Is a foxpro worth the money?

[rasbo]

been calling a few days myself,bought the fox pro a few yrs back and sold it.love the hand calls much better,they have worked for me for a long time.no fussing with anything,,as far as reaching out, hand calls reach out...I do have a mojo critter and thought it would be really good on cats,but has yet to show results,I had it out one morning and a bobby flanked me,coming to the call never did look at the critter,,Now that made no sense to me,knowing bobby's..If your worried about something getting in your lap stay in the truck,cause they are always damn near in my lap

[Kain]

That really depends on the person buying.  They are well made and provide a lot of features and goods sounds BUT they will not call in more animals than any other method of calling just because it says Foxpro on the side. 

I started out with hand calls and a forty dollar speaker connected to my cell phone with free MP3s from the internet.  Called in lots of animals with those.  I now own a Spitfire and I know for certain it has not improved my odds of calling in an animal.  Setup, location, camo are all more important than what call you use.  That being said I am happy with it and have no buyers remorse.  It is a big improvement in regards to ease of use.  Where I see an advantage from hand calling is keeping the sounds away from you,  reducing movement, easier when calling for long periods of time and the ability to use sounds that are not easily produced with hand calls.

It is going to be up to you if the cost is worth it.  Some guys put thousands of dollars into their hunting rifles and the guys with the $400 Savage can kill just as many animals at normal ranges.  Good camo and a padded seat are probably the best bang for the buck after your weapon.

[Snopczynski]

At my house in the outskirts of Bonney Lake, I have not heard coyotes since last summer. Last night I bought 16 new calls for the foxpro and uploaded them into it. I was running the firestorm caller in the house with the volume at about 6 for most of the calls. 40 minutes later I was laying in bed and heard two groups of yotes start up outside. Sounded like they were just at the end of the street in the woods. I cannot figure out if it was just a coincidence, or if that caller actually called them in close to the neighborhood.

[prkrgrp]

save your money for gas and a guided hunt, you will learn more in 2 days of hunting than 1 year of on line help and slogging around on your own, don't buy anything until you have 4 or 5 kills, if you must have a call get a close reed distress call, all you have to do is blow on it and it will work

[Snopczynski]

This last weekend I hunted the royal city area, and a field out in Warden. Both places I saw coyotes. The only calls that brought them into shooting range were the following female calls: coyote howls, whimpers, submissive call, and challenge. I could see the ones in the field at about 1200 yards, and when I played the rabbit distress they looked my way and started to come. However they never showed up. they went over some railroad tracks and went into a field next to us. We even blew on the mouth call halfway into the set on these ones.

Yesterday I called in two, and my cousin took shots at them, both were the female calls.

How the hell do I get the distress calls to work.

[fast1]

I used mouth calls for years with great success, then I bought a FP scorpion,it does great if ther is no wind. If there is it stays in the pick up. It just dosent put the sound out. Wish I would have either saved the money or bout a lotto ticket. The sounds are great tho. Never have been able to get the external speeker jacks to work. As far as decoys I've had a mono critter,cracked houseing but did shoot a few when in use, have a Montana decoy cojo, never took out, have a promos,never used, edge rabbit, still in box, an old arrow 6" of fishin line on a swival goin threw a hole in a old arrow, use all the time, light,easy to pack,no set up time & it gets there attention. And its cheap! Not knockin FP, but I wish I would have bit the bullet and dropped another hundred and got a midrange caller from them.

[fullpipe77]

Yes they are.  I love my furry 2.  I owned two primos alfdogg wich was nasty sounding.  After I was displeased with those, my friend has a foxpro.  So I went out and got the furry!  This thing sounds great.  Them remote is fantastic.  I have had no regrets.  The thing with buying foxpros is they do cost a lot so just save up and buy the higher end caller instead of trying to upgrade and selling your old caller.