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Topic: What calls have you guys been bringing to a stand.
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yotecaller
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posted July 07, 2003 05:37 PM
I have been keeping my stands quite light so I only bring what I need.For calls I have been bringing my open reed C&G call(Made by Rich Cronk and Richard Grantham)my Brass Rhino(made by Jay) and my Songdog Howler(made by Tim Richard)and my FoxPro.So what calls do all you guys bring to a stand?
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Leonard
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posted July 07, 2003 06:19 PM
I just stick a couple in my pocket, I don't own a "bad" call. If I don't like 'em when I get 'em, I tinker a bit until I'm satisfied. I like to have a diaphram call with me, so that would be three. I'm bound to be happy with one or the other?
The past several years, I have started lugging a howler, so, lemme see, I guess I'm up to four, huh?
Good hunting. LB
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Greenside
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posted July 08, 2003 09:38 AM
I probably get a little more carried away than most of you when it comes to calls. I carry mine in a little trifold, toiletry travel pouch. It's about 10" wide and unfolds to about 15". It has 5 or 6 small compartments made for sticking in the small shampoo and rinse bottles. That's where I place my most used calls. It also has a small fishnet zippered pouch and also another zippered enclosed pouch for a couple of back up calls.
I carry the travel pouch along with a Carlton bell in a fanny pack, worn "California style". When I get to a stand, I unfold the pouch, lay it on the ground and pull out the calls I plan to use.
Calls I usually have with me are: Critr'Call Pee Wee, Standard and a Songdog, one or two Mini-Blasters, Circe 3 in one and maybe a couple of the Modern call mini tubes in the jack rabbit voice.
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varmit hunter
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posted July 08, 2003 11:02 AM
I have so many calls around my neck. I look like a Witch Doctor in a old Tarzan movie. I have carried them so long I don't have to look were there at. I can put my hand on just the one I won't. Do I need them?. Hell no. But I think I do.
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted July 08, 2003 02:46 PM
All of 'em. I usually carried them in a tackle box in my truck, and picked out the ones I wanted to use before heading to my seup. Then, you're sitting there thinking, "You know what call would work best right now? The one I ain't got. Dooohhh!" So, I was in the sporting goods section after turkey season closed and, by golly, they had these really nice turkey vests for sale for under twenty so I bought it. Forty-eleven pockets, and a nice padded butt pad attached to the back. Everything I used fits in a pocket somewhere so I toss the rifle over my shoulder, jump on the ATV and away I go. Can't never have too many calls with ya. Would you go bass fishing with just one lure?
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Purple220
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posted July 13, 2003 07:06 AM
My most trusted and go to calls (2) are in my shirt pocket. The Tally Ho and Tweety are the pair. If I can't call a critter with those two, I probably can't call them in with anything. Still playing with the howler some, just don't have the confidence in it yet.
Bob
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Ernest Sandoval
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posted July 13, 2003 11:23 PM
I carry three mouth diaphram calls in a little case, which is always with me in my pocket, and a cronk howler, I'm at work right now, and I had two diffrent groups of coyotes, all up in a fuss, trying to figure out who was the third party, these coyotes have never been hunted or called, one time I had seven coyotes, sitting down with in 25yds, thinking I ate the rabbit that was hurt. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Chucker223
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posted July 16, 2003 09:38 AM
I am relatively new to all of this, but my favarite call so far is Al Lux. It has a beatiful sound and so far provided good results.
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Leonard
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posted July 16, 2003 04:28 PM
Welcome to the New Huntmasters, Chucker223. Glad to have you on board.
An Al Lux call? Yeah, they sure are nice. Al autographed mine, which bothers Michael McCasland no end! (hey, ya gotta ask, dude!)
Good hunting. LB
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Marlowe
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posted July 16, 2003 04:43 PM
Always start out with a female coyote lonesome howl. Depending on what happens next, usually another coyote talk. When yotes are in sight, I usually switch to a mouse squeak.. If that doesn't work, back to coyote talk. I use a WT for all my fun..
