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| jasnt:
--- Quote from: KFhunter on November 13, 2015, 09:10:59 PM ---I'd have to have a lot of trust for someone to shoot a cat sitting just over my shoulder :chuckle: "hold still while I shoot this apple off your head" --- End quote --- :chuckle: hopfully he sees it long before its over my shoulder. The way we plan it he shoots if the cat hangs up or as it's leaving. In turn he gets to sit up above the action while I run the call. He dosent have to even move a mussel sept his eyes. While I sit in the thick stuff running the call from my hiddy hole allowing me a little more movement ( hand running the call) hasn't worked out yet but he gets to hunt my spots with out having to do the leg work,and I get a little back up in case it hits the fan or the cat hangs up above my view or out of range. So far all my call ins have been solo trips but one. When I called in the 3 cats I was with my friend Jackey, the day I learned to always check my battery's we were scouting for her elk hunt and I was after bear when we found a fresh track. Setup to call and ecaller was dead. So I used a hand call :bdid: when the first 2 cats started whistling every time I did I got excited. I was focused on the whistles,then we got the gargle cough from a diffrent cat that was 30-40 yards away and we couldn't see it. She was frozen in fear( I just thought she was doing great at sitting still) she says the older cat came in from below us and moved over to where we heard the gargle cough. If my ecaller had worked I'd bet we would have at least gotten a visual but with a hand call all eyes were on me. |
| predatorG:
--- Quote from: KFhunter on November 12, 2015, 05:15:14 PM --- http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/audioPop.jsp?episodeId=246630&cmd=apop I learned a heck of a lot from this broadcast, well worth a listen when you got a spare 30 minutes or so. It takes patience and time to really understand and put into practice all the information that's in this broadcast. I called in three lions last year, was busted twice and a 3rd cat I didn't see until it was too late. I'm just a beginner right now, but I'm seeing the light and getting a grasp on what it takes to call lions routinely, not just stumbling into a successful call but being able to get out there and have a reasonable shot at success. Most important thing is to call areas that hold lions, then you need to know where to position yourself so you could actually see the dang thing approach, and hold rock still for a solid hour, and not get busted just walking in. You also want to hide the call so I gave up on decoys all together, opting to hide the call in a natural depression. The cat will sneak to the call until it can see where the sound is coming from then most of the time just sit and study it, eventually get bored and look around, this is where you get busted so better to have gotten your shot off already. It really makes calling coyotes child's play I think. The only real upshot is wind isn't as big of factor as with coyotes, but you can't hold too still for cats, can't emphasize this enough. I don't think I've been busted by smell alone. Mostly I'm busted walking in setting up so it's better to scout locations and approaches ahead of time then go in another day to call. Good luck, the lion numbers are greatly in your favor and I hope that calling lions is demystified, we need to put all of them we can in the dirt. --- End quote --- Listened to some of this last night. The guy talked about how you should watch cats because they all act the same (house cats, bobcats, cougars). So today for a bit of practice I called in my cat. It was actually a ton of fun to play with her. |
| jasnt:
--- Quote from: predatorG on November 15, 2015, 12:39:06 PM --- --- Quote from: KFhunter on November 12, 2015, 05:15:14 PM --- http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/audioPop.jsp?episodeId=246630&cmd=apop I learned a heck of a lot from this broadcast, well worth a listen when you got a spare 30 minutes or so. It takes patience and time to really understand and put into practice all the information that's in this broadcast. I called in three lions last year, was busted twice and a 3rd cat I didn't see until it was too late. I'm just a beginner right now, but I'm seeing the light and getting a grasp on what it takes to call lions routinely, not just stumbling into a successful call but being able to get out there and have a reasonable shot at success. Most important thing is to call areas that hold lions, then you need to know where to position yourself so you could actually see the dang thing approach, and hold rock still for a solid hour, and not get busted just walking in. You also want to hide the call so I gave up on decoys all together, opting to hide the call in a natural depression. The cat will sneak to the call until it can see where the sound is coming from then most of the time just sit and study it, eventually get bored and look around, this is where you get busted so better to have gotten your shot off already. It really makes calling coyotes child's play I think. The only real upshot is wind isn't as big of factor as with coyotes, but you can't hold too still for cats, can't emphasize this enough. I don't think I've been busted by smell alone. Mostly I'm busted walking in setting up so it's better to scout locations and approaches ahead of time then go in another day to call. Good luck, the lion numbers are greatly in your favor and I hope that calling lions is demystified, we need to put all of them we can in the dirt. --- End quote --- Listened to some of this last night. The guy talked about how you should watch cats because they all act the same (house cats, bobcats, cougars). So today for a bit of practice I called in my cat. It was actually a ton of fun to play with her. --- End quote --- I do that too. It is fun. Try it on feral cats, little tougher to call. My friend Jackey lives next to a hay field and there are some barn cats that hunt it after dark. When I go out for a smoke I like to turn on my hat light and lip squeak one in as close as I can. Sofar I haven't gotten them to cross the fence but I did call in a double once :chuckle: some times they just make a b-line straight at me but most like to stalk in slow. Some will just sit and stare my way. I bet if I added a laser pointer to my gear I could get them to cross the fence |
| jpharcher:
I am trying to figure out how to hunt them in this thick Kitsap/Mason county country..... |
| KFhunter:
I'm going to add a powerful laser pointer to my lion calling setup :tup: |
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