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

rat a tat crat?

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.

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!

Dan

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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

You guys should burn the remains of that barn to get rid of the vermin.

Rats might go after the nests of game birds to get at the eggs. Cats will go after the nests, the young hatchlings, and the adult game birds.

It might be good to have shotguns handy when you do burn it. The vermin will make a run for the fields or the club house.

As a varmint call for cats you ought to do well enough with "Here Kitty, kitty, kitty! Tuna! Tuuuuuna!"

Regards
Marterius

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.

P.O.T.K.B.!!!I hope you're planning on sitting up-wind on that porch Ned!!!Have fun!!Clay

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.

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

Derf you are an absolute genius!

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That's tough in Maryland and some other places as it is sometimes difficult to determine which way the wind is blowing.

'Tis an ill wind that blows no good.

Dan

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Just turn on an electric canopener!!! It works great for my inside and outside cats!

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

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Originally posted by N. S. Sherlock:
Derf you are an absolute genius!

I have my moments of semi-lucidness! derf

Clay you got me on a "cannot find". Our wind here generally blows one way, most of the time.

Ned,,at Ft.Meade the wind regularly blows in a clockwise rotation around the range,,wierd as hell Clay

At least it isn't The Divine Wind there in Ft. Meade.

Dan

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Nothing divine about it there Dan,,just one mother fuc$%^, to read when it is blowing,,,Clay http://www.paperandpoints.com

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Originally posted by gas57:
Just turn on an electric canopener!!! It works great for my inside and outside cats!

Or there is always the sardine in distress. Perhaps one of the bird in distress like a Jay or Flicker may work.