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

Posted July 13, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 8 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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Flextone Mimic eH1 Handheld Predator & Game Call Now at Wildlife Callers’ Store

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

At under $40 bucks, the Flextone Mimic eH1 predator call is preloaded with 40 sounds from the Wildlife Technologies Sound Library and is now part of what Wildlife Callers’ Store can offer readers and customers for this upcoming predator hunting season.

The new Flextone callers (handheld eH1 and remote controlled eR1) are loaded with other hunting sounds too. Where it’s legal, you can use them for calling deer, calling crows, calling hogs & javelina, calling squirrels, and more.

You can see both Flextone callers and their sound lists 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 predator caller and eventually owning a high-end remote controlled do-all Mighty Atom predator calling workhorse, Wildlife Callers’ Store 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.

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

Field Note:

On our first stand with the Mimic eH1, Marc Reindell of Wildlife Callers called 2 coyotes. The coyotes came out of a drainage near a large prairie just outside of Flagstaff, AZ. One arrived at about 30 seconds into the stand and number 2 arrived at about 3 minutes. Does the Flextone Mimic eH1 work? Yes.

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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Coyote Howling Techniques – Northern Iowa Callers Jim and Justin Blauwet Turn the Tables on Wary Dogs

Posted February 12, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 2 comments.

You’ve just dropped a bunch of money on a new caller. People around town tell you that the local coyotes just won’t come to a call anymore – “they’ve all heard a call a dozen times”. What do you do? Jim and Justin Blauwet use coyote vocalizations and leave the screaming rabbit sounds alone. Here’s their tactic that’s worked several times.

If a regular dog comes a runnin’ when it hears a can opener in the kitchen (a conditioned response), then it stands to reason that a coyote can also be conditioned by fooling it with a prey distress call, and then allowing it to barely escape with it’s life amid a hail of bullets.

That lucky coyote might still come to investigate a screamin’ rabbit sound, but the chances of it running in full-blast time and again are diminished with every negative encounter or impression – simple conditioning. Because of Mother Nature’s mixed message – sometimes the screamin’ sound is natural and associated with food – sometimes the screamin’ comes with smelly lumps of camouflage shaped like humans and loud bangs from predator rifles – coyotes naturally become conditioned to be cautious.

Justin Blauwet and His January Iowa Coyote

Using their new Wildlife Technologies Mighty Atom 15 electronic predator call, the Blauwet’s have called several of the “uncallable” coyotes. If you own Other Brands of Predator Callers you most likely have a series of sounds that will allow you to recreate this sequence.

Here’s how they do it:

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