My hunt club leases five tracts of land for hunting in Halifax County, but only one has a dwelling on it. The old house is now our clubhouse and was once a sharecropper's 4-room house. It is not in good repair, without water or plumbing, although it does have electricity. As the younger fellows in the club mostly hang around and eat and drink beer and various liquors when not hunting, it is often trashy with chicken bones and pork scraps in the yard from constant barbecues. The club's few geezers don't worry about such things. We (members) shot down the old barn next to the house over the years using it as a short range backstop and its now a ten foot tall pile of lumber and full of rats, snakes, and now cats. Yes, cats! At my club! What a shame! I was out there on tract 4 last week trying again for a deer and I saw two cats slinking about the barn wreck as I drove up to the clubhouse. I went to hunt after eating a big bowl of jalapeno chili and some vienna sausages and crackers for lunch. About an hour before dark the rain drove me back to the clubhouse from old lucky treestand # 17, because it does not have a top. I thought I might as well sit on the porch for a bit with my mouse squeaker and my .25-20 and try for a cat. Tenderly I squeaked and whined like a hurt mouse. Nothing, nothing,except the musical tinkle of the drizzle. Pretty soon I began to suffer from terrible chaotic rumblings in my gut as I sat under the tin roof on the porch seeking a cat. Chili! I leaned a bit to allow some searing gas to escape harmlessly, but suddenly there was a loudly resounding multiple bursting of gas escaping, finishing with a rip sounding of full auto from a 20 rounder. Almost instantly, three black and white cats emerged from the barn ruins and sat watching me. Well, I got two with my first two shots, but another rip of full auto made me miss and allowed the third to escape. I plan to contact a famous name maker of calls to start development on a new series of varmint calls for cats. Anybody got a catchy call name for me to use? N.S. Sherlock
"Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you" G. ned ludd
Posts: 2374 | Location: Eastern North Carolina | Registered: 27 August 2003
I think you may be too late on thecall idea though.
I prefer the natural methods to electronic imitations anyway, I think maybe you should consider your successful hunt and realize as I do that no machine can reproduce that timbre and metre.
There is nothing that cannot be accomplished with brute force and ignorance
Posts: 145 | Location: Midwest | Registered: 14 October 2004
Ned, natural emissions are always superior to recordings...eat more chili! Call it the 'Fartenzeihammer Cratzenbuster'. It'll work well in tandem with the AR crat forum mission specific wildcrat cartridge we designed last year!
Ned,,nuth'in disrespectfull or mean here but,,,are you shure it was the sound and not the smell? It might be a simple matter of tossing some of that chilli,vienna sausage,and crackers in a blender then letting it percolate a day or two before bottling it up,,and save you from going through that experience again. Maby name it Ned's #1 shure lure,,or something like that,,Kill'em all! Clay
Posts: 2119 | Location: woodbine,md,U.S.A | Registered: 14 January 2002
Thanks guys, you have been a great help especially that fellow Hughjass with the electronic remote control calling device. I'm going to get one to see if it can be modified for other uses. First I want to duplicate the events and record the cat call sounds as they really happened. Then I'm going to get them to a studio and made into tapes, cds, sound cards, everything possible. Write a book, script a video, set up merchandising deals, sell the recipes, license out the use of the products (except for my friends and supporters here who get some for free). Mart had a great idea on the tuna based version, and Clay about the #1 jalapeno chili cat lure. I might even make a Maryland or WV version of the chili. I will be needing field testers on the new line of canned chili in case anyone wants to volunteer, er, get a small payment for testing it out. I'd better keep the old barn though, its nice to sit on the clubhouse porch in the summer and shoot rats, have a a cold beer, hope for a cat.
"Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you" G. ned ludd
Posts: 2374 | Location: Eastern North Carolina | Registered: 27 August 2003
A skilled hunter (or chili fan/beer drinker for that matter) always takes a stand considering the wind direction and velocity. That's tough in Maryland and some other places as it is sometimes difficult to determine which way the wind is blowing.
"Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you" G. ned ludd
Posts: 2374 | Location: Eastern North Carolina | Registered: 27 August 2003
On the topic of the electronic caller, might I suggest that you record the calls of a crat in heat! Once ovulation starts the bloody WILL NOT shut up and an hour long recording is very posible. The results would be an extreme shortage of old Toms pretty danged quick. derf
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Posts: 3450 | Location: Aldergrove,BC,Canada | Registered: 22 February 2003
N.S. about that Ned,,was on the 600yd. line,,,the 300 flag was going full left,,the 600 was going full right,,,,I aimed to the post of the target holder on the left,,and pulled bulls on my target,,Clay http://www.mousegunhell.com
Posts: 2119 | Location: woodbine,md,U.S.A | Registered: 14 January 2002
Call it the 'Fartenzeihammer Cratzenbuster'. It'll work well in tandem with the AR crat forum mission specific wildcrat cartridge we designed last year! 
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Ned,,at Ft.Meade the wind regularly blows in a clockwise rotation around the range,,wierd as hell Clay
Perhaps one of the bird in distress like a Jay or Flicker may work.
