No doubt, Foxpro is a great caller and a great company for customer service. Something you don't see a lot of these days.
I call a lot of predators. I like to use hand calls but do you use the FP sometimes. Different tools.
I don't like commercial handcals and out of about 25 calls I use Ithink 2 are commercial made. The rest are custom calls. The customs are about the same price as the commercial models but the quality is like day and night.
Their are three main types of hand calls. Closed reed, that any one can use. Produces distress sounds, freezes in the winter and not much variation in sounds for a newbie. OPen reed has an exposed reed and does not freeze. A caller can make a large variety of sounds with anopen reed, from coyote vocals, howls, yips, pup distress right through rabbit distress, deer distress and bird sounds with a little practise.
Last is the bite call. Sometimes they will freeze in the cold, but not often. They make an aggressive distress, bird or cat sound. Very effective.
Soem times I use e caller and hand calls. With hand calls you can ave more control of the situation ad stop the coyote or bring him in farther.
The custom calls are easier to master than the commercial ones which are often hard or impossible to blow. Take a lot of air to drive them with not much sound in return and the sound is sometimes comical. This is not good for a newbie, cause your buds laugh at you and you quit calling. The call ends up out thwe window or behind the seat.
