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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: giddyhitch on March 11, 2009, 08:07:27 AM

Title: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: giddyhitch on March 11, 2009, 08:07:27 AM: Preference, Electronic calls or mouth calls how do you feel about them and the success you've had with them?
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: SpokaneSlayer on March 11, 2009, 08:16:57 AM: I have a Foxpro FX# and have called in a majority of coyotes with it. That being said, I always have my hand calls with me and have called some dogs with them as well. I like my hand call howlers better than my Foxpro's sounds. I use hand calls almost exclusively at night. My favorite hand call is a custom job made by a buddy down in Cali. It's an antler fork. One fork is voice for jackrabbit, the other is a sqeaker.
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: giddyhitch on March 11, 2009, 08:19:47 AM: Well just wondered what you think of a primos catnip call?
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: SpokaneSlayer on March 11, 2009, 08:21:01 AM: I have it. Sounds good. You can do both bobcat sounds and distress sounds with it.
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: giddyhitch on March 11, 2009, 08:24:58 AM: Ok I am out of here then, going to get that call and go up on the Hancock property :hello:
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: SpokaneSlayer on March 11, 2009, 08:27:19 AM: Good luck! Let us know how you go!
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: giddyhitch on March 11, 2009, 12:00:35 PM: Ever have one of those days? I went to get primos call Wali World did not have it so just went with my electic call. Found lots of cat tracks so I got set up. Put out my electic bunny loaded my gun put on my gloves latched the call to a bush back off a bit in the woods put down a cushion to set on gloves gun ready. Then came the moment pushed the call remote, nothing. Dead batteries. I always think ahead for everything. Not this time no extra ones. I guess that's the nice thing about a mouth call, they work most of the time :yike: :yike: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: rasbo on March 11, 2009, 12:02:32 PM: Ive never used electonics hoping to someday >:(I love hand calling everyone should learn it..theres a real satisfaction there..but I cant wait for the foxpro3 :chuckle:
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: saylean on March 11, 2009, 12:03:04 PM: Better luck next time. I only have mouth calls...I guess I am a purist...(but my success is not so pure.. ;)

I have been very tempted for a long time to pick up a fox pro though...

I like the cat nip as well...sounds pretty good and it easy to use.
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: giddyhitch on March 11, 2009, 12:07:47 PM: Ras, You would not believe the cat tracks up there :yike:
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: rasbo on March 11, 2009, 12:11:19 PM: your killing me hitch,I put a brain in my little dakota pos and it quit again >:(I got some places on the central to get into not much time left..Bigfoot country :yike:
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: giddyhitch on March 11, 2009, 12:13:30 PM: You can't put enough brains in a dakota to make them work :chuckle:
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Post by: giddyhitch on March 11, 2009, 12:16:04 PM: You where right about being able to check out the tracks in the snow. It really helps in the area we went into. :drool:
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: rasbo on March 11, 2009, 12:17:09 PM: i bought it just for chasing bears,I would never own another one.hell I would drive a ford first :chuckle:furs gonna fly soon as I get it going.Ill pack my mountain bike in case I shoot the dodge
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: rasbo on March 11, 2009, 12:18:30 PM: Quote from: giddyhitch on March 11, 2009, 12:16:04 PM
You where right about being able to check out the tracks in the snow. It really helps in the area we went into. :drool:
wait till ya cut some bigfoot tracks,it will make yer but pucker :yike:
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: giddyhitch on March 11, 2009, 12:18:47 PM: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: giddyhitch on March 11, 2009, 12:21:08 PM: Hey, I hear they like to get close and personal with you :P
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: rasbo on March 11, 2009, 12:28:48 PM: we cut a track in a swamp and the smell was worse than any yote, my partner about faced and left.My son and I were in a long way up the mowich before light,somethings started screaming and whooping like a howler monkey and threw rocks big rocks ,exit stage left true story..several sightings that year
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: giddyhitch on March 11, 2009, 12:37:08 PM: I'm sure there is something out there, just don't know what :dunno:
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: blindpig on March 11, 2009, 01:41:54 PM: I have never called in a yote with a mouth call. Called in several with the foxpro. I would go with electric.
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: rasbo on March 11, 2009, 01:49:13 PM: Quote from: blindpig on March 11, 2009, 01:41:54 PM
I have never called in a yote with a mouth call. Called in several with the foxpro. I would go with electric.
ive told ya hundred times blow in the other end :chuckle: :hello:
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: deaddog on March 11, 2009, 03:30:02 PM: I use both mouth calls and a phantom electronic. I think both have their good points. I do like to have the phantom when I could be seen from a distance, less movement on my part and a decoy helps distract attention from my position too.
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: dontgetcrabs on March 11, 2009, 04:29:36 PM: How much hippi lettuce did you have that day? :chuckle:

Quote from: rasbo on March 11, 2009, 12:28:48 PM
we cut a track in a swamp and the smell was worse than any yote, my partner about faced and left.My son and I were in a long way up the mowich before light,somethings started screaming and whooping like a howler monkey and threw rocks big rocks ,exit stage left true story..several sightings that year
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: deaddog on March 12, 2009, 07:54:35 AM: Quote from: rasbo on March 11, 2009, 12:28:48 PM
we cut a track in a swamp and the smell was worse than any yote, my partner about faced and left.My son and I were in a long way up the mowich before light,somethings started screaming and whooping like a howler monkey and threw rocks big rocks ,exit stage left true story..several sightings that year
You been lickin toads in the woods again Rasbo? :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: bearmanric on March 12, 2009, 02:46:19 PM: I have two Foxpro Fury's and a Foxpro occ open country caller. i do way better calling bear's with my hand call. would do better at coyote and bobcat at time's.i'm just starting to hand call more. short ness of breath with my heart stuff. going to call spring bear in idaho or Arizona not sure yet. will be using mainly my bear call's. going to make a bear call tonight out of eastern ceder i got from Arky when i was in oklahoma last year. i like hand call's more. just depend's how my health is. all will work.Rick :hello:
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: deaddog on March 12, 2009, 03:23:39 PM: Quote from: bearmanric on March 12, 2009, 02:46:19 PM
I have two Foxpro Fury's and a Foxpro occ open country caller. i do way better calling bear's with my hand call. would do better at coyote and bobcat at time's.i'm just starting to hand call more. short ness of breath with my heart stuff. going to call spring bear in idaho or Arizona not sure yet. will be using mainly my bear call's. going to make a bear call tonight out of eastern ceder i got from Arky when i was in oklahoma last year. i like hand call's more. just depend's how my health is. all will work.Rick :hello:
Good luck on your spring bear hunt, Rick, let us know how it goes. Sounds like a ton of fun, Ive never called bears, got to be a blast.
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: rasbo on March 12, 2009, 04:05:43 PM: Quote from: deaddog on March 12, 2009, 07:54:35 AM
Quote from: rasbo on March 11, 2009, 12:28:48 PM
we cut a track in a swamp and the smell was worse than any yote, my partner about faced and left.My son and I were in a long way up the mowich before light,somethings started screaming and whooping like a howler monkey and threw rocks big rocks ,exit stage left true story..several sightings that year
You been lickin toads in the woods again Rasbo? :chuckle: :chuckle:
true story wish I was licking toads..I still go in there always a feeling something is there..eerie
Title: Re: Electronic verses mouth calls
Post by: deaddog on March 12, 2009, 04:29:43 PM: Quote from: rasbo on March 12, 2009, 04:05:43 PM
Quote from: deaddog on March 12, 2009, 07:54:35 AM
Quote from: rasbo on March 11, 2009, 12:28:48 PM
we cut a track in a swamp and the smell was worse than any yote, my partner about faced and left.My son and I were in a long way up the mowich before light,somethings started screaming and whooping like a howler monkey and threw rocks big rocks ,exit stage left true story..several sightings that year
You been lickin toads in the woods again Rasbo? :chuckle: :chuckle:
true story wish I was licking toads..I still go in there always a feeling something is there..eerie
It does sound kind of spooky, but kind of fun too.