Marlowe
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Rich Higgins
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posted July 16, 2003 08:02 PM
Marlowe, I liken your choice of sounds. That's pretty much what I do with hand calls. Can you hear any crackle or static from your WT'S speaker?
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Steve Craig
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posted July 16, 2003 08:24 PM
Well said Marlowe! I bet your sounds, sound just like mine! Dont let ole Rich play with you. He knows there is no such thing as crackle and static from these great speakers. I also bet your speakers are as quiet as mine too!
How are you doing up there in Gods country? I'm going to be just east of you in Oct with a mutual friend of ours. Nice to see you here.
Steve
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Marlowe
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posted July 16, 2003 08:49 PM
Rich Higgins
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posted July 16, 2003 08:02 PM
Marlowe, I liken your choice of sounds. That's pretty much what I do with hand calls. Can you hear any crackle or static from your WT'S speaker?
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Rich,
Have been in electronics for 34 years now. I don't put up with any "crackle or static" sounds or speakers. My time is way to valuable for any of that. Don't get me wrong, I can still use a hand call. Always carry one just to give a scream now and then. Have been using the WT's now for a little over 5 years I guess. Not into numbers, but I try to get out every weekend when the fur is prime and it never fails to call them in. Sometimes the gun don't shoot straight though. Ha. Have shot alot of yotes though.
Steve, hope to see you over in Eastern Montana in Oct. I talk to Gary almost everyday. He is making a living doing what most folks on these coyote boards only dream of.. He does alot of coyotes. Just love my WT. Just had Bill update it. Some new sounds also. Awsome stuff. Can't wait until cool weather. 95 in Great Falls today. Cool compared to AZ I'm sure.
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Az-Hunter
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posted July 16, 2003 09:49 PM
Im with you Marlowe....I liken you caller too:) I drag my ole heavy weight WT out each calling season too, couple more years and I suppose I'll have to add wheels. Anyone who claims to hear crackle or scratch from a WT speaker is as full of **** as a christmas goose.
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Tim Behle
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posted July 17, 2003 08:16 AM
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Anyone who claims to hear crackle or scratch from a WT speaker is as full of **** as a christmas goose.
I'll agree, but anyone who claims that a little crackle or scratch will keep a coyote from coming in, is just as full of ****!
Crystal clear sound is nice for the person calling, but the coyotes flat out don't care.
I'd rather carry a little less weight and bulk, and save my energy for a couple of more stands.
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Leonard
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posted July 17, 2003 09:53 AM
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anyone who claims that a little crackle or scratch will keep a coyote from coming in, is just as full of ****!
You can't help liking a guy that tells it like it is!
Vic, I suppose you call a lot more animals with the WT as opposed to the 512 you used for so many years, .....right?
Good hunting. LB
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Rich Higgins
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posted July 17, 2003 10:12 AM
I checked my post and really did type "liken", oh well, serves me right. Marlowe, actually I occasionally tweak some of the guys here and they happily tweak back. Good fun for most. I was sincere in my question to you concerning the WT speaker because sound from the two that I have called over were discernible as coming from a speaker. Static was clearly audible in one of them and the owner, who posts here even remarked about it. Perhaps he will weigh in.
My goodness AzHunter, substitite teacher (do your students know you talk like that), still smarting over the "ludricous" tweaking? Declaring me to be as "full of **** as a Christmas goose" is revealing. You apparently eat a great deal of Christmas goose(do search on "You are what you eat")
Tim, et tu?
Gentlemen, my only two expeiences with WT callers did not substantiate the reports from several good, successful, varminters of long experience. I do not know the source of the crackle in the speakers, dust contamination? static electricity? rough treatment? Hence my question to you, Marlowe. No offence or disrespect intended.
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Rich Higgins
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posted July 17, 2003 10:16 AM
Dang, and you too Leonard?
