president of Buck Gardner Calls.

John Stephens
John Stephens – Stuttgart, Arkansas.
Stephens is a three-time winner of the World’s Championship Duck Calling Contest. He is president of RNT Calls and was born and raised in Stuttgart, Arkansas – “The Rice & Duck Capital of the World.”
It was at a very early age that he chose his career path. From the age of 5 years old, he began hunting ducks and at the age of 11 he had discovered contest calling. By the age of 12, he had won his first Junior World’s Championship Duck Calling Contest in 1985, and the very next year, at the ripe old age of 13, he became the youngest person ever to qualify for the World’s Championship Duck Calling Contest – an accomplishment that still stands today.
Little did he know this first year of competition was the first in a 25-year calling career that could arguably be one of the most successful and consistent duck calling careers. He placed in the top five in the World’s Contest for 12 consecutive years. He won the World’s Championship Duck Calling Contest in 1995, 1998 and 2005, and by doing so becoming only the 6th person ever to win three titles.
He currently spends most of his time with his mentor Butch Richenback, founder of Rich-N-Tone Duck Calls, designing and making new calls in the RNT call Line.

Wayne Betts
Wayne Betts – Rogers, Arkansas.
He is the owner and founder of Betts Championship Game Calls. The company started in 1987. Betts calls have won many state and regional duck calling contests, including the 2000 Champion of Champions Duck Calling Contest won by Trey Crawford, and the 2008 World’s Championship Duck Calling Contest won by Ryan Nolan.
Betts began calling when he was 15 years old, but didn’t begin to take it seriously until his 20s. He has been contest calling for more than 20 years and has made the final round at the World’s Championship Duck Calling contest over 10 times, including a few top five finishes.
He has judged 50 sanctioned duck and goose calling contests over the years, including the World’s Championship Duck Calling Contest in 1996.
Today, Betts is a professional guide and duck call maker.