Ep. 108 From Turbochargers to Duck Calls: Inside Pardi Calls with Kevin Azzopardi & Jason Cline

This week, Jeff sits down with Kevin Azzopardi and Jason Cline of Pardi Calls (Yuba City, CA) to trace how a family machine shop that built industrial turbocharger parts turned its precision tools toward duck and goose calls. Kevin and Jason break down the design choices that make their calls easy to run—and easy to maintain—plus what’s next from the shop.What’s insideMachine-shop roots → call-making: from trains and tugboats to tone boards, why precision machining shaped their sound and reliability.Field-first design: threaded speck call guts and user-friendly assemblies you can take apart, clean, and reassemble to the same tune.Materials that matter: early aluminum bodies, today’s acrylic & wood (with anti-swelling sleeves), and a whistle designed to cover teal-to-pintail notes.New gear coming: a snow call in testing, composite/brass options, and limited custom engraving runs.Family operation: the move from the Bay Area to Yuba City (1998), in-house machining, and local anodizing that keeps tolerances tight.Where to find them: online and at the Bridge Street showroom—pick up a call, run it in person, and choose the look you like.Hunting talk: Gray Lodge stories, public-land realities, and why today’s “adult-onset” hunters are raising the calling bar.If you’re chasing a call that’s easy to blow, tough enough for rice country, and built by folks who hunt, this conversation gets you under the hood at Pardi Calls.🦆 Like the show? Hit Follow, leave a quick review, and share the episode with your blind crew—your support keeps these conversations rolling and the flyway thriving.