Has anyone tried hunting with game callers ?

What are your experiences so far? Any product you would recommend (for hogs)? I am thinking of it to use as a complement to odor baits

I am quite interested in the Cass Creek one http://www.casscreek.com/prod_boar.html but I am not much convinced yet about how realistic those grunts and squeals might be ... from what I can hear from the demo, those sounds seemed quite artificial , but would like some first hand opinion if anyone happened to hear them directly out of the product itself and better if in the field

Thank you all in advance

i have that.. doesn't do a great job... but it also doesn't scare deer/hogs AWAY so it can't be all bad

Please promise me that you will not try to grunt as a pig it if we hunt together someday..

Imagine spending hours and hours in a cold night waiting for a big padrillo and your hunting buddy starts grunting as a hog

L

Sounds good enough, Jeff... at least so as to give it a try,even more considering its unexpensive cost

Hey, L !
I am developing my odor baits' techniques and this game caller seems to be a good complement to use with ... at least so as to see how it performs on wild hogs (another way to satisfy our curiosity and have fun as well)

November will be the month when this game caller and some smoking sticks (smelling like rotten meat) will be tested at the zone of Santa Isabel (rivesides of the Atuel, in western La Pampa, where the last biiiiig tuskers can still be found )

Anxiety is killing me

My hunting buddy smells like a pig...I don't know if that will be of any help

L

Martín: it seems that November will see us all at La Pampa. In my stomping grounds there was a rain of big hogs during June (I was not there of course and a pal got one with tusks measuring 26 centimeters). Regarding baits, some fellows I know used the "beds" from sows in heat....the "padrillos" came like flies to the honey or so they say.
I´m still amazed at Bill´s pictures of that bull moose...at least in La Pampa one can feel confident that no such beast will confuse an Uruguayan with a statue

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Originally posted by Lorenzo:
My hunting buddy smells like a pig...I don't know if that will be of any help

L

I am not so sure ... is he an uruguayan too?
I might get confused about which prey to shoot at

Hey, just kidding !!

Some uruguayans...

Carlos Gardel
Onetti
Canaro
Julio Sosa "El Varón del Tango"
Leguizamo
Mattos Rodriguez (Tango "La Cumparsita")
Alfredo Zitarrosa
El Enzo
Natalia Oreiro
Claudia Fernandez
Mónica Farro
Etc
Etc

So...what you have to say about us...??


L

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Originally posted by nainital:
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I´m still amazed at Bill´s pictures of that bull moose...at least in La Pampa one can feel confident that no such beast will confuse an Uruguayan with a statue

I don't know whether if to admire that bison's realism or that moose "sexual capacity"

quote:

Originally posted by nainital:
Martín: it seems that November will see us all at La Pampa. In my stomping grounds there was a rain of big hogs during June (I was not there of course and a pal got one with tusks measuring 26 centimeters). Regarding baits, some fellows I know used the "beds" from sows in heat....the "padrillos" came like flies to the honey or so they say.
(...)

This will be my first attempt using artificial attractants and masking scents - and will probably use this game caller aswell, which in fact I doubt about its effectiveness if used alone, but I think it will be a good complement if used with odor baits... did I tell you I am fascinated by the social reactions of the hogs ? In fact sometimes I wonder if some attitudes I watched were dictated by intelligent thoughts not mere instincts !!


I am so anxious about trying to cheat these intelligent masters of survival that actually I am not sure if to take my cam or my rifle !!

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Originally posted by Lorenzo:
Some uruguayans...

Carlos Gardel
Onetti
Canaro
Julio Sosa "El Varón del Tango"
Leguizamo
Mattos Rodriguez (Tango "La Cumparsita")
Alfredo Zitarrosa
El Enzo
Natalia Oreiro
Claudia Fernandez
Mónica Farro
Etc
Etc

So...what you have to say about us...??


L

Just one thing: WHERE, HOW and WHY did the became thee great figures they are ?

And for the record, you can add my own grandfather to that list ... my father's father was an uruguayan that had to cross almost swimming the Uruguay River, with nothing more than he was wearing ... and had to start from zero again in Argentina (he was quite an important landowner living in Salto and was obliged to leave Uruguay due to political reasons)... and to him, my country also rewarded his effort with certain prosperity

Perhaps the fact that he spent only some decades in Uruguay before coming to stay in Argentina helped him

Hahaha really ????
So you are "one of us"

I know it !!! I have always thought that you were brighter than the rest of the unfaithful..

L

Well thank you for your kind words, my friend .. but I believe that that small stain is quite insignificant in my genealogical tree, rather washed up after two generations of pure argentinians (as pure as any good argentine, with germans, italians, british, spaniards ancestors - and some other more from other places (like uruguay)

Not meaning to cut in on you guys thread, but from what I have experienced, hogs are not real good at responding or coming into a call.

Javelinas are another matter, especially when in family groups. JMO.

Have any of you used any of the commercially available scents -- hog attractants?

I will try some sort of smoking sticks which smell like rotten meat and will see if to complement them with this mentioned game caller and /or hog urine... will see on the field what might seems to be more convenient and act consequently

I am quite confident about their response ...

Will post the results

Looking forward to your report!

When are you going?

All you guys have to do is go into any dive and go sooooiieee, sooooiieeeee! You'll find your oinker.

I tried that once, and they all ran......

Dude, you didn't wear your John Deere cap and didn't have a big Chaw in yo' mout'.

But I was wearing overalls and my shit-kickers......

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Originally posted by Whitworth:
Looking forward to your report!

When are you going?

By the end of november, four or five days before the full moon