Coffee Can, check. Now, where to set up shop?

Like fogducker sez...the string doesn't move in the can ...your fingers slide down the damp string (like many others I use a skate lace) .
I've never seen a cow urinate in the water (to call a bull), but I watched a cow feeding in a small pond , below a treestand that I built . She would completely submerge her head, grab something to eat, bring her head back out of the water .The splashing, gushing sound so beloved of hunters was the result of the water draining off her head and mane and returning to the pond . She would stand there quietly , just her ears swiveling and her jaws moving until the last few drops plinked into the water....then repeat the whole process .
She never made a vocal sound , that I could hear(I was only 20 yards from her and her calf) only the sounds of walking and feeding in the water, but whatever she did was sure effective . A big bull came roaring and crashing through the tag-alders...sounded like a bull-dozer.....but that's another story...
 
We use the black velvet can too, but we use a leather lace. There is no tinny sound from that can, and, one of our guys has the tecnique down pat. Wet the string, hang on tight and give a sharp pull forcing the lace through your fingers for a loud grunt. We do it at night from the camp to call in moose for the following day. It's very loud, and I think it carries further at night, when everything is quiet.
 
Dropping water on any loud surface from a height gets the bulls going. I've done this on a road and watched a bull respond by squatting down on his hinds and pissing on his back legs. Just make sure it's not ALL your drinking water because you'll need that after the bulls down. :oops:

I found the commercial restaurant ketchup can to be "tougher" and less "tinny" sounding than a regular coffee.

Also a big plastic jug with the bottom cut out works well for rubbing the brush. I've even called then in with a plastic water bottle and a oil jug with the bottom removed and stuck on a stick. Now I use our green plastic coleman latern case lid.
 
The Keepa, fogducker and John Y Cannuck:
Ah-hah!!
I (ahem) was pulling the string through the hole an arms length!
All I got was a heavy breathing sound. :D Geeze, I can be thick. :shock:
 
barnacle said:
The Keepa, fogducker and John Y Cannuck:
Ah-hah!!
I (ahem) was pulling the string through the hole an arms length!
All I got was a heavy breathing sound. :D Geeze, I can be thick. :shock:
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lmfao.....ha ha....dont feel bad....the first i heard of the can...i thought the guys at camp were trying to pull a prank on me (the new guy in camp)
we all have learned a few trick,s of the trade here in gun nutz :D
barnacle.......so have you tried to do the real way?how did sound?
 
We had company over and I recruited a friend to help me assemble the new magic gadget. Shortly after the first clearly unsuccessful attempts, I was left to my own devices and sat by myself playing with the can and string in my lap. So now it's wheezing sounds from the goof in the corner playing with himself!

But, if anything I'm resilient. I've waited until 11:15pm to give it another go. My son was sleeping and wife was trying too.

The clown honking noise I produced was sufficient to get the dog barking and my wife calling from upstairs. I think it's an immeasurable success! A bit of fine tuning and I'll have the cat singing along. Watch out mooses, magic string can is on the looses!

I'll refine it further tomorrow. I feel humbled, but pleased. :wink:

From the Toronto sewers, eh? Those wouldn't happen to be near Islington and the 401 by chance?
 
Well, yah Foxer! First thing after dinner tonight was take it out like a kid with a new toy :twisted:.

I had better luck starting the pull about 12 to 18" away from the can as it was a lower pitched sound. Yeeeeap,(puff chest out) couple more nights of trumpeting and I'll be playing Jingle Bells in time for Christmas. :lol:
 
barnacle said:
Well, yah Foxer! First thing after dinner tonight was take it out like a kid with a new toy :twisted:.

I had better luck starting the pull about 12 to 18" away from the can as it was a lower pitched sound. Yeeeeap,(puff chest out) couple more nights of trumpeting and I'll be playing Jingle Bells in time for Christmas. :lol:
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oh no a monster was created :p
 
Well, yah Foxer! First thing after dinner tonight was take it out like a kid with a new toy
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Oh dear.

couple more nights of trumpeting and I'll be playing Jingle Bells in time for Christmas
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Oh God! :lol:

Well - jingle bells at christmas perhaps, but i'm guessing "silent night" may be a more common request around your place for the next little while... :lol: :lol:
 
Last year after the moose hunt I had my can out on the back deck.Give a few pulls on the lace loaded with rosin, had all the dogs howeling. I would wait till they settled down then give it a few more pulls. :) At last my wife said get in the house you old FOOL :shock: Well I just had to do it one more time. :lol: Next day one of my nieghbors asked me if I heard the moose, my wife & I pissed ourselves :lol: . I told her it was not to bad after all.Only no moose showed up. DAN>>> :mrgreen:
 
what is rosin
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Rosin is a hard form of resin. Amongst its many uses, it tends to increase friction. So an instrument string (or shoelace) coated with bow rosin will have the same effect as water on the string of the can. (remember, the can doesn't work with a dry lace).

The benefit there is you don't need to haul water around with you, and the rosin won't freeze as easily on the string in cold weather.

In this application, it's an effective water-subsitute for making your 'instrument' work.
 
Well a music store would be my guess for bow rosin. (they use it on fiddles and the like.)

Maybe dizzy knows if there's a cheaper supply?
 
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