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Posted by Greenside (Member # 10) on March 09, 2007, 06:09 AM:
Posted by Rich (Member # 112) on March 09, 2007, 06:12 AM:
Very cool Greenside. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 09, 2007, 09:32 AM:
Yeah, thanks for sharing, Dennis. Nice to put a face with a name.
Good hunting. LB
Posted by Okanagan (Member # 870) on March 09, 2007, 08:08 PM:
Greenside,
Is that an inflatable fawn, made of plastic or is it something else? Do you know where a fellow could buy one like it? I have been looking for an ultra light weight fawn or deer head, preferably in waterproof plastic.
Looks like it works for you. Way to go.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 09, 2007, 09:27 PM:
So, you are saying that your fawn decoy is a better alternative to a coyote decoy, right?
Good hunting. LB
Posted by Steve Craig (Member # 12) on March 10, 2007, 06:23 AM:
Looks good Dennis.
I been using Fearless Fawn for many years now while calling lions, and what few coyotes came in will really hold their attention.
Bobcats will attack him just about every time they see him. Lions will drop to their bellys and do the stalk that lions do.
Coyotes just stand and stare fo r the most part.
Mine has been clawed and bitten so many times, that i am going to have to get another one one of these days.
How far out was your coyote when you shot him?
Steve
Posted by Okanagan (Member # 870) on March 10, 2007, 09:06 PM:
Steve, thanks. Will check out the Fearless Fawn.
By the way, had an odd experience with a cougar recently, something like Jim Corbett described once. Nearly 30 minutes into a sleepy stand, suddenly and instantly, I knew he was there. I can't explain it. Then I blew it natch. I was so sure he was there, yet couldn't see him, that I craned my neck and spooked him.
I can't explain it, wouldn't argue with anyone who doesn't believe it, but it was a matter of knowing: not thinking, wishing, maybe or anything like that.
Posted by Steve Craig (Member # 12) on March 11, 2007, 06:27 AM:
Okanagan,
I know exactly what you are talking about.
They are just there. You know it, but cant see him/her.
I had a young lion come in to the caller once, from an odd direction, that I just never thought they would approach from. He walked up behind my client and directly in fromt of me. He had sat down and never moved for over 20 minutes. Client finally moved as his butt was asleep or something and that cat stared a hole through him and then just walked off. I was using every sound I could think of without spooking him, to no avail. He had a line of site on the speaker and was done at that point. He wasnt 5 steps from my client and only about 30 or so from me.Client never knew he was there, untill I showed him the tracks and where he had sat down.
Callers call in far more cats than they ever see. It is my belief that they never see 75% of them, maybe more.
The decoy is a must for calling lions.
Posted by varmit hunter (Member # 37) on March 11, 2007, 01:34 PM:
For what its worth Lohman still makes that fawn decoy. I think it weighs 4 oz.I have had mine for ten years and it is amazingly tuff.
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