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Fall Hunting is Coming Fast – Is Your Scouting Gear Up to Date?

Posted June 28, 2010 By Mark Healy and has no comments yet.

We’ve added two new compact trail/scouting camera styles and 4gb memory cards to The Wildlife Callers’ Store. Don’t just hunt. Hunt where you know there’s a trophy!

Are you an outfitter? Hunting or Calling Club Member? Please call for details on bulk purchasing rates. We can save you even more money on a group order! Toll Free 1-877-734-1010

Regular readers to The Wildlife Callers’ Blog know that routine scouting has been a huge part of our success in calling mountain lions. Before we spend a lot of time mountain lion calling in a particular area, we use trail cameras to find out if an area is getting frequent cougar activity. These cameras are also part of our scouting arsenal for Coues Whitetail and Elk.

We’ve had great luck with the infrared flash DLC Covert trail cameras, believe other people will too, so we became a distributor. They have a fast 1.2 second or faster trigger, take excellent 5mp photos and up to 60 seconds of video. We’re offering these great little cameras as a single unit and in a money saving twin-pack. To see specs on these battery-friendly, compact cameras in our store, just click on the photo, or CLICK HERE. As of this blog post we have them in stock and ready for immediate delivery.

Covert II Trail Camera by DLC

There is another compact game camera that caught our attention as well. Wildgame Innovations has taken some of their best & time-tested trail cam technology and put it in a much smaller case. (more…)

Categories: Predator Scouting, trail cameras

Tags: Arizona predator hunting, bobcat scouting, calling mountain lion, cougar, game cameras, Hunting, Predator Scouting, scouting, scouting cameras, trail cameras, wildlife callers, wildlife images, Wildlife Photography

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

Posted March 16, 2010 By Mark Healy and has 7 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

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Categories: coyote, Predator calling, Wildlife Photography

Tags: Arizona predator hunting, calling coyotes, coyote, coyote calling, electronic predator calling, Hunting, predator callers, Predator calling, predator hunter, predator hunting, wildlife callers, Wildlife Photography

Bobcat Caller Education – Two Good Books to Help You Locate & Call More Cats

Posted December 31, 2009 By Mark Healy and has no comments yet.

One of our blog readers asked if there were some good books we’d read and would recommend for guys looking to improve their bobcat calling results. Yes we do - here are two good reads.

Hat Tip to Alan N. of Sonoita for the great question.

You might wonder why we’re recommending trapping books. Well, both of these books are dedicated to successful bobcat locating and are full of information on behavior, travel patterns, terrain, and how to read land formations to locate more cats. Knowing that trappers must know bobcats well enough to get a bobcat’s foot in less than a six by six inch spot to trap it, then it stands to reason their locating & trap placement tactics will get us close enough to call them (or smack ‘em with a hammer).

Bobcat Trapper's Guide by Mitchell Ricketts

The Bobcat Trapper’s Guide by Mitchell Ricketts gives a lot of information on bobcat habitats across the United States. The level of detail this book offers about bobcat behavior and how to identify what the author calls “key activity areas” is outstanding. I keep this book in my calling equipment box. This book as available from Amazon both new and used.

The Competition Line Bobcat Trapping Guide & Gray Fox Refresher by Tom Miranda is not as data-driven as Ricketts’ book, and has several photos of terrain, travel areas, lay-ups, and practical advice on how to locate more bobcats. This book is an easy read and one that I keep with me in the field. Be advised, Miranda talks briefly about bobcat terrain across the US, but the focus of this book is mainly in the western US.

As always, thank you for reading and posting comments. If any of you have any book recommendations, we’d like to read them and put them on the blog. Please put them in your comments.

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May all of your stands be productive in 2010!

Mark Healy

mark@wildlifecallers.com

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

Tags: Arizona predator hunting, bobcat, bobcat calling, bobcat hunting, bobcat scouting, Hunting, predator call, Predator calling, predator hunting, Predator Scouting, wildlife callers, Wildlife Photography

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