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Offline TheBig1

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Predator Calling
« on: January 16, 2016, 05:50:51 PM »
As I'm reading of course I'm seeing a lot of threads pertaining to calls for coyotes, fox, bobcats, and coons.

Are there different calls for each or can you call all with the same calls?

Chad

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Re: Predator Calling
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2016, 05:58:21 PM »
     In general,  most predators will respond to most any distress sound.  I've called coyotes, gray fox and red fox on rabbit and bird distress.   The old smart predators become a little smarter and wiser to the commonly used sounds. 
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Re: Predator Calling
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2016, 06:07:19 PM »
That's good to know.  So then I'm guessing that fox and coyotes only come to their given distress calls?

What about cats and coon, do they pretty much come to anything?

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Re: Predator Calling
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2016, 06:40:15 PM »
Pretty much any animal will respond out of curiosity to any distress sound.  Yes    Fox will respond to fox distress, coon will respond to coon distress etc.
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Re: Predator Calling
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2016, 10:05:32 PM »
Coyotes will respond to the Gray Fox Pup but most times hunters are set up close to the speaker when hunting gray fox and the coyote ends up busting them...  This is the time of the year to use combo calls.. The Gray and Red fight or Gray and red Combo .. Or the Red Fox distress. See reds are mating no and they will come right to the speaker this time of the year when your doing fox distress sounds.. As you know the gray and the red fox are mortal enemies so you should never start off your calling with the gray fox distress sound.. Your best to use a food sound first...By the way the gray fox always wins the fight they are more aggressive ...Some of your best distress food sounds are baby cottontail,  baby woodpecker, etc..If the wind picks up and they can't hear the sounds that's when I go to using Jack Rabbit Distress sounds... When your using a bird distress of any kind... Just let it rip too.. when birds are hurting they just keep crying out ....Get yourself a bulb squeaker to use.. You should start your calling with this and end it with this.. First  5 min and the last  5 min.. You can call in predator up to 500 yards away just using bulb squeaks.  You should learn how to use an open reed call too.. They look like a SAXAPHONE MOUTH PIECE. They don't freeze up with your spit like a closed reed metal voice channel.. A good one for beginners to start off with is:  The Primos Little Dog open reed call.. They come two to a pack.. Easier for some reason to use that call to talk the talk...

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Re: Predator Calling
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2016, 11:49:49 PM »
Thanks everyone for your response and of course a special thanks to UB.

I'm looking forward to my day of hunting on Monday and am trying to set up a game plan of calling in my head before I go out. I have the Johnny Stewart Attractor Max which only has 10 sounds.

I'm not going to add any because I have a FP Wildfire II on the way from Foxhound. So next weekend I'll be using that instead.

Chad