What Predator Call are you using?

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Done a little research on this now. Looking to help the deer pop survive in my fav hunting area by taking out some coyotes that are having a smorg at their expense. I don't want this thread to turn into a Mother Nature meddling thing.
I've read up on and watched some videos on the Foxpro series and was impressed with what I saw. Any out there have any experience with these as there is no substitute for experience. It seems the units with the greater remote range seem most effective. Fact or fiction users? Most of the YouTube vids that had the units with the shiggly wiggly thingy on a stick were very effective. Same Q.

What are you using? What do you like about it? What don't you like about it or wish you could change?

Thanks for your input,
Jim
 
Im using the FoxPro Shockwave..by far the best call I have ever used. I love the directional speaker ability, volume is very loud and crisp,,great for my prairie hunting. Remote is the best available and the features are endless. Fusion has really changed the game for me and can go into heavy called area and create completely new sounds.
Downside is the price...but I can make that in a few days with fur so it really didn't bother me. Another downside is you need to invest in quality rechargeables and a very good charger.
What your seeing is a decoy, I have one and in my experience they really don't do that much. Guys get them to bring in hung up dogs but I have found that most hung up coyotes will either not come in at all to anything or use a pup distress. Decoys usually are extra weight and suck up battery juice. This is just from my experience.

I also have have a whole lot of hand calls and don't use them much anymore except backup.

 
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I use the FoxPro Hellfire. It's a great caller. I considered the Praire Blaster, but cost and battery life made me opt for the Hellfire. I find my Black Jack decoy works pretty well and has enticed some reluctant predators into gun range. As with almost everything, you get what you pay for.
 
I got me a whole pile of them fancy dancy mouth calls. Cheeper than electronic, the batteries never die, way more portability and the best part is with a little bit of practice they actually sound like the animals im trying to mimic! If you want the real deal get mouth calls but if your fine playing the same echoy fake sounding crap that every tom #### and harry is playing out of the truck window go ahead. i hear foxpro makes loud bunny noises
 
Yotarunner said:
I got me a whole pile of them fancy dancy mouth calls. Cheeper than electronic, the batteries never die, way more portability and the best part is with a little bit of practice they actually sound like the animals im trying to mimic! If you want the real deal get mouth calls but if your fine playing the same echoy fake sounding crap that every tom #### and harry is playing out of the truck window go ahead. i hear foxpro makes loud bunny noises
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Plenty of guys Im meeting at the NAFA drop offs are dropping a 100 plus coyotes a year using an e-caller and most only use the handcall as a back up. Not bad for an "echoy fake loud bunny noise".
 
Yotarunner said:
I got me a whole pile of them fancy dancy mouth calls. Cheeper than electronic, the batteries never die, way more portability and the best part is with a little bit of practice they actually sound like the animals im trying to mimic! If you want the real deal get mouth calls but if your fine playing the same echoy fake sounding crap that every tom #### and harry is playing out of the truck window go ahead. i hear foxpro makes loud bunny noises
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Ask the pro's what they are using. My hellfire has gotten me 40+ coyotes in the last two years. Seems to work fine for me.
 
muckwa said:
Ask the pro's what they are using. My hellfire has gotten me 40+ coyotes in the last two years. Seems to work fine for me.
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sorry guys apparently my writing is bad. that was meant to be a quite sarcastic comment. i have seen so many people on forums these days asking the exact same question and rather than doing the typical "i like foxpro because..." answer i figured i would switch it up a bit. i actually have E calls myself but prefer to use them in consort with hand calls rather than as a stand alone unit.
 
I started with a FoxPro Spit fire, and it was a great call, but I found the remote limited the range. I upgrade to the shockwave and absolutely love it. I haven't looked at the other models, but having the ability to play 2 calls simultaneously (foxfusion) has worked flawlessly. screaming jack overlayed with coyote pup in distress has yielded a pile a dogs. I would definitely buy another one
 
Another shockwave user here. Spend the extra $100 for the lithium battery pack. It's worth it not to have to worry about dead batteries. I can get 5 days of use before the meter reads half and I recharge it. Fusion is fantastic. Like Scott was saying it makes a huge difference. Too many guys buy a $20 rabbit distress call and go and blow it like they seen on YouTube. Doesn't take long before they get smart and won't have nothing to do with rabbit anything. Yea they cost a retarded amount of money for a couple speakers and remote but if you paid $20 a hand call and times that by the 160 sounds I have loaded in mine you are still ahead with electronics. Killed Somewhere between 150 and 200 so far this winter so they must work sometimes.
 
Now older FoxPro FX3 and their jack in the box decoy.

I always carry mouth calls for backup my favorite is a the orange coloured Primus KiYi.
 
I have the foxpro wildfire which works really well for a 200 dollar unit.
I also use the orange ruffi dawg hand call which has called
A lot of yotes in.

This year i sourced a TOA paging speaker and connected a 3.5 jack
To it and use it as the external speaker on the wildfire.
This thing is loud now.
these TOA paging speakers are what some foxpro callers are built around

The wildfire runs on 4AA batteries and with the external speaker
Has lasted over 2 days of calling....6-8 stands a day at 20 minutes stands
 
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