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World Predator Hunting Expo is Open!

Posted March 19, 2010 By Mark Healy and has no comments yet.

At 2pm today (March 19, 2010) the Predator Expo opened to predator callers & hunters from all around Ohio and the Eastern US. We’re looking for outstanding products to bring our readers and there’s no shortage of them here. Many of the industry’s manufacturers and distributors came from all over the country to display their gear.

We’re in booth 415 on the main aisle showing off the Wildlife Technologies Mighty Atom MA-15 and MA-21 models, and The Gun Claw.

Wildlife Callers Booth at the World Predator Hunter's Expo

The DPMS Black Cat Express was parked inside the Expo with more than 50 rifles on display. DPMS sales rep Shane Cuperus and Brian Downs from The Predator Talkcast are looking at one of several .223 rifles in the rolling showroom.

In the DPMS Black Cat Express with Shane Cuperus (DPMS Sales) and Brian Downs (Predator Talkcast)

The Predator Masters booth was just around the corner from the DPMS showroom. Barry Stewart and Matt McCauley were passing out literature and speaking with folks at the show.

Predator Masters Booth with Barry Stewart (rockinbbar) and Matt McCauley (javafour) showing off the PM 2010 Coyote Rifle

MAD Calls & Flambeau Decoys and FOXPRO game calls are across from each other on the main aisle.

Mad Calls and Flambeau Decoys on the Main Aisle

FOXPRO Booth on the Main Aisle

Dozens of other vendors and manufacturers lined the aisles, offering show guests hundreds of products and services. The EOTech Booth and Predator Lights Booth are located just outside the World Predator Calling Competition Stage.

John Bailey with EOTech

Matt McDonnell & Charlie Crotser of Predator Lights

The Deer and Turkey Expo is happening at the Ohio Expo center this same weekend, and we’re expecting the foot traffic in the Predator Expo to be great on Saturday and Sunday. If you have the opportunity to meet us at the show, we’re looking forward to seeing you.

Thank you again for reading,

Mark Healy

mark@wildlifecallers.com

Categories: Predator calling, Shows and Expos

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Video Blog – Barking a Coyote to a Stop, Bad Shooting, & Anti-Hunter Comments

Posted March 16, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 4 comments.

In this video blog Mark Healy attempts to bark a coyote to a stop with horrible results. We’ve analyzed the scenario and believe we know why the coyote hit the afterburners when he heard the bark. Take a look for yourselves and give us your thoughts.

We also take a few minutes to read a pair of reader comments from the dozens we’ve received over the last several weeks. We provide some insight, intellectual analysis, and a rebuttal to each based on professional consultation we solicited from outside the company.

We’ve all seen it before. A called coyote comes running in, the camera guy or the shooter need it to stop for a second or two, and someone barks. In the dozens of times I’ve done it, the coyote usually pauses just long enough to make a clean shot, or get some photos. Occasionally, like in this video, the coyote looks like he’s been poked with a cattle prod and getting any shot at the running dog is akin to skeet shooting.

If you click on the video a second time you can view it in full screen at YouTube.

We are always amazed and amused by the number of people who take time from their day to send us pointless personal attack emails. Now I know firsthand what Howard Stern meant when he said “Why don’t they just change the channel. No one is forced to listen to me”. Although, it would be nice to see a lib wing nut try to make a coherent argument rather than offering a simpleton death wish laced with profanity. If only…

As always, thank you for stopping in and adding value to the Wildlife Callers Blog! Better days in the field are what we’re all about. If this video makes a difference on your next hunt and you bag the coyote, we’ve achieved our goal.

A big thanks to all of you who’ve added meaningful comments in the past! New comments can be added below this post.

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Much hunting success to everyone,

Mark Healy

mark@wildlifecallers.com

Categories: Predator calling, Wildlife Photography, coyote

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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 1 comment.

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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Categories: coyote, electronic callers, 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!

Liz Burris and Her First Arizona Bobcat - Nov 2009

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Categories: Books & Education, Predator calling, bobcat, coyote

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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.

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

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