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Title: Are two electronic callers sufficient for bear
Post by: HoofsandWings on July 10, 2019, 01:21:06 PM
Since I can't blow a call, I use electronic callers instead.
Should I place them in opposite directions from my position?
One soft and the other loud or some other combination?
Title: Re: Are two electronic callers sufficient for bear
Post by: KFhunter on July 10, 2019, 01:29:09 PM
most people just use one caller,  what two do you have?


If I were using two callers I'd have one doing coyote and put it out a ways and have the other caller doing a rabbit/fawn...playing the victim.  Bears will poach a coyote kill in a heartbeat.




Title: Re: Are two electronic callers sufficient for bear
Post by: Bango skank on July 10, 2019, 01:41:25 PM
Bears will poach a coyote kill in a heartbeat.

In late november 2017, i was creeping through the woods in heavy fog.  Ran into 2 agitated coyotes.  shot one, missed the other.  Left the yote laying there to retrieve on my way out.  Didnt get at most 100 yards further when i walked right into a big boar eating a deer.  Literal spitting distance.  had a puckering standoff for a minute and i walked backward with my gun pointed at his head.  Im pretty sure the bear just stole that deer from the coyotes.  the yote had a real nice winter fur on him, and my taxi was able to work his magic on the nasty exit wound from my .308.  i wanted like hell to shoot that bear, but it was a week after bear season closed. 
Title: Re: Are two electronic callers sufficient for bear
Post by: KFhunter on July 10, 2019, 01:43:30 PM
Bears will poach a coyote kill in a heartbeat.

In late november 2017, i was creeping through the woods in heavy fog.  Ran into 2 agitated coyotes.  shot one, missed the other.  Left the yote laying there to retrieve on my way out.  Didnt get at most 100 yards further when i walked right into a big boar eating a deer.  Literal spitting distance.  had a puckering standoff for a minute and i walked backward with my gun pointed at his head.  Im pretty sure the bear just stole that deer from the coyotes.

what an awesome experience  :tup:
Title: Re: Are two electronic callers sufficient for bear
Post by: HoofsandWings on July 10, 2019, 03:56:09 PM
Looks like I will be using my .270 with either 140 gr or 150 gr bullets. I used 140 gr at 300 yards to get my big horn and 150 gr for my moose.
I am still looking for my reloading notes. I have them in a book, but I can't find the book. When my wife passed away, I either stored or gave away many of my books.
Hopefully I kept the book I am looking for. The loads were real screamers. Nothing like I would find in todays reload manuals. The max loads I was using were way more than today's manuals.

And I have been using those loads for 25 years.
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