Other animals coming to your calls

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So went out to do a bit of scouting for spring bear season when I found some big cat tracks and decided to try some calling for the hell of it. All I had was Quaker boy choppers call that I happened to have with me. So I'm calling away looking into a field that goes up a fairly steep cut block after about 10 minutes it sounds like the forest is falling down . By now my heart is pumping 80000 mph and i got my 30-06 ready to go thinking i got a big kitty coming and it isn't Steve French .next thing I know I'm staring at a cow moose about 20 yards away from me try to figure out where I was. Pretty unexpected encounter but got my heart pumping none the less. Anyone else get unintended guest coming to their calls?
 
I called a p!$$ed off Loon with a double Reed duck call one time. It would get right up on the water wings flapping. it would call back too. Same place I had a snipe take a liking to me set up. It Kept taunting my dog.
 
I often get hawks coming to check out my distressed rabbit decoy when I am out looking for coyotes. Also had a coyote walk out of the bush 20 feet from where I was sitting hunting turkeys and walked right in front of me without him busting me. I should have let him have the load of #5's as I didn't get the turkey that day anyways.
 
I have been predator hunting for 35+ years... in the areas I hunt you can't be too sure what is going to come in... I have called in the following (sometimes intentionally sometimes not); Black bears, wolves, coyotes, fox, lynx, fisher, marten, weasel, coons, skunks, various hawks and owls, turkey vultures, crows, ravens, and a couple really ticked off whitetail does... this is with predator calls... with species appropriate calls I have also called in... whitetail bucks and does, cow and bull moose, black bears, turkeys, various species of song birds (for photography)... I'm probably forgetting a few... I have always been fascinated by calling animals in close and have been doing it since I was twelve or so.
 
So far I have had both grizzly and black bears come to both calf moose calls and fawn in distress,I only wish Foxpro would digitalise the moose calls,those I do by mouth.The fawn in distress has also brought in wolves,coyotes,ravens,magpies,hawks and lots of pissed off mule deer,sometimes 30-40 a day.No suprise there I hunt mule deer winter ranges for coyotes,theres always lots of dogs in the area. Mur
 
I called in a golden retriever this winter while I was sitting about 200 yards from a dead cow doing coyote howls. he came charging in to my coyote decoy full tilt and stopped 5 feet from it when he seen me and took off back to the farm LOL. I thought it was a huge coyote for a second.
 
I've called in owls, martens, a couple of lynx, and some horses.

Was set up blowing the call and I heard something big and moving fast coming behind me. Out pop 3 horses about 20 yards away. Scared the #### out of me!
 
Fisher came in on a DST Rabbit and another time I called in the Farmer with sleep in his eyes and a shotgun in his hand, as he said "The Old Lady " went nuts and got me up to go see what hell was suffering !
 
Had wolves come in on buck rattles in Lodge Pole & a cow moose check me out on my KTM on a trail near Alder Flats. But I had heard of moose coming in to check out anything that sounded like a chain saw before. It's just that this one didn't leave!...
 
One of the first things I see coming in to a dying rabbit call is the chickadee. They seem to know what a free meal sounds like.
 
My fishing buddy and I were at our Lake X fishing one sunny afternoon and he got me
talking about hunting. He never did the sport but loves the fishing part.
Then asking about moose. I did a series of moose grunts and not too long afterwards
we heard some commotion in the bush. A bit of water splashing and branches rustling
along with snapping of brush. He figured it was a beaver. Nope, came my reply. A
short time later a moose came out of the bush and stopped on shore and watched
us for a bit. He thought that was the coolest chit ever.
 
On several duck hunting occasions at the edges of large ponds coyotes would come in on a trot to the duck call. I waited until they were within shotgun shooting range and then they died of steel poison. Coyotes in Southern Alberta are over populated and are nest robbers and kill many migratory and upland birds.
 
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