The strangest bear call on Hunting Washington

[woodman]

To start with, I have been doing all of my spring bear hunting with a camera since I did not get drawn for the special permit hunt.

Today I was able to do something that I have wanted to do for a while now. I was hiking with my dog Baxter and I saw a bear a ways away from us. I watched it go into the woods and disappear. I pulled a rubber chicken that belongs to my dog out of my pack. Every since I first saw this rubber chicken, I thought that it sounded like a pretty good bear call. I started squeezing this chicken and after a bit the bear popped out of the woods and started checking us out. It would walk a little and then turn a look at us. I did it over and over and that bear was really trying to figure out what the heck we were. If I were hunting, I could have killed this bear very easily.

I really thought this was fun and thought that maybe some others might get a kick out of it.

[Gringo31]

I really thought this was fun and thought that maybe some others might get a kick out of it.

So ....Bears are attracted to the sound of you choking your chicken?

[sled]

I really thought this was fun and thought that maybe some others might get a kick out of it.

So ....Bears are attracted to the sound of you choking your chicken?

[Caretaker]

Mmm, tastes like chicken 

[saylean]

Pretty cool man, whatever works I guess!

[Gringo31]

Some of you guys better be more careful!

[runamuk]

Thats awesome cool pic

[wazzu99]

Choking your chicken or not that looks like a pretty good spring bear

[Houndhunter]

Dog toys make awesome squeakers for when their close

[Pygmy]

Woodman, where can I get a chicken like that? Awesome story!  Thanks for sharing.

[Skyvalhunter]

Looks like the one BTK uses when it's not being used in his bath tub..

[Decker]

 

I really thought this was fun and thought that maybe some others might get a kick out of it.

So ....Bears are attracted to the sound of you choking your chicken?

[Ripper]

That's pretty cool stuff right there. 

[Okanagan]

My favorite predator call for several years was the voice reed that I got from a blue rubber elephant squeeze toy.  That was years ago and due to the possibility of kids swallowing the voice reed, they started molding them into the toy body and they are harder to get out.  I left that one on a basalt rock above the Columbia where I skinned a coyote called in with it. 

When removed from the toy so that you can control the air flow more than just by squeezing, they make a superb critter call.  Good on you!!