I'm not sure where to put this, so I'll just put it here and hope for the best.

Do any of you have any experience with, or have any reviews on this type of call:

http://www.basspro.com/servlet/catalog.TextId?hvarTextI...&cmCat=SearchResults

I picked one up at Bass Pro in Savannah, GA this weekend on my way back from vacation and I'm probably going to try it out Saturday.

I got a few different cards for it:

Bobcat (which includes housecat in distress)
Crow
Deer (2 different deer cards)
Coyote (2 different coyote cards)

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Have any of you used this, or a similar product for coyote, bobcat, or deer with good results?

Any advice, tips or pointers? I've never actively "predator" hunted before, so any tips on bagging a trophy bobcat to go on the wall?

I don't have any experience with that caller or killing a bobcat over one. But on the club lease I belong to of roughly 1200 acres, one or two bobcats are killed each year. All the kills for ten years have happened either at daybreak or dusk within 80 yards of a large flowing creek. This years cat was 38 pounds in weight. Good luck.

I've been using electronic varmit calls for some time now and have had good success with them. To really scope them out go to predatormasters.com, those guys live with them

Well, I took that new call down to the woods today.

I got to my stand got set up just before sun-up, and started cranking with the deer sounds on it.

A little later on, 3 does break through the clearing about 200 yards up at a light trot.

We won't talk about what happened there, but let's just say I squeezed the trigger on my .300 and all 3 deer bolted, uninjured across the clearing and into the woods ... it surprised the *(&@ out of me too No excuses, I just dunno what happened.

After that I was pretty bummed so I went back home, took my rifle and make sure the scope was still true ... (it was) ...

Then, this afternoon I go back out towards late afternoon, get set back up in my tree-stand, and start calling a deer with that call thing.

After 30 - 45 minutes, I still don't have any deer, but I did get a very nice sized coyote that was homing in on me. I homed in on him too ... with 180 grains of 300 mag Winchester Ballistic Silvertip.

Nice shootage on the second time around...ya got a woodpecker call in that thing? If so try it...unless ya got a wooden leg.

Dan

Pres., TYHC

http://www.WellShiver.MeTimbers!

No woodpecker on the chips I have, but I do have a meadowlark, a "bird" in distress, and a wounded chicken on some cards.

Other general type stuff on the predator calls:

Wounded goat
Wounded fawn bleating
Wounded/lost housecat
Wounded rodent
Baby rabbit - wounded
Juvenile rabbit - wounded
Adult rabbit - wounded

Bobcat in heat
Coyote "calling for help"
Coyote and fox fighting

etc.

The bird calls are sort of fun to listen to. My wife didn't understand why I was grinning so much when listening to the wounded animal sounds at home, she said I was a little weird.

I told her I was just imagining the sound-room where they recorded all this and the technician walks in with a few rabbits, maybe a housecat, a blowtorch, a few pair of pliers, and a microphone.

These things sure make some blood-curdling screams. It almost brings a tear to your eye listening to it if I was grinning so much waiting on Mr. Coyote to drop by and check it out.

I have the FoxPro FX3 and you can load 32 sounds of your choice! Lookout varmints on the ranch!

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Bobcat in heat

Not wantin' to Hi-Jack or nothin', but I used to be married to this bitch woman.
Like Roy useta sing,"Thank God and Greyhound she's gone.

I built a home made predator call with the help of the guys over a PredatorMasters.com, Mp3 player and amp, with a Nady 351 mic as the remote. Loaded some dying rat sounds off the net, borrowed the neighbor kids remote controlled truck yesterday, loaded my caller in the back and trolled it around the neighborhood. Have named the rig the Pied Piper of Thornfield Drive. This is too easy. I am sure the survivors will