Entrepreneurial Spirit Calls Student Killian Bailey to Start Online Business

What started as a creative way to provide a special holiday gift has turned into a budding entrepreneurial enterprise that has combined a Rose-Hulman student’s knowledge of engineering design and love of hunting.

Killian Bailey is putting technology in the hands of today’s sportsmen and women, literally, through specialized waterfowl calls produced by his three-year-old online company Bailey’s Game Calls.

A patent-pending approach uses 3D-printing technology to manufacture affordable plastic calls that have distinctive tones, float (making them hard to lose when dropped in water) and can be crafted specifically for each hunter or as a corporate/company novelty item.

“You have to have the right call with the right tone to attract the ducks (mallards, geese, or wood ducks) and every hunter has his/her own distinct personal preference,” says Bailey, an engineering design major from Rochester,…

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