Wildlife Callers

Wildlife Callers welcomes Scott Francom’s first guest post. Scott is a field rep for GameTraks callers and has been featured on our site once before after spending a day in the field with Mark Healy of Wildlife Callers.

Scott sent us some photos of his Arizona predator hunting double down day last week, we asked him to share his story with us and he agreed, read Scott’s story here.

Scott Francom - GameTraks field rep.

Josh Ebert and I go calling together about once a month and when we get together,  we generally always have the same results – bobcats and gray foxes.  It’s not hard to understand why our take always includes these two species of predators.  We both have grown to enjoy the terrain these two species share and the unique way in which they both come to the call rivals nothing else in the Arizona desert.

Our most recent excursion had us knee deep in Junipers and crawling up and down large boulders.  Josh had scouted the area previously on a deer hunt and knew there were gray foxes in the area and where there are grays there most certainly are bobcats.  We quaded in on a rough forest road to an overlook with a vast collection of tan boulders and smaller rock formations.

Josh and I separated ourselves on the downward slope and I positioned the GameTraks caller between us on the flat ground.  I sat on the ground,  slipped my shooting sticks over my Savage .17hrm, and pressed the button that began the Johnny Stewart Gray Fox Distress soundbyte on the GameTraks caller down below.  The valley lit-up with the squeaking and raspy growling of a hurt fox.  Five minutes of this and I heard Josh lip squeak to my far right. (more…)