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How loud do you call?
« on: August 22, 2021, 01:54:06 PM »
I am going to try calling for bears tonight and curious how loud you typically call when calling into clearcuts. Would you recommend a fawn distress or what when calling this time of year. Thanks.

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Re: How loud do you call?
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2021, 02:00:18 PM »
I am going to try calling for bears tonight and curious how loud you typically call when calling into clearcuts. Would you recommend a fawn distress or what when calling this time of year. Thanks.

I have called in two bears in the last year. Both with hand calls jack rabbit/fawn distress. Just as loud as I can scream through the call. One was two nights ago. I jumped it up and called it back in. Sadly I’m tagged out. But it was exciting. I’m becoming more a believer in hand calls for bears and no particular  animal sound just sound like your being killed by something.
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Re: How loud do you call?
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2021, 02:30:58 PM »
A good rule of thumb for how loud and hard is if you start calling really loud and hard  With a bear coming in and the next thing You remember is waking up missing a leg you were calling to loud😂😂
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Re: How loud do you call?
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2021, 03:02:13 PM »
I had a buddy full blast on a fawn distress call to try and get deer to jump from a thick bedding area, it called a bear to 10 yards. Also called a cat on accident with kids screaming up a canyon to hear the echo at midnight, was pucker factor 5.

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Re: How loud do you call?
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2021, 09:57:29 AM »
I read somewhere to dial it up.  Start at a med volume and then ratchet it up every 5 min or so.


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Re: How loud do you call?
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2021, 10:10:22 AM »
A good rule of thumb for how loud and hard is if you start calling really loud and hard  With a bear coming in and the next thing You remember is waking up missing a leg you were calling to loud😂😂

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Re: How loud do you call?
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2021, 01:14:26 PM »
Get on it in clear cuts. Calling woods I like quieter Fawn sounds or elk. The coast has a lot of thinned areas. Callloud there.
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Re: How loud do you call?
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2021, 12:30:19 AM »
Really loud. I use the Ultimate Predator Calls app (the guy who made it is a member here, can't remember his name) and hook my phone up to a bluetooth speaker and crank it up. I set it down and then set up about 75 yards away that way the animal doesn't come into me. I still put my back up against a tree just in case.

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Re: How loud do you call?
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2021, 12:10:14 PM »
I start off softly for a couple of minutes and then increase the volume as I go, until I am calling as loud as I can.  Remember on windy days, heavy vegetation and certain terrain features, your call will not travel very far.
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Re: How loud do you call?
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2021, 07:45:25 AM »
So I have a fox pro call for coyote hunting and my first year hunting bear on west side.   Do u keep the call constantly running or so you run it for a certain amount of time then stop and start back up again after a certain amount of time?   

Also have a decoy for it but I think it’s more meant for coyote but wouod the flipping of the decoy be helpful.   Thanks so much.


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Re: How loud do you call?
« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2021, 08:07:33 AM »
Imagine being mauled and screaming for help. I've been hearing a rabbit once in awhile, probably 1/4 mile or more away through dense forest. Can't imagine how loud that thing must be screaming. At my location its probably about 80dB.
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Re: How loud do you call?
« Reply #11 on: September 15, 2021, 08:10:33 AM »
Imagine being mauled a screaming for help. I've been hearing a rabbit once in awhile, probably 1/4 mile or more away through dense forest. Can't imagine how loud that thing must be screaming. At my location its probably about 80dB.
Thanks so much. That makes sense.  But is there an amount of time to where it can do more harm then good.  I guess the way I am thinking about it if I was letting killed by a bear I would scream my ass off but I would imagine I would be dead within a half hour or so.   Meaning do u just let it keep running.  Sorry if this is being to technical.  New to bear hunting.   Thanks so much. 


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Re: How loud do you call?
« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2021, 08:21:13 AM »
Imagine being mauled and screaming for help. I've been hearing a rabbit once in awhile, probably 1/4 mile or more away through dense forest. Can't imagine how loud that thing must be screaming. At my location its probably about 80dB.

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Re: How loud do you call?
« Reply #13 on: September 15, 2021, 08:39:14 AM »
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg9_ZnojxmU

About like this.

The last bear o called in I knew was within 200 yards so I just did a soft to medium call and they came right in.
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Re: How loud do you call?
« Reply #14 on: September 15, 2021, 09:21:36 AM »
Get your Phelps bugle tube (the big one)
put it over the end of your mouth reed call,
blow loud as you can 

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