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What's the call?
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Well, this is the second season I am focusing on hunting bear after reading 'no baits just bears' book. I have two calls: distressed fawn and distressed hare. Former is louder than later because it is basically a pipe, and the latter is opened. I have been using mostly the distressed fawn call where bear signs are present, sitting in a camo netting in an area where I can see around 360'. So far, after about a dozen of tries, I have yet to see any predator coming out after about 45-75 minutes of calling. I heard squirrels and rarely rumbling but nothing came out, most I do not hear anything promising. Yesterday when walking I saw a bear on an opposite ridge log road about 2 miles away. When I used distressed fawn call I saw in binoculars that he headed for brush. He peaked but did not come out. When I tried distressed hare he looked towards me, came out and shown interest.
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What calls do you use and find effective? How do you call? Any other tips will be appreciated.
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Raspy distress put emotion into it. Rick
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I was using my fawn in distress call from Ric for the first time yesterday and had a doe come sprinting across the clear cut I was set up in. I could hear her grunting and bleating, I kept calling thinking she would stop eventually, next thing I know she was on top of me about 6-7 feet away still running full speed. Jumped up turned my back and yelled at her fully expecting an ass kicking. She sprung back and took off. So I guess the call works well. I wasn't using much raspiness at that point it was just the relaxed loud fawn bleat. Later I tried more raspiness but didn't get anything to come in. I called in another doe at the next stand but I stopped her at 20 yards. She didn't leave and came back 2x. Pretty good action though.
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Doing fawn is a great idea into timber. When berrys are dried up in the clear cuts. I call with fawn a lot into timber. Called in quite a few bobcats doing this to. Rick
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Hi Bearmanric, I've looked on your site. Is YDD3 call the one you recommend?
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Standard closed reed. Rick.
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Like this one. This is buckeye burl. Rick
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Thats a pretty call. Rick, correct me on this if wrong but remember calling is a progression. Start slow, not overly loud, take yiur time, build up your volume and emotion. My short story about that is a year or do ago i got all set uo, waited for the woods to settle, then let rip a blaring rabbit dying scream. I musta,had something close by hunkered dowm because when i ripped that call it ran off and it still probably running.
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Thanks Rick for the recommendation. Wanted to ask follow up question. How does standard closed reed compares to YDD3...
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YDD3s are a little quieter, sort of mellower tone board. I like to use around a 2 1/2 inch long barrel because it seems to sound best for me. The sound is a little deeper than my RR1. The YDD3 is great for getting a deeper, raspier distress for calling bears.
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YDD3 will do elk loud and Jack rabbit distress. I just like using closed reed alot. I carry over 5 different calls. Rick
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make they call sound like your lost,and not being killed...
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I'm leaning towards getting YDD3 instead of standard closed reed to call a bear
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