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I've only used mouth calls and I do believe boars eat cubs...........so, cub distress might work great.
Cub distress will call in both sows and boars. The problem is sows often leave cubs behind when they come in.
Thanks for the info. I have another question for ya. While callin for bears, do you think it hurts to change calls? Use a calf distress for 10 or 20 minutes and then switch to something else?
I have never used a calf in distress call. But I could see how you might want to start off with lost calf, then change to a distressed lost calf and then into a full blown calf distress.
Late to the party, but I don't worry about changing sounds with bears, like I do with coyotes. It seems like they will just keep coming in, once they hear a noise, and have made their minds up to investigate. When hand calling I only vary the cadence and emotion. 90% of the time it is a fawn distress since it is easy to blow for long periods, and is effective. The other 10% is a raspy jackrabbit, elk calf calls or cub squalls. With my foxpro, I really like the antelope fawn distress. It works better than their deer sounds for calling in whitetail or muleys too. I've played around with the calf sounds since their are free range cattle in some of the areas I hunt, and I have used the elk sounds as well, with very limited success, but to be fair I hardly ever vary from fawn distress. I have only called on the east side.Thanks for the info. I have only hunted on the east side also. I will have to try the antelope one you mentioned. I have a Foxpro as well and am anxious to give it a try on bears. Have you had much luck calling fall bears?