predator calls?

[Bait O' Eggs]

I have been looking around at some predator calls and am not sure what I want. :whazzup: If it is like elk calls it wont be long and I will have all of them anyway so I dont know why I dont just start buying now [img]graemlins/dork.gif[/img]

Looking at using it for our cougar hunt, and probably a little coyote hunting.

Do I want the rabbit calls? or the doe bleat/fawn type calls? or....? those mouse calls look kind of quite, for close in work.

Any suggestions? I am thinking mouth operated, I dont want to lug around a PA system

I'd go with a fawn bleat call. Big meal big cat.

[Mello-Yello]

I've used my Sceery cow call for years. With a little practice you can make about any type call you want with it, from shrill, frantic ("I'm freaking out here!") to weak little ("oh, whoah is me...").

Just wipe your memory of these calls when elk season starts back up.

[Soft Plastic]

BOE

Hand calls are my favorite to use. Some calls to look at are Verminator's Tweety, and Thumper. The Sceery ap6 and ap7 are also good. If you want a really good handmade and tuned call look up Rich Cronk, these are the best. Any of these are good starting points.

[MarlinMark]

I second the Rich Cronk statement. I've heard nothing but awesome reports about his predator calls. His coyote howler is reportedly the best in the world.

Mark

[skein]

I mainly use mouth calls, and gravitate to the Sceery and Faulks calls, but in the case of cats, I don't think I want to be the prey. Coyotes? Sure. But big cats? I don't think so.

Also I don't think the rabbit squalling is going to get a cat to bound over the hill for a snack. I'm thinking we need to sound more like a fawn in distress or a calf bawling. You know, something that's going to represent a couple day's feast.

I have tapes and CD's of both, and the CD unit is remote controlled, so we could set it up at a couple hundred yards and turn it on or off or adjust the volume. I think that one, set up in a clearcut, would be the cat's meow.

I also have a fawn bleat mouth call, but I've never yet called anything in with it. I'll accept operator error as the reason, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Anyway, that's my thinking on the call idea.

Skein

[Rusty]

OK! I'm sold. Where can I purchase a Rick Cronk call? Since I've never heard of them before, I am not sure if I have ever seen them in the usual stores. (I know, I'm probably the only person in world who never heard of this particular call, but at least I can admit it.) [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img] :whazzup:



Rusty

[ 11-25-2003, 10:47 AM: Message edited by: Rusty ]

[MarlinMark]

Rusty, I sent you an email.

Mark