What have you called in?

[Ni!]

I've always been amazed by the types of animals that will respond to a predator call. Sometimes I'm annoyed, like when a herd of cows surrounds me and won't leave. I'm curious what kinds of animals you've had respond to your predator calls.

Here's my list:

1. Coyotes
2. Bobcats
3. Golden Eagles
4. Crows
5. Cattle
6. Horses
7. Jackrabbit (Just one. Trying for a Darwin Award, I guess.)
8. Stray dog
9. A large bat (I think it was a bat. My one try at night calling, so I couldn't see real well. Something was swooping back and forth over the speaker.)
10. A hiker

I wish cougars were as easy to call as range cows. I could have solved the decline in blacktails singlehandedly if that were the case. As it is, I have yet to see one (a cougar, that is) while calling.

Ni!

[sandman]

a mouse!No kidding,I went tweet,tweet and it came at me.I Him/her good!

[Ni!]

a mouse!No kidding,I went tweet,tweet and it came at me.I Him/her good!

Hey, you've got to protect yourself out there.

Ni!

[weekender]

Just this weekend we called in three yotes and a mulie doe. And boy was that mulie [petunias!]. She came running in full bore and stopped around 15 feet. She had this look on her face like "thats the biggest jackrabbit I've ever seen". She would snort and stomp the ground then snort again. I had heard of that happening, but never witnessed it myself. It was pretty cool to see. There for a second I thought she was going to trample us.

[ehunter]

Deer several times mule deer and and black tail deer.

[baltz526]

labrador retriever, bobcat, deer, coyotes, many birds, bear but no shot.

[Applegate]

Coyotes, bobcats,fisher,racoons,bucks,does,bulls,cows,ducks ,geese,

And several bowhunters who never saw me.

[baltz526]

i just remembered the pair of badgers.

[DAB]

Yotes
DAB

[Rank Amateur]

Yotes
Bobcats
a bear
deer
elk
hawks
crows
owls

[hunt2much]

coyotes
deer
elk
ducks
geese
all with their respective calls, exept deer with both predator and deer calling.

My buddy called in and killed a cougar while coyote hunting on the west side, last late fall/winter.

[MarlinMark]

Buckle Bunnies!

Mark

[bajadan2000]

I have called several bears in with the calf elk call.
Called a deer in once with a turkey gobble.
I need more practice.

[RogueFishr]

a bear, while trying to call in coyotes from a blind at about 10:30 at night.


RF

[Abalone]

A herd of Elk and a Doe.

The Elk came up to fifty yards of me.

[earlybird007]

elk
deer
bobcat
coyotes
bear
ducks
hunters....lol, duck and elk

[MOLDY]

2 years in a row, I called in other turkey hunters.

[Flying Roast Beef]

coyotes
one bear
lots and lots of crows
two eagles
one ferel cat (he's not eating any more birds)
a couple of stray dogs (they are still out there)
a few deer
a skunk (that was interesting)
oh yeah a hawk (that was fun I got to mess with him for almost an hour)

[nobrownline]

Yotes
elk
deer
hawks
owls
ducks
geese
bobcat
hunters
moose (oops I meen ex neighbor lady)

[waterfowlin101]

goose when duck hunting

turkey when goose hunting

bear when turkey hunting

yotes when bear hunting

people when yote hunting

and ducks when....oh nevermind!!

Jon

[Radke]

other bowhunters mainly. :tongue:

[Irish Pennant]

Pizza

[Bounty Hunter]

Javalina while yote calling (in NM).

Yotes
Crows
Cow
Quail
Ducks
Geese

6 by 6 Bull Elk to 25 yrds (in my dreams)

[Ni!]

I forgot to put gray fox on my original list. I called in one of those in Arizona. I'm surprised nobody else has fox on their list.

In non-predator hunting, I've called in elk and turkeys, I've tried calling deer w/o success. I think I've called in some ducks, but I'm really bad at that so maybe they were going to land there anyway. :tongue:

Ni!

[nobrownline]

Pizza thats a good one! wish I'd thought of that Good one Irish

[seabass]

A good looking young lady. I whistled and she came right in, slapped me and walked away.

I called in a bow hunter once when I was calling deer.

[seabass]

I was hiding in the thick brush waiting to ambush an elk. Another hunter didn't see me and decided to hide in the brush about 10 yds away. I gave out a bugle that sounded terrible. He walked away and snuck in behind me. I started hearing some excellent bugles and responded with mine, this went on for about 20 minutes till I realized that it was that other hunter. He won!

[kenbear65]

here's one, the one i will never forget. called in a 350+ 6x6 bull in wyoming 2001 15 yrds when i shot my string hit my bugle that was hanging to low and jumped my arrow off into a tree 5 yrds in front. just sat down and listend to the big boy laugh at me on his way out of the canyon. still be whining about that till the day i die.

[kenbear65]

oh yeah called in the bartender that night

[crabbait]

A couple "called 'em in" stories:

A friend and I were set up in a strip of timber on the edge of a reprod. We knew a bull with cows had been using the area and we had witnessed two 5-6 points battling late the evening before but could not make a move on them due to wind and ensuing darkness.

Behind us was a canyon/creekbottom about 700' deep and all rock. It went straight down and straight up the other side. About 1/2 mile away across the canyon was a paved road with a snowpark.

When it was almost light enough to see, I made a few soft cow mews to see if we were right on top of them, no response. As it got lighter, I increased the volume and heard a chuckle. We knew that the two bull we had seen were pretty evenly matched, so I did not want to make the bull think that I was the other bull for fear that he would grab his girls and go. Instead, I squealed at him like a spike and chuckled.

By mixing squeal/chuckle sequences with cow calls and hyper-cow calls, we managed to work the bull to within 60yds but could not get him to the edge of the reprod (and it was way too thick to try and push him. Eventually (about 1 1/2 hrs into this) the bull started to drift away and we decided to let him, and try again in the evening from a different angle.

Just then, we heard rocks rolling in the canyon behind us. My buddy was about 25yds in front of me (upwind and closer to the reprod) but from the look he gave me he heard it, too. We were both thinking that there was no way that an elk would be using the canyon. It was too steep and there were no trails, just busted basalt. There it was again, there was definetly something in the canyon big enough to roll rocks. I cow called. Nothing.

We sat looking back and forth at each other when we heard a pathetic attmpt at a cow call come from over the edge. This had to be one dedicated nimrod bow hunter. I chuckled on the Abe'n Sons and tried not to giggle. Another quavering out-of-breath hyperventalating cow call crawled out of the canyon. My partner was frantically waving for me to call again but I was losing it and could not make a sound through the stiffled laughter.

A moment later, I saw a camo hat slowly rising out of the canyon. I gathered myself enough to bellow one full-force bugle complete with squeally chuckles and desolved in mirth. The hat instantly disappeared only to slowly reappear 10' closer.

Enough is enough, so we both remained motionless as the rookie crawled out of the rock garden, eyes big as silver dollars, bleeding from a couple places, he surveyed the scene. When he had stalked to a position roughly between us, I asked him in a loud voice if he had seen anything. Thought he and his bow were both going to come unstrung!

We sat down together and shared a cup of coffee. He never saw the elk or heard them either, for that matter. He had stopped at the snowpark before daylight to get his bearings and make a decision as to where to hit the brush. He heard me squeal and chuckle and, since all he had ever heard from other hunters was ba-da-deeeee! he was sure it was an elk. So sure, that he left everything he didn't really need (no daypack = no knife, water, etc) and dove into the canyon in the dark.

We had a good laugh, stopped him before he could retreat back down into the canyon, and gave him a ride back to his car.