Wildlife Callers

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. 

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:

He got his new Mighty Atom 21 and called his cousin, Mark, for a few quick morning coyote calling stands.  While driving down the road they spotted a coyote standing on a snowy dirt mound near a snow covered field.  They had permission to hunt the property the coyote was standing on, so they circled around and used a row of trees to get about 200 yards from the last location they saw the coyote. 

Rather than break cover and potentially being seen by the coyote, they wisely chose to stay in the trees and set the caller just a few yards in from of them.  Jason started the coyote stand with about 2 minutes of cottontail distress on low & medium volume.  He then switched the called to Fleming Hare distress and about 30 seconds later he heard Mark take the safety off on his rifle.  Jason saw the coyote coming hard from the open field toward the tree line.  The coyote came bustin’ into the timber and ran right up to the speaker.

Jason said the coyote stood about 3 to 4 steps from the speaker and didn’t know what to do next.  Jason had his crosshairs on the shoulder of the nicely furred winter dog, but waited several seconds for his cousin to take the shot first.  He waited…and waited…and waited…and finally touched off a round from his 22-250 and the coyote dropped straight down to the snow.   Jason asked Mark what the hold up was and Mark told him he was just waitin’ to see how close the coyote would actually get to the speaker.   Apparently Jason thinks 4 yards is close enough – Boom!!

We appreciate both of these gentlemen sharing their hunt stories & photos with us, but moreover their tactics and sounds they used to create successful stands. 

We wish every one of our readers much success in the field, and will continue to support your wildlife and predator calling pursuits with stories like these. 

Questions and comments are always appreciated – and don’t forget that subscriptions to this blog are always FREE. 

Good hunting!

Mark Healy

mark@wildlifecallers.com