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Title: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: bear on January 24, 2010, 08:27:02 PM: Took the foxpro scorpian out for the maiden trial today and called in a bobcat on the first set. My son ended up shooting it at about 40 yards with his 300 short mag. We only have one good varmint rifle in the house and it was in my hands at the time. I was about 10 yards away and looking in the other direction when he shot. Man, what a blast. We made a second set with no luck. I think that I'm hooked. Gonna have to get a spotlight and try the nighttime calling this week. I'll get pictures as soon as I can get them off of my son's phone. Bear
(https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10871/1%7E17.jpg)
Not a real big one. 17 lb female
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: Bofire on January 24, 2010, 08:29:37 PM: :)WAY COOL!!!!!!!!!
Carl
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: shoot-em-dead on January 24, 2010, 08:32:08 PM: awesome :tup:
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: littlebuf on January 24, 2010, 08:41:58 PM: bobcat on your first ever set. well you wont call anything in for about two years now so i hope ya took pictures ;)
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: alecvg on January 24, 2010, 08:47:11 PM: Thats awesome bear! VERY jealous!
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: CastleRocker on January 24, 2010, 08:54:55 PM: Awesome cat!!! What sounds did you use? My son and I have called in a couple (that we know of), but don't really know what sounds they responded to. We've actually called in more cougar this year than bobcat!
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: 509er on January 24, 2010, 08:59:00 PM: Awesome! I am also curious on what sound you used.
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: bear on January 24, 2010, 09:10:32 PM: I actually used a variety of cottontail distress calls, a woodpecker distress, and even mixed some gathering crows sounds. I guess I threw the kitchen sink at them. Bear
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: bighorns2bushytails on January 25, 2010, 07:30:01 AM: congrats and nice kitty! not bad for your first time out ;)

--BH2BT
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: Axle on January 25, 2010, 08:22:50 AM: Way to go! I'll bet your glad your son shot it.
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: Big Valley on January 25, 2010, 08:34:35 AM: Nice job! :tup:
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: Shootmoore on January 25, 2010, 08:50:57 AM: You done ruined yourself for life! Great first outing with that foxpro.

With the foxpro stories like this I just may have to save up and buy one one of these days. I spent a lot of sets first starting out learning to blow the call before I got success.

My first attempt at electronic calling was recording a tape of me calling on a old GE tape recorder and setting it out away from me after pushing play :P . I got high tec when I got me some speaker wire and ran a speaker off it so I could turn it off and on.

It sounds like these machines have come along ways since those days.

Shootmoore
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: turkey buster on January 25, 2010, 08:51:22 AM: nice job bear thats a great looking cat :tup: :tup:
chuck
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: Blacklab on January 25, 2010, 09:54:19 AM: OMG :yike:
maiden voyage set and get a bobby you must be livin right ;)
Congrats :brew:
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: Forrestrover on January 25, 2010, 07:14:30 PM: Great looking cat, and good story!
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: saylean on January 25, 2010, 07:30:47 PM: I called in a bob on my first set too with a hand call...

havent called one in again :'( :chuckle: :dunno:

Grats on the bob!
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: MuleySniper on January 26, 2010, 01:19:35 PM: Cool! :tup:
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: KimberRich on January 26, 2010, 01:31:37 PM: Not bad for your first set!
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: Big10gauge on January 26, 2010, 01:36:37 PM: Sweet!!! Congrats on the cat.
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: C-Money on January 26, 2010, 01:46:05 PM: Nice Job! Congrats! Was that a west or east side bobcat?
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: rasbo on January 26, 2010, 01:46:30 PM: say good bye to sanity as you might have known it,,its worse than crack from here on out,,move over big10 here comes another :hello:
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: JackOfAllTrades on January 26, 2010, 02:06:07 PM: Dang! Sweet!

I've been waitin for some weather, (a little lowland snow), to get out there.

-Steve
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: Machias on January 26, 2010, 04:32:27 PM: Congrats, instead of the 300 mag, you might consider a 12 ga. Much better anyways to have one guy with a varmit rifle and one with a shotgun. Much easier on the hides too. :)
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: bear on January 26, 2010, 06:21:17 PM: He left the 12 gauge in the truck. I was wondering how it'd do with buckshot. The problem is it was a big clearcut, so he wanted something with some reach. :dunno:
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: slayer1 on January 26, 2010, 06:35:29 PM: Thats a real good looking cat. I like the color of the westside cats. How long did it take for it to come in?
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: bear on January 27, 2010, 07:15:23 AM: Quote from: slayer1 on January 26, 2010, 06:35:29 PM
Thats a real good looking cat. I like the color of the westside cats. How long did it take for it to come in?
35 minutes
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: carpsniperg2 on January 27, 2010, 12:49:22 PM: wow that is great and wrong at the same time :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: congrats to you guys now you are hooked :chuckle:
Title: Re: One for one on foxpro(beginner's luck)
Post by: Intruder on January 28, 2010, 10:09:24 AM: Sweet!