electriconic deer calls
- Thread starter triton
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I don't know where you are, but in Quebec electronic big game calls are illegal. They are sold here, but if you look closely at the packaging they have a line somewhere that says for training purposes or something to that effect.
saskhunter
CGN Regular
- Location
- Sask to B.C.
Not here in sask, I believe only for migratory birds they are a no-no
I don't know of anyone who uses them for deer though. Moose yes and I did see some hunter in the woods once with a big boom box and an elk tape playing(sounded awful) probably just the player.
I don't know of anyone who uses them for deer though. Moose yes and I did see some hunter in the woods once with a big boom box and an elk tape playing(sounded awful) probably just the player.
I've heard the call from various groups for us "older" hunters to encourage and mentor the youth to take up the sport of hunting, get them away from the malls, video games and electronic gizmos that they all seem to be plugged into these days. I very much feel "urged" to take this call and teach some of these youngsters my sport, firearm safety, good field conduct and sportsmanship. When I hear about these electronic devices, cheap quads and so on, I feel so discouraged 
. Everyonce in a while, one comes along that gives me hope that our sporting heritage will be upheld for years to come.
. Everyonce in a while, one comes along that gives me hope that our sporting heritage will be upheld for years to come. I've heard the call from various groups for us "older" hunters to encourage and mentor the youth to take up the sport of hunting, get them away from the malls, video games and electronic gizmos that they all seem to be plugged into these days. I very much feel "urged" to take this call and teach some of these youngsters my sport, firearm safety, good field conduct and sportsmanship. When I hear about these electronic devices, cheap quads and so on, I feel so discouraged
Thank you, and I did go home, and quite happy to be back to tell you the truth. No offense meant, but home is where the heart is.
Don't worry about our sport being passed on. It may not seem that way, but there are youth that are brought up to respect firearms, wildlife and nature. Some of us have live that way all our lives. When I was in jr, and high school I was one of very few that loved to hunt, my friends weren't into it, to many other things to do. Now, most of the friends I went to school with enjoy it as much as I do. I grew up in the country though, it may be different in the cities, but from only a few loving the outdoors to the majority, I think we'll do alright.
Further thinking on electronic calls. Electronic calls as I know them (and I don't know them very much) would not likely not allow for a change in strategy. Aren't these calls basically are play, stop, rewind, etc.? A well practised caller using his reed, diaphragm, bleet or grunt tube call can change tone, duration, agressiveness based on circumstances. Perhaps a small bull or buck doesn't want to fight with a larger male, but may be interested in checking out a new girlfriend. These are tones "attitudes" that can be altered by a hunter who's willing to put time afield and learn his quarry. Calling in a buck, bull or even a doe by one's own means just makes it that much more of a trophy.
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The tapes cannot be actual animals, you have to make the sounds yourself.I had one of a female moose that sounded real until you heard a giggle in the background noise.Hard to make sounds of a moose having ### in a stream without giggling.
Rich
- Location
- Near Coldwater, Ont
Actually the ones I have seen have a button for each sound. Just push the appropriate button for the sound you want. I've only tried them out in the store though, I'm sticking to my grunt tube and bleat can for hunting. The electronic calls are legal for use in Ontario on big game though.
