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Post by fyimo on Dec 7, 2009 11:57:57 GMT -6
After doing a lot of research on electronic varmint callers I decided on a Foxpro but I couldn't justify the FX3 for $350 so yesterday I ordered the new Foxpro Spitfire call for $199. It comes with 24 calls loaded into it and the place I ordered it from All Predator Calls loads in the ones you select from the Foxpro list of calls. The nice thing about it is that it stores the calls on a memory card so I can get another card and load other calls into to it anytime I want. In fact I'll use a card reader to off load a copy of the calls that come on it onto my Computer in a file and start to build a data base for future use. The unit operates with a remote so you can set it out up wind and go back to your stand and then start it with the call of your choice. I'm hoping by next week to start hunting with it. Our rifle deer season ended Sunday so except for a few short special hunts it will be archery and varmint hunters in the woods until March 1st. I'll keep you posted on how it works after I use it a few times.
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Post by sksfordman on Dec 7, 2009 12:12:20 GMT -6
Let us know, I may buy that same unit Art. I have been on their website several times in the last 2 years. We have muzzle loader season #2 starting this weekend, and a 2 day youth hunt after Christmas on the 27th, and 28th, then we have a year round coyote season here in Ky. I'm going to set my box blind at the back fence row, and hunt over the cornfields behind our farm, that I have hunting rights on. Randy
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Post by ibugly on Dec 7, 2009 13:59:59 GMT -6
It's a long ways from taking a heavy battery powered record player and bull horn back in the woods and playing a record that's for sure. Been on a few of those hunts. Good luck with it.
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Post by sksfordman on Dec 7, 2009 15:00:54 GMT -6
I've got a homemade player using a small amp and speaker from Radio Shack, and I use an old portable Sharp Mini disc player to play my calls. I have a 150' of speaker wire, that i run from the amp to the speaker, and the amp and MD player, or sometimes my laptop, will pla the calls at my side in the blind, using mp3 calls downloaded from varmintals, or other sources on the internet. It works real well if you don't try to play it for 3 counties, which is what I did. My son has one of the cheapest Foxpro electronic callers. He hopes to thin the coyotes out a bunch around here before the fawns are born!!
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Post by ibugly on Dec 7, 2009 19:24:51 GMT -6
We've got them here now too. Not sure how many but Caretaker and me heard one howl about daybreak one morning a couple weeks ago.
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Post by caretaker on Dec 7, 2009 19:46:05 GMT -6
I rember my dad talking about going on a hunt with ib`s pappyand some other guys. He said the only problem they had was one of the guys nose kept drippin and freezin on the record.
Art please keep us posted as to how it works. may look into one if ib and I start having yote problems on his place. Would like to see the deer herd increase with a few fawns.
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Post by kg5388 on Dec 7, 2009 19:59:02 GMT -6
I use one of these I just lay it out under a snoopy dog after they bush hog or cut beans it plays dieing rabbit over and over with about 8 sec between calls
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Post by caretaker on Dec 7, 2009 20:09:16 GMT -6
Kevin, that sounds great.
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Post by ibugly on Dec 7, 2009 21:40:46 GMT -6
Me and Pappy used to call up foxes in broad daylight. We had hand held homemade callers. I reckon a fox is one of the easiest to call in.
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Post by sksfordman on Dec 7, 2009 22:55:55 GMT -6
We've got them here now too. Not sure how many but Caretaker and me heard one howl about daybreak one morning a couple weeks ago. You want to hear how many area? Go out after dark, and howl like a coon hound, or any dog or yote sound. They will be yelping like crazy, along with the neighbors dogs too!
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Post by ibugly on Dec 8, 2009 0:58:40 GMT -6
Across the valley from me someone has a bunch of dogs penned up. About three or four times a day they cut loose barking like crazy for a few minutes then stop as fast as they started. Those aren't yotes though as the location is always the same. Likely someones hounds. This was a lone howl. A bit too high for a dog. I go outside on the deck at various times at night but this was the first one I've heard here. It could have been between where we were and my parents house or it could have been from across the valley as well. When you get close to the top of a ridge sounds can really travel.
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Post by sksfordman on Dec 8, 2009 10:02:42 GMT -6
My wife hates to go out at night alone, cause of the howling of the yotes going on! Most of the yotes are bedding about 500 yards from the back, and front of my house, in the heavy woods!!
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