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Predator Calling Sound Pictures – What are You Telling Your Target Predators?

Posted July 22, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 1 comment.

There was time when a single sound of a crying rabbit from your Johnny Stewart mouth call was all you needed to bring Wile Coyote running. Today the calling pressure is on and times have changed. Call more “un-callable” critters and get the most from your e-caller by using the whole sound library!

Back in the day…

Mark Healy and an Arizona Coyote & Gray Fox that Fell for Cottontail Distress - circa 1986-87

a tape recorder with a Johnny Stewart rabbit distress tape, or my Circe twist-top 3-sound mouth call would give a guy plenty of opportunities to call and shoot predators. When I started predator calling in 1986, the sport was only somewhat popular and unless you called the same spots over and over, the chances of calling at critters that already heard that same ol’ song before was slim. This was the same time in Arizona hunting history when guys got a December “Any Antlered Deer” tag and would NOT even consider hunting for a Coues Whitetail! My, my, how times have changed as thousands of hunters apply for what’s become just a handful of December Coues tags.

These days it seems that just about everyone who likes hunting has added or wants to add an electronic predator call to his or her hunter’s gear bag. Several years ago the predator hunting videos took off in popularity and people got excited about calling coyotes, bobcats, and other critters, to the business end of their rifle — especially in states where their chances of getting a deer and/or elk tag was fading every year. With this sport’s new-found explosive popularity over the past decade, the chances of calling into country that hasn’t been called is slim.

I just finished talking to a guy who called for a full 2-years with a mouth call before he ever called his first coyote. Now, I will say that I appreciate this young man’s tenacity! However, if he’d had some better techniques, better understanding of his quarry, and better calling equipment, I firmly believe he could have cut that figure down by 1 year and 11 months.

But how? (more…)

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It’s Official! Electronic Calls Legal for Idaho Wolf Hunts.

Posted July 13, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 6 comments.

Idaho wildlife officials announced this past Wednesday evening that electronic game calls and trapping will be legal methods of take during their 2010 wolf hunting season.

Wolf - Courtesy of the US Fish & Wildlife Service/Tracy Brooks

With Idaho elk herds in a steady decline and no reasonable recovery in sight, the game commissioners found it a reasonable step to include electronic calls as a wolf hunting method to help reach 2010 wolf harvest objectives. Remember that any action favoring wolf hunting or wolf hunters will face immediate opposition and legal challenges from well funded anti-hunting organizations. We are, however, optimistic that Idaho’s wildlife managers will prevail in moving forward this need based, well documented, biologically sound, action plan for better wolf control in their state.

For more details and commentary, see the article in the Idaho Statesman: Electronic Calls Fair Game in Idaho Wolf Hunts

After taking dozens of phone calls last season from hunters very interested in calling an Idaho wolf (that’s you California hunters!) we’re looking forward to actually being able to deliver them a Wildlife Technologies Mighty Atom caller. Last season we had to turn ‘em down — not so this wolf season! (more…)

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Coyote Pair Called on Video – Mouse Squeaks & Crow Sounds Bring ‘em In

Posted June 15, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 2 comments.

While in Chillicothe, Missouri this past January for a few days of coyote and mixed-bag predator calling, I captured this pair of winter coyotes coming to the call.

These coyotes responded in about 7-8 minutes to a mixture of mouse and vole distress squeaks combined with sounds of crows mobbing food and excited crow calling from my Wildlife Technologies Mighty Atom 21 electronic wildlife caller. I’ve used this technique successfully many other times. I play the sounds continuously and vary the volume from medium to medium/loud. Once the predator is spotted coming in, I drop the volume to keep it/them moving toward the speaker.

Unfortunately, the shooter hit the coyote too far back to be immediately effective.

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Good calling,

Mark Healy

mark@wildlifecallers.com

Categories: Predator calling, coyote, wildlife technologies

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Flextone Mimic eH1 Now at Wildlife Callers – Plus a Bonus Ohio Squirrel Attack Recreation

Posted May 13, 2010 By Mark Healy and has no comments yet.

The Flextone Mimic eH1 is preloaded with 40 sounds from the Wildlife Technologies sound library and is now part of what Wildlife Callers can offer readers and customers for this upcoming season.

You can see both callers by CLICKING HERE or on the picture below.

The Flextone Mimic eH1 and the Echo eR1

Every hunter’s budget is different, especially in these uncertain times. So, to bridge the gap between not having but wanting an electronic caller and eventually owning a high-end remote controlled do-all field workhorse, Wildlife Callers now offers the Flextone Mimic eH1 for just under $40 bucks. The Mimic is one half of Flextone’s new e-caller line up. Flextone is also coming out with a remote controlled unit called the Echo eR1. The eR1 has a June delivery date and we’ll provide more details on that machine as they come out.

In this attached video we discuss some of the questions we’ve received about the new Mimic handheld caller. We also take some satirical license and “recreate” the 911 call from an Ohio family that had to be freed by police after they were “trapped” in their home by a “temperamental” squirrel – yes you read that right – a squirrel. Enjoy…

These callers are a direct result of the demand for Wildlife Technologies sounds on machines that more guys can afford – your ideas in action.

If you still have a question about this caller, please send it in – info@wildlifecallers.com or give us a call toll-free at 1-877-734-1010

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Thank you again for reading and good hunting!

Mark Healy

mark@wildlifecallers.com

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Spring Turkey Calling with Diaphragm Calls – Wit and Wisdom from Guest Blogger Ben G. of Ben G. Outdoors

Posted April 2, 2010 By Marc Reindell and has 4 comments.

Mouth calls, also known as diaphragm calls, can be very hard to master. If you’re new to turkey calling or thinking about using a turkey mouth call for the first time, this post should give you some humorous insight into learning the basics for calling the gobblers using a mouth call. Our friend and fellow blogger Ben Gustafson was good enough to write up a guest post for us. Ben has his own outdoor blog, Ben G.Outdoors. Ben lives in Minnesota, is a family man, and is a passionate deer hunter.

Ben Gustafson and son

Last year was my first experience turkey hunting. I went into the whole thing blindly with no one to mentor me, I relied heavily on reading as much as possible about every aspect of turkey hunting. After a lot of reading on the subject of turkey calling I decided to pick up two different styles of calls. I picked up a slate call and a mouth call, both had their pluses and minuses, and they were also the hardest to master. To make a long story short I came to like the mouth call the best and seemed to have the best luck with it. Here are some of the problems I faced when learning to use the call and also some great pointers on how to use a mouth call. (more…)

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