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Az-Hunter
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posted July 17, 2003 10:32 AM
Yes Leonard, I do call substanially more predators with my WT than I did with any other E-caller. Now; is that because I have more time in the field now that Im retired?, or is it the vastly superior quality of sound I get from it? I think so, and like they say "I think, therefore I am". The old quality of sound debate rages on I suppose, and to each their own, but Ive made up my own mind on the matter, and I think it does.
rich...am I still smarting from the spelling lesson you gave me?....naw, I thought from your curt response, you, might still be smarting from the dig I gave about your jittery,suburban, garbage eating coyote footage???? We're big boys, we'll get over it huh:)
~Az-Hunter~
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Leonard
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posted July 17, 2003 10:41 AM
I was looking through the new Cabela's Shooting catalog yesterday and came across some real high tech (machined?) solid copper bullets that were forty dollar or so, and looked again, and that was for twenty of them!
The way human nature is, I'm sure that the guy that uses those bullets will swear that they fly higher and kill better than those cheap ones?
Good hunting. LB
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Az-Hunter
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posted July 17, 2003 10:45 AM
So.....in the same vein of thought, I suppose all your NEF,Savage and Ted Williams rifles wear Tasco scopes?....I didn't think so:)
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Leonard
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posted July 17, 2003 12:21 PM
Sort of, Vic. What I'm saying is that the bullets cost more and made to exacting standards. Therefore, there must be a benefit, real or imagined.
I have used some pretty shabby speakers, and some rather inexpensive machines, and the coyotes don't seem to care. I admit that sophisicated coyotes might respond to studio quality equipment, when they might ignore the cheap crap?
Hard to say if it is the quality of the sound, or the quality of the content. In other words, the WT has some killer sounds, and I don't know if it's that, or the purity of the sound that gets 'em?
Good hunting. LB
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Az-Hunter
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posted July 17, 2003 01:30 PM
Who knows Leonard?....it gets old hearing the diatribe for sure, thank god no one MAKES us use a certain scope,rifle,bullet,caliber or call. To each according to our means and desires. I remember seeing an old American Sportsman show, featuring Lee Trevino along with sidekick Curt Gowdy. They were fishing a then premier lake, Presa Novillo, down in old Mexico. They had the big bass boat,sonar,top of the line rods and reels, all the state of the art stuff a basser needs(wants). They crusie into a small inlet, where two young Mexican boys are tossing out lures they have found, off of reels made of coke cans....Lee asks them in spainish "tiene pescados?"....the grinning boys bend down and pull up a stringer of bass that would make a bass beater blush. I suppose as always, it aint what you use but how you use it?
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DAA
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posted July 17, 2003 02:43 PM
Rich, the only WT's I've personally hunted over are the "old" backpack models. Absolutely stunning sound quality, not a hint of hiss or crackle that I could detect. The way those units project a sound, to my ears, sounds so much more "real" than a horn speaker, it isn't even funny. More than once, I've actually been fooled by some of the sounds - jerking my head towards the caller to see how that animal got there undetected. Sounds like the ravens feeding etc... They sound absolutely real, and I think, actually do help call more coyotes when intelligently deployed.
That said, my friend that owns one of those old backpack models advised me against buying one of the newer units using a horn speaker. He told me that he hunted over one and that it put out very noticeable white noise during what should be silences, and put out an occasional loud pop when starting a sound. I didn't hear this myself, mind you, but the guy who told me about it is a pretty big WT fan, wouldn't hunt over anything else but his old backpack unit. Certainly, I believe him. If Vic wants to say he's full of **** , that's to be expected. Vic says a lot of crap like that. But, as he likes to say - he'd be saying it from flat on his ass if he talked to people like that in person.
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Az-Hunter
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posted July 17, 2003 05:31 PM
I'll be damned???? to read your post daa, I'd almost swear you agree with me totally on the WTs sound system clarity? You used such adjectives as "stunning", "absolutely no hiss or crackle","more real than a horn",etc. So.....what do YOU tell someone who claims the speaker system is full of white noise,pop-crackle-hiss, distortion to the ear? there's only one thing to say.....your full of **** , right:) That aint being cocky, thats being honest, I don't make this stuff up, if it's not factual as I know it, I try not to address it.
I don't know your solution upon hearing BS, maybe you blow it off or leg hang, I don't know, but when bullshit is blabbered, someone should call it, thats what I did....swing away:)
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