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I just got one and am thinking this would be better used in the spring as opposed to the fall for all types of varmints,am I right and what can I expect to come running when I begin calling here in CO?

lions, tigers and bears, Oh My!......

Ive always called in more coyotes here with a fawn bleat versus rabbit calls.

You will get some does to respond as well.

Bears love em here.

you can use the fawn bleat any time of year with success, and really shouldn't expect more success in the spring than in the fall.
Same reasoning as using snowshoe hare sounds where there are no snowshoe hares to be found.
Or using baby cottontail in the winter when there are no baby cottontails any where to be found.

I've used fawn bleat quite a bit.

I have called coyotes, bears, bobcats and deer with it, enough bears that when I coyote hunt in the mountains I will set up in a meadow instead of the timber. I want to see a bear coming from a long ways.

I lost the Kmeer Deer call last year. I had that call for so long I can't remember, but, maybe 30 years? Always worked well. So, this year, I tried a Flambeau MAD R.I.P. call, and after a half dozen tries with it, I returned it. This call scared the he## out of deer, put them on high alert and then they would run away.

With the Kmeer Deer call, I was used to doe deer, both Mulies and Whitetails, charging in to the call. Fun call.

No telling what might come in when you beat your fawn, and its starts bleating....

You may get some PETA folks with that one.

huntsman22 where are the tigers in Colorado besides those out in Keensburg, Oh My?

there are a few northeast of Kiowa, too...

I am so sure I don't own enough gun to put down any of THOSE cats.

Then you need a heavier bullet

I hear if you beat your fawn in the shower, it muffles the sound somewhat.

Fawn bleat has been a good producer for me, haven't ever hunted in the spring though. Late fall through dead of winter for this guy.

What critters will come to the call you describe? Pert near any predator will come plus many kinds of creatures that will come merely out of curiosity, including humans. Just because they come to the call does not mean that you will see them.

IME the exact sound used to call most critters is the LEAST critical factor in calling success, assuming that the sound is somewhere in the ballpark of reasonable facsimile. The hand calls that I've used that are labeled fawn distress, jack rabbit or hare distress or bear cub bawl/distress are so much alike I don't think it makes any difference. I've got a recorded whitetail fawn bleat that has called coyotes, bobcats, cougars, black bears and I think lynx (can't remember) plus the usual mule deer does, crows, magpies, hawks, owls and assorted other birds.

The right season to use your new call is when you get a chance to go hunting. Use it with confidence.