Moose calls

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What type of moose calls do you guys use? I've had two different reed type and the both worked like crap in the cold weather! I would like to buy a good one that won't fail on me. Does anyone here on the board make any that would be for sale? What do you guys reccomend? Thanks.

Dave.
 
Are you looking for electronic calls or a funnel for boosting your voice? I've never run into a moose caller that used anything but his voice. the reed calls work on deer i'm told but with moosew the secret is modulation & that yoy have to do yourself.

I highly recommend Gouthro's moose madness 4-DVD series available on the OFAH website. at $130 it's pricy but I found its got just about everything you'll need to know- & I've been hunting moose for 30 years, with our group of 3 or 4 averaging a moose a year for the last 10, and 5 in the previous 7 years before that, once we started to call.
 
Looking for a funnel call! I'd like to learn well with that, then advance to my hands and voice. I have a couple moose calling dvd's on order now. In the next couple months I will order the moose madness series from the ofah. I was looking at that one a week or so ago.

Dave.
 
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With my hunting partners, he uses a birch bark call that his father made long ago as well as another newer homemade birch cone. I prefer to use either my hands and/or voice without the cone. It free my hands if I need to aim and snort, grunt or call at the same time.:)

The downside is it does not reach as far and you need to call louder to do the so call "long call", :( which I usually don't like doing. I prefer more natural and slow approach instead of having to call Mr Mooooooooooose to the next mountain peak. :rolleyes:

These birch call are fairly easy to build and if you do build one, use a already cut log and skin the bark of, otherwise, it's hard on the living tree to be skinned around for 12-15in wide.

The electronic ones,well, I bought a cass creek one for moose (NOT FOR HUNTING) :eek: , just to play around as they cannot be used legally here in Qc for hunting. It was a deal on e-bay bought more as a curiosity.

It produces calf, (so so), sparring bull (sounds more like deer rattling), lonesome cow (actually not bad), mating moose (in water, good sound effects) and estrus cow ( +- good).:)

From farter away, maybe the sound of the electronic is ok but from close range, it usually and does sounds awful. :eek: :eek:

PaulT
 
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We use a small coffee can, punch a hole in the bottom, put a knot in one end of a heavy cotton boot lace and thread it through the hole.
Dampen the boot lace, support the coffee can with your forearm or just hold it, pinch the lace between thumb and index finger tightly and slide down the lace. Vary the tone by how hard you pinch, how fast you slide down the lace etc.
Practice makes perfect.:D Not really hi-tech, but the price is right and it works.
 
I use a Buckexpert 69 Probuck reed call with attachable amplifying horn. It is marketed by Buckexpert and comes with an instructional tape. As a reed type call, you have to put your mouth right over the reed, just like a woodwind instrument (don't know if you played oboe in high school;)
Not everyone can make these calls work right, but I bought mine from Mario Pepin, the founder of Buckexpert, and he personally instructed me in its use. With A LOT of practice I have mastered this call. IMHO these types of calls work well. I simply cannot reproduce the modulating tone of the cow in heat as accurately by any other non-mechanical means. I called in a bull for a 100 yd shot 3 years ago, and I could hear his cow behind him bellowing to call him back! Based on the actual tapings of moose mating calls, this can produce an accurate replication of the cow, bull and calf vocalizations. I suspect that freezing could be an issue with this call, and if so, one could fall back on a birch bark horn or juice can. Both of these will work, but the wet string on the juice can would also freeze.

My $0.02.:) Good luck!
 
I have a wildlife technoligies digital call with 40 sounds on it. cow moose in heat, bull grunts, bull thrashing. actual digital recording of the actual sounds, it's too easy though, I'd sooner use a mouth blown call. really bought it for coyotes
 
I can't call very good(compared to others that I know) ...but I've called in a lot of bulls, and even a few cows, using my hands as a megaphone , or rolled up birch bark...I've even used rolled up tar-paper or a gallon Javex jug for a megaphone . If they are horny they'll come in ...esp. the young ones .
The damp hockey-skate-lace in a coffee can works well .
It's easy to get them to answer your call(pretty exciting on a clear, frosty, quiet pre-dawn morning !) and sometimes they will come right in without a sound .
You don't have to be an expert caller to call in moose...just give it a try ....but practice (by yourself) a bit beforehand .
Another aid that we use is the shoulder blade(spatula?) from an adult moose . Scraped on brush it makes the realistic sound of a bull thrashing his antlers .
Stomping in the water and pouring back cones-full of water helps dispel any hesitation on the bull's part ....(sometimes)
 
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rodagra said:
We use a small coffee can, punch a hole in the bottom, put a knot in one end of a heavy cotton boot lace and thread it through the hole.
Dampen the boot lace, support the coffee can with your forearm or just hold it, pinch the lace between thumb and index finger tightly and slide down the lace. Vary the tone by how hard you pinch, how fast you slide down the lace etc.
Practice makes perfect.:D Not really hi-tech, but the price is right and it works.
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That is what I was going to post. I laughed my arse off when I saw that pulled out at camp last year. But man does that ever sound good. We had a couple of late night "coffee's" and was pulling on this thing for fun and joking around, and sure enough there were fresh tracks on the beach the next day.
 
I have used the can and string method,but I now use only my mouth and my hands as a megaphone.It may not be overly loud,but it has worked well enough to call in several bulls over the years.
 
Coffie Can, bootlace is seriously all you need. I usally just make the sounds with mouth/hands alone. Usally works pretty good also.
 
I took a long rubber highway cone/pylon and cut the base and tip off it.

Can beat the crap out of it all day and it never hurts and I've even had some answers from it.:D

I've also seen some guys carring those long (4') horns you get at hockey games. They are about 4-6"in diameter at the noise end and they have had great success with those.
 
If a moose is on the run, I've found that about 80% of the time if you make a grunt (just mouth/hands) it will stop and look back at you. Even after a missed shot (if it's a "New" moose).
 
Maybe telling this story will come back to haunt me, but here goes anyway:
A close relative who would wish to remain unknown was once heaving his guts out after a night of overindulgence. After about the second or third mighty gagging sound a huge bull came thundering out of a thicket and ran straight toward him. The guy overcame his nausea long enough to drop the moose, and then went back to a few minutes of extreme discomfort.
He learned well from this event, and has since used the technique successfully many times.:)
 
rodagra said:
Maybe telling this story will come back to haunt me, but here goes anyway:
A close relative who would wish to remain unknown was once heaving his guts out after a night of overindulgence. After about the second or third mighty gagging sound a huge bull came thundering out of a thicket and ran straight toward him. The guy overcame his nausea long enough to drop the moose, and then went back to a few minutes of extreme discomfort.
He learned well from this event, and has since used the technique successfully many times.:)
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That's frickin' funny! Lol!
 
rodagra said:
Maybe telling this story will come back to haunt me, but here goes anyway:
A close relative who would wish to remain unknown was once heaving his guts out after a night of overindulgence. After about the second or third mighty gagging sound a huge bull came thundering out of a thicket and ran straight toward him. The guy overcame his nausea long enough to drop the moose, and then went back to a few minutes of extreme discomfort.
He learned well from this event, and has since used the technique successfully many times.:)
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Ha,ha :D

That is a good story.

Never works for me though.....:confused:
 
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