Duck Shooter Slot Machine

Put your best outdoor gear on and oil your virtual shotgun to go on a duck-hunting tour on Duck Shooter. Join the many fans of this popular outdoor activity on the latest 2018 offering from German game provider Gamomat (formerly Bally Wulff). Adjust your gun visor right to enter the bonus round, where any hunter symbol on the reels will shoot at ducks for guaranteed wins. The more hunters there are, the higher the win you can claim, with up to 2,500x your bet up for grabs.

Gamomat has a long history of producing entertaining slot games for casino floors. Going into the 21st century, it also began to cater to online casinos. Founded as early as 1950, the brand now forms part of the German gaming company group Schmidt.Gruppe. Many of its slots are built around a storyline and have become instant hits with players from around the world. Gamomat's latest exciting releases include 40 Thieves, Book of Crazy Chicken, Thor’s Hammer and Ramses Book. Duck Shooter is taking us back to the good ol’ days of duck hunting.

The Duck Hunting Reels

A marsh swamp in the early morning hours is the natural background for Duck Shooter. The hunting grounds are five reels wide, four rows high, and count 10 to 30 flexible paylines. Sharp graphics and flawless animations are proof of the high-quality standard we know from this game provider. A rather catchy but simple soundtrack goes into a dramatic crescendo on big wins.

The slot has nine pay symbols, starting with Js through to As at the low end. The premium symbols in ascending order of value include a duck, a water flask, shotgun cartridges, a set of binoculars and a hunting dog. Only the duck symbol appears stacked on all reels, and it will play a special role in the free spins round. The hunter is the wild symbol, appearing in the free spins only. The scatters come in the form of gun visors, with a minimum of three needed to trigger the bonus round.

The Duck Numbers and Stats

The RTP of this medium-variance game is set at the industry-usual 96%. The amount of paylines can be changed before any spin to range between 10, 20 and 30 lines. However, it is not possible to do so during the free spins round. Bet sizes from 0.30 to 18 credits will provide the ammunition for your adventure on the maximum 30 paylines. Lower bet sizes apply to 10 and 20 paylines. Wins for a five-of-a-kind range from 3x to 66x the stake. Single and stacked duck symbols will award you with base game wins of up to 200x your bet. Score well in the bonus round, and your hunting bounty could increase to 1,500x your stake.

The slot is designed in the modern HTML5 standard, making it available for play on desktop, table and mobile across all OS platforms. Auto play will spin continuously until interrupted. In some markets, the amount of consecutive auto spins is limited, and it also requires you to set up a loss limit.

The Hunting Free Spins

Three, four, or five gun visor scatters in one spin will award 10, 15, or 25 free spins, which cannot be retriggered. During the round, a hunter and a special duck symbol are added to the reels. The hunter can appear on all reels and will act as a wild symbol, paying first any potential line wins. Next, he will shoot all duck symbols present on the reels. The standard duck symbol will award a coin win of 5x the bet, while the special duck symbol, marked “Super Shot”, will pay 50x bet. Up to five hunters can land in one free spin, each shooting at the ducks and awarding the coin wins.

Other Hunting Reels

Duck and goose hunting has long been a favorite pastime. An essential way of providing food during prehistoric times, hunting became an outdoor sport activity in more modern days. Hunters scour the marshes in small groups, often using special duck call whistles to attract the birds. Very often, hunters use dogs to collect the ducks or geese that have been shot.

Naturally, hunting has been a widely used theme on video slots. The action of hunting stretches across a wide array of targets – covering ducks and frogs, but also bounties, treasures and trolls. If hunting or ducks are your favorite themes, you could also try a few spins of Count Duckula from Blueprint Gaming, Kate Lee Bounty Hunter from Amaya, or Hunting Party from Booongo.

A Duck Verdict

What was my reaction after spinning the reels on Duck Shooter: quack, quack or yahoo? To be honest, I am somewhere in between. The slot’s positives are its high-quality design, the flawless animation and the rather high frequency of free spins. The win potential at 2,500 times the bet is also somewhat acceptable, although it’s far from what today’s exciting slots offer – which goes well past 5,000 times the stake. I think it will be very hard to hit that top win, or even one that’s close to the maximum, on this slot. For that it needs multiple “Super Shot” symbols on every free spin, where one or more hunters land on the reels. My test runs have shown that it just won’t happen that frequently.

However, the Duck Shooter slot is good for regular wins ranging from 50 to 200 times the initial stake in the bonus round. Got your shotgun oiled and loaded? Then join the hunter on the reels of this Bally Wulff slot, and bring home a big hunting bounty.