The old coffee can and string moose call trick.

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So who has used this technique?

long string tied to inside of the coffee can, wet string, and pull string. makes a moosey ish noise.

I have heard about it. Never had the opportunity to try it. Does it work?
 
I learned how to call moose from this gentlemans gracious video's: http://www.moosecaller.ca/index.php

A little practice and you'll sound exactly like a moose, unlike so many I see on youtube who IMO manage to call in a lovestruck moose Despite sounding like a wounded cat. cp:

Now this will sound stupid, but with some practice you'll find one day your wife tells you to stop and seems agitated. Took some prompting to get an answer.
Do it right and it'll make her wet, I kid you not.

Now, 'scuse me while I puff out my chest. :D
 
I use a one-gallon ketch-up can wrapped in electricians tape and small diameter starter rope--like off a small outboard.
It imitates a bulls grunt -- not the cow call. Its hard to get the deep resonance of a bulls grunt with just your voice.
That said--it really is easy to call moose. When they are ready they will come to just about any racket--including a bulldozder.
When they ain't--well sometimes the majic works and sometimes it doesn't.
 
Yes, when moose are in the proper mood, they will come to almost any noise. I once very quietly eased my way a long a river flat, no moose. I wasn't calling, because it was only the first or second of September. Suddenly I realized I was supposed to be working very soon, so took off through the bush, paying no attention to being quiet. Heard the grunts, stopped, a moose came up to me, 35 yard shot.
The moose calling on some of the hunting shows on tv is pathetic. Still, a moose will come, in spite of the poor calling.
The string, heavy string like shoe lace and the tin can is great, for immitating the bull's grunt. Unless one hits the tin can a wrong way and a wary old bull will be gone, most likely without you even knowing he was there.
I have been very successful with just my mouth making the call. Your cupped hands help, but a birchbark horn I made and used for years, is far supperior to just cupped hands.
I learned to moose call by listening to the moose, not by immitating someone elses efforts, whether recorded, or not.
A good immitation of the cow call can be extremely effective. When I have been practicing, with no intention to shoot a moose, I sometimes have had trouble getting rid of the moose that would come to my call! A young bull doesn't want to take no for an answer.
 
It does work, flat lace wet with water squeeze gently and slide your thumb and finger down the string, sounds better (less tinny) with some cloth in the can
 
I have found a few of them while trout fishing. Older ones around here were made with metal tobacco tins.
 
I've used it as an initial call, then switch to birch bark. Works good with leather instead of string as well. I've always been leery of using it when they're up close though, always figured an older bull would get blown off.
It's hard to find a coffee can out of metal in the last few years, most have cardboard sides. Costco still sells the MJB brand that's all metal.
 
Ok this is not about the can and string thing but, when cow calling, have any of you guys ever heard a cow moose make the really high-pitched whining sound? It gets deeper and lower and transitions into the sound I hear most guys make when cow calling. I haven't heard a lot of cows call but one time it was windy and we could hear her making the low moan/bellow/bawling sound, and when the wind stopped briefly i heard the nasal eeeeeeyyyooooowww part at the beginning.
Just curious why I never hear anyone do this.
 
We have a bunch of them around camp the best sounding one is a tall Baccardi rum can, with a leather lace in the bottom.
We wet the lace in water, then grip and give a sharp tug. The leather sliding through your fingers makes a loud deep moose call close to a bulls grunt.

We use the call in the evening, to call moose for the following day. Sound carries further at night, when there is less competition from other bush noise.
 
bearkilr said:
I've used it as an initial call, then switch to birch bark. Works good with leather instead of string as well. I've always been leery of using it when they're up close though, always figured an older bull would get blown off.
It's hard to find a coffee can out of metal in the last few years, most have cardboard sides. Costco still sells the MJB brand that's all metal.
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Yes someone mentioned tobbaco tins,II looked and my yellow colored

Prince Albert cans are made of Allum!

Bob
 
My dad in law used his MJB coffee can setup last year when I wasn't expecting it. I dunno about attracting moose, but it scared the S%*t out of me!!!
 
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