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Coyote Finesse – Dave Martens and Dan Tone Turn the Volume Down and Nail This Pair

Posted January 28, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 3 comments.

Dave Martens of Wildlife Callers Blog and his buddy Dan Tone of Apache Junction, Arizona teamed up for a day of mixed-bag predator calling just after our last heavy rain and snow storm. Two coyotes and one gray fox later, they’d had a great morning.

Dave and Dan figured they’d find some hungry & willing predators after five-days of hard rain and snow throughout the state. They headed into Arizona’s Unit 23 and in four wet & muddy stands, called in two coyotes and one gray fox. The coyotes pictured below both came right to the speaker in under five minutes. The gray fox came in super-quick too, stayed in tight cover, and ran out just as quick as he’d arrived.

Dan Tone - AKA "The Shotgun Sniper" and Two Excellent AZ Coyotes

The project for the day was to set up in good locations, keep the volume down, and see what some quiet calling would do. Dave kept the volume on his Wildlife Technologies Mighty Atom at 1, 2, and 3 all of these stands.

Here is his calling sequence in more detail: (more…)

Categories: Predator calling, coyote, electronic callers, fox, wildlife technologies

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Win Free Tickets To The Phoenix International Sportsmans Expo

Posted January 27, 2010 By Marc Reindell and has no comments yet.

Want to go to the upcoming Phoenix ISE show for free? Wildlife Callers, In conjunction with John Kirk of the International Sports Expos, are offering 20 free tickets to the upcoming ISE Expo at University of Phoenix/Cardinals Stadium February 26th-28th. Mark Healy of Wildlife Callers will be part of a panel discussion on predator calling, we will announce the schedule soon!

All we ask is for you to answer a predator hunting trivia question! The first 20 correct responses will be awarded one free ticket to the show, a value of $15.00, tickets will be good for any single day of the show! Parking to the show is free and children 15 or younger are admitted free as well!

All answers need to be submitted to us by no later than February 19th, we will award the tickets to the first 20 correct responses we receive.

Ok, so here is the trivia question:

In 1957 the first “World Varmint Calling Championship” was won by Jim Dougherty of California.

Where was this event held?

Sacramento, California
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Chandler, Arizona
Kansas City, Missouri

Please send your responses to info@wildlifecallers.com no later than Feb.19th, ticket winners will be notified by e-mail with details to pick up their tickets.

Good luck! We look forward to hearing from you and awarding 20 lucky readers their tickets!

Thanks!

Marc Reindell

info@wildlifecallers.com

Tickets cannot be exchanged for cash value – this contest is void where prohibited.

Categories: Books & Education, Shows and Expos

Tags: Arizona outdoors, Arizona predator hunting, International Sportsman Expo, predator callers, Predator calling, wildlife callers

Nice Bobcat Down and a Response to a Pair of Sounds Most Callers Wouldn’t Expect

Posted January 22, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 2 comments.

One of our Arizona blog readers & veteran predator caller, Danny Avey, reads several of our posts about sounds & tactics, gives the techniques a try and calls this 28lb female bobcat in Southern Arizona. He openly shares his tactics and sound list with other readers.

We’d like to thank Danny for the open and candid way he shared his story and tactics. We hope these tips work for you too.

Danny was hunting near the Arizona/Mexico border (US side). He was calling for a mixed bag of predators, and although he wanted to call up some bobcats or a lion, he was perfectly happy chasing coyotes. About a half-hour before dark on a still & clear afternoon, this bobcat arrived on his stand. Two shots from his .223 dropped the cat 12 steps from his Wildlife Technologies KAS-2030-ML.

Danny Avey and His Southern Arizona Bobcat

Side Note: It appears that Danny’s hair slipped off his head and got stuck on his chin.

Here is a full run-down of his set-up and the sounds, times, and volume settings: (more…)

Categories: Predator calling, bobcat, coyote, electronic callers, mountain lion, wildlife technologies

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Midwestern Success! Illinois and Missouri Hunters Share Their Photos & Tactics

Posted January 12, 2010 By Mark Healy and has no comments yet.

We started Wildlife Callers’ Blog for a very simple reason – info sharing that creates more success every time a predator hunter heads out to call. Here are two customer stories that were submitted to us just last night.

A big thank you to Doug U. of Illinois and Jason S. of Missouri for sharing their photos, calling tactics, and stories.

Doug from IL says:

I was driving down the highway when I noticed two red fox bedding down in the middle of a snow-covered cornfield. I pulled off the highway and made some phone calls until I figured out who owned the property. A few phone calls later I had permission to go and call for the reds.

I chose a downwind location to enter the field and walked to a pile of snow about 100 yards from the bedding location. The foxes must have been asleep, because they didn’t jump and run. I placed my Mighty Atom 15 behind the snow pile and took up a position about 80 yards away, lying down. I started the stand with cottontail distress, nice and low. It took the male fox just a few seconds to commit to coming in and, bang! he was running hard toward the snow pile. The fox came ’round the snow pile full speed and wasn’t able to stop before colliding with the call and knocking it over. While it was wondering what the heck was going on, I shot it with my .17 HMR and dropped it right to the ground.

Doug U. of Central Illinois and his January Red Fox & Brand New Mighty Atom

I noticed the other red was standing down the field watching what was happening and I was setting up to shoot that fox too. However, the way the second fox travelled, I would be shooting toward the highway and decided to pass. That fox eventually ran off.

This was my very first setup with my new Mighty Atom and it worked very well. The .17 HMR did very little damage to the fox, and it will make an outstanding mount!

Jason S. of Trenton MO told me: (more…)

Categories: Predator calling, coyote, electronic callers, fox, wildlife technologies

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Gray Fox & Bobcat Calling – What Sounds? When? How Long? How Loud?

Posted January 11, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 7 comments.

We get asked often what our “sequences” are when we’re calling predators. It’s truly more than just a sequence of sounds that calls critters in, and I’ll explain my process of choosing sounds on a stand, the volume, the length of time I play them, etc. To kick this off, I’ve chosen gray fox and bobcats as the target animals.

Choosing gray fox and bobcats to write about was an easy choice. The hard & fast way gray fox come to the call is a confidence booster for any predator caller, and I’ve never met anyone who didn’t want to call more bobcats – ever. And, the truth is, bobcats aren’t terribly hard to call – they are terribly hard to see. I absolutely believe that most bobcats called in go unseen by the caller.

Dave Martens of Wildlife Callers AZ Bobcat & Fox Double!

Generally speaking, bobcats come slower to a call and use cover all the way in. There are always exceptions to this rule, but more often than not they will be slow and methodical about their approach. Also, if you’re serious about harvesting more bobcats, take binoculars on every stand. Once a bobcat has gotten a visual on the speaker or the bush it’s in, they will stop coming and sit down. A motionless bobcat in a bush at 30 yards is nearly impossible to see without binos.

Here is my fox & bobcat method and my typical sound list: (more…)

Categories: Predator calling, bobcat, electronic callers, fox, wildlife technologies