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A Cool Getaway From The Desert Heat, PVCI Novice Bootcamp

Posted August 12, 2010 By Marc Reindell and has no comments yet.

Our friends at Phoenix Varmint Callers club are holding a novice callers bootcamp in the cool pines of Payson, AZ this upcoming weekend, Saturday, August 14th at 9 am.

Rich Higgins, well known coyote behavior expert, and others will be conducting seminars and clinics on proper calling techniques for the beginning predator caller, but seasoned callers may be interested in attending as well.

Seminars will cover:

Proper set up
Firearm selection
Stand selection
Rules and Regs for predator hunting in AZ
Sounds used for calling and why
Use of ladders for calling in heavy brush

Directions to the bootcamp are as follows: Take 87 north through Payson and Strawberry. 6 or 7 miles past Clints Well, just past the Blue Ridge Ranger station, go east on FR 95. About a mile in take FR 513 to the left and follow it to the Boot Camp site. Signs will be posted as well to guide you to the site. Camping will be available for those that may want to head up Friday evening and stay for the weekend.

You may also want to attend: The AZ State Calling Contest that will be held at Cabela’s in Glendale, AZ on Saturday, August 28th at 3PM. Registration for the event begins at 10 AM and a seminar on Intro to Predator Calling will be held at 11 AM.

For more info on both events, contact Rich Higgins at 480-474-7581.

A good way to get out of the hot desert and get yourself geared up for the upcoming season!

Good hunting!

Marc Reindell

marc@wildlifecallers.com

Categories: News & Media, Predator calling

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San Carlos Indian Reservation Electronic Predator and Other Game Animal Calling

Posted May 18, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 7 comments.

San Carlos is a spectacular place to hunt, both in terms of the scenic views and the variety of predators you can call there. But, is it legal to use your electronic caller on their reservation?

As of this Wildlife Callers blog post (May 2010) it is NOT legal to use an electronic call to call/attract any animals with an electronic call on the San Carlos Reservation.

San Carlos Indian Wildlife & Recreation Regulation 002-M

You can access the regualtion by CLICKING HERE and then choosing “Regulations” on the left margin.

Yes, some of the rules and regs on San Carlos have changed often and this one is no exception. However, better to know the current rules and either use hand calls, or go somewhere else. I’ve hunted on San Carlos for the past 24 years and I will be headed elsewhere until it changes back. Dave Martens and I have spent thousands of dollars in permit fees on San Carlos and we’re not sure what they’re trying to accomplish with this rule. Hopefully it will change soon, but until it does the hand calling crowd will have it all to themselves!!

San Carlos has also been a hot hunting spot for out of state hunters looking for lots of ground to hunt and reasonable daily rates for predator calling and small game hunting. If you know an out of stater that likes predator calling and hunting on San Carlos, please pass this blog post along. The San Carlos Game & Fish guys have always been great with us, but they absolutely will ticket violators and confiscate your caller.

Thank you again for your questions that give us these opportunities to do some research and blog about it. As always, subscriptions to the blog are FREE.

If you have any comments, please scroll down and add them below in the comments section.

Thanks for reading,

Mark Healy

mark@wildlifecallers.com

Categories: Books & Education, Predator calling

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Liberal Love Letters From Anti-Hunting Moonbats & Media Manipulated Stooges

Posted March 8, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 20 comments.

We were recently interviewed by two Arizona news papers – The AZ East Valley Tribune and the Arizona Republic. One story generated mostly positive calls and emails, while the other generated several death threats. Yep, death threats. The contrast is worth examining.

: Miscellaneous Moonbat

What’s noteworthy here is not that the news stories are different – there will always be differences from reporter to reporter & editor to editor, and we realize “news” is written for the benefit of the paper and for profitable ad revenues. What’s most interesting, and somewhat fascinating, is the way some people can be so easily manipulated to homicidal hostility by an article that’s had no independent review.

When a reader takes the time to send me an email that reads:

Comment: “I’d F$#&ing shoot you in the head if I saw you in person. You filthy scumbag murderer of non-human life.”

It’s a safe bet this person has been, and is completely unaware they have been, manipulated. Remember, this person, armed with nothing more than an unverified story from a newspaper, has just suggested that he/she would commit murder to avenge the death of an animal that was legally hunted, humanely killed, and then consumed as food and preserved as a trophy.

There were several others emails & postcards like this. Not one of these windbags had the courage to identify themselves. These are the morons with “Keep Abortion Legal” and “Meat is Murder” bumper stickers juxtaposed on the back of their Honda hybrids.

You wonder, are people manipulated by the media? I’d say alarmingly so, but I’ve put the stories below for your review. You be the judge. We want to know what you think, please take a moment to comment after you read this! (more…)

Categories: News & Media, wildlife technologies

Tags: Arizona outdoors, Arizona predator hunting, Hunting, International Sportsman Expo, Mighty Atom, wildlife callers, wildlife technologies

Predator Calling, Wildlife Callers, The ISE and Mark Healy in the News-AZ East Valley Tribune

Posted February 20, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 3 comments.

Ed Taylor from the East Valley Tribune wrote a very fair depiction of predator calling and hunting in this weeks Trib. His write-up also discussed Wildlife Callers LLC as a new/local business in Arizona, and featured the upcoming International Sportsman’s Expo Predator Calling Expert Panel being held Saturday February 27, at 1:30pm.

You can view the entire article by clicking here

Wildlife Callers LLC, Mark Healy & The Wildlife Technologies Mighty Atom 21

The article was a mix of local event, sports, outdoors, business, and new product reporting. With all of the negative reporting on hunting in general, and the fact that many reporters would have become fixated on the look of my rifle, we appreciate Mr. Taylor’s objective reporting on our sport.

You can thank him via email at etaylor@aztrib.com or by clicking on his name at the top of the article.

Anyone interested in learning more about the Wildlife Technologies Mighty Atom 21 caller in the article can click here.

Thank you again for supporting Wildlife Callers and reading our blog. And, a big thank you to Ed Taylor and the East Valley Tribune for covering this story.

Comments & Questions are always welcome!

Good calling,

Mark Healy

mark@wildlifecallers.com

480-882-1210

Categories: News & Media, Predator calling, Shows and Expos, wildlife technologies

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New Year’s Resolution – Introduce Kids & Adults to Predator Calling

Posted February 3, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 4 comments.

Since a peak in the mid 1980′s, the number of hunting licenses sold in the United States has been on a decline. Source: ESPN Outdoors. Anti-hunting groups are relentless in their legislative attempts to take away our legal & ethical American pastime. Our best defense is to make sure our voter ranks are filled up with new/ethical hunters every year. Take a kid or neighbor predator calling and get them addicted too!

I’ve always had the hunting bug, but my father was not a hunter – not even a little bit. He used to take me deer hunting and tell me to “go look for some over there” pointing to a mountain. He’d nap in the truck and I’d wander around aimlessly. Then, a local teacher and predator caller, Ken Brink, took me hunting in 1986. Bang!! Three coyotes on the first stand and I was forever hooked. After a good day calling, there was never a string of bad days that could deter me from going again – I always knew my next good day was eventually coming.

Here are a few predator callers who are passing the fun and addiction to people who can spread the word and keep the fire burnin’.

Ned and Liz Burris spent a cold November Sunday calling together, and Liz called in her first bobcat. Liz could have been discouraged after 5 gray & rainy stands without seeing anything (she didn’t even see the coyote Ned shotgunned on the first stand until it was dead & down), but Ned kept her spirits up and it paid off. What an outstanding day calling!