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For someone who wants to get into mouth-calling for predators, what manufactures would you guys recommend?
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The Haydel Brand Government Hunter has always worked very well for me for many years. https://www.presleysoutdoors.com/government-hunt-cottontail-cal/
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
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Kerry Carver, Rick Robins, Ed Sceery
After the first shot the rest are just noise.
Make mine a Minaska
Heaven has walls and rules, H-ll has open borders
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Tally Ho is probably my favorite and a Crit’R Call is usually with me too. Verminator Tweety is a good one too.
Anyone remember Krusty and know if he is still around? He made the Krusty Krier and I wish I would’ve picked up a few more.
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Burnham brothers S2 and S4 have really brought them in for me. A sqeaker from a dog toy can be awesome also. I still use a Weems wild call from way back.
Dog I rescued in January
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There is a Tallyho stuffed inside a Bill Austin howler in my shirt pocket, right next to the copenhagen, from mid Oct to mid Feb..... Sometimes I'll change it up with a Crittrcall or PeeWee. Once in a while I'll take the handmade horn distress call that mtcurman made me.
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I've always been fond of the old Circe P1 long range rabbit. Good, course, gravely rabbit sound. More than a few eastern Washington coyotes succumbed to my old P1.
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Chronographs, bore scopes and pattern boards have broke a lot of hearts.
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Kerry Carver Swift call for a closed reed.
Rick Robins makes a nice coaxer.
CritRCall peewee or one of Kerry's open reeds. Or just buy his strictly business set. Great deal for the $$$ and has everything you need while sounding great.
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I always liked that call, excepting that it seemed to load up with spit and freeze in cold weather faster than any call I used. Lot of solid choices listed by good experienced hunters here and some old favorites of mine as well. One call I wouldn't be without is the Sceery AP-6 bite call. I have called a hell of a lot of critters with the AP-6.
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I've had good luck with Sceery Cottontail, though theres lots of other good ones on the market.
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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Most of the hand calls will call coyotes in the right hands. My criteria for selecting a hand call is easy blowing and ease of manipulating the sound coming out of it. Metal reeds are a pain in the winter. Having suffered from asthma most of my life a very easy calling call was a must. I've grown out of my asthma when I hit the mid 60's so mouth calls are more fun to use now.
After the first shot the rest are just noise.
Make mine a Minaska
Heaven has walls and rules, H-ll has open borders
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I use a Sceery AP-6, a Primos Jackrabbit an old Weems cottontail, and an old Faulks the most.
I usually start each stand with the Sceery, but if nothing shows, I'll switch calls. Sometimes, a particular coyote wants to hear a wood barrel call, sometimes a plastic, and sometimes a metal reed.
One day, calling from a small rise overlooking a large, sage brush flat, nothing showed up using the Sceery. I switched over to the Faulks (wood barrel), and a coyote stands up about 300yds out, and starts trotting in. I know that coyote heard the Sceery, but, for whatever reason, wasn't interested until I lit up the Faulks.
I find coyotes to be like most anything I call, ducks, elk, turkeys, in that a slightly different sound/tone is needed to bring them in.
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Kerry Carver calls are going to solve most of your problems. They have always served me well and I blow them all the time October to April.
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The most common of them all, Sceery, has been pretty good for me in mild weather. The reed for sure will freeze up when it gets cold but they're easy to change out when they crack. Ups and downs, I guess.
mtcurman made me an open reed distress and a howler which work well too, though I rarely take the open distress call anymore. For relatively inexperienced people (like myself, to an extent), the closed reed distress calls like Sceery work pretty well.
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Got an old Crit'R call from early 80's, a squeaker, Syco Tweety, and Tweety on the lanyard.
Used to have an old Burnham Brothers fox call from the 70's too but that got lost.
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I have a bag of about 30 calls but have relied on Faulks the most to call, bear, cougar, fox, coyote, and Bobcat. For almost 40 years.
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It seems mouth calls are like knives, the perfect one is always the next one you try… I have a few of both laying around.
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Closed reed calls are much easier to use for a new guy and smokers, and I took a novice on our monthly club hunts for years. I would sit 20 or so yards from the new guy, and blow a series, then have him try and imitate me. Amazing the success, and often we would both blow at the same time.
I would hand them a Very coarse sounding hand call. There are three types that just plain work for a new guy:
Weems Wild call Duo Tone
Johnny Stewart PC 1
Lohman Variable short and long range, and I leave it set on long range for a very coarse gravely sound, and everyone should have one of these: https://www.ebay.com/itm/392484147483?hash=item5b61e0d11b:g:9NEAAOSwn0Bdp4kL
More experienced callers can use the Tally ho, Tweety and similar calls.
I never leave home with out a Bill Austin Female invitation Howler, you had better know what you are doing when you start blowing a howler or you will ruin your chances of seeing anything..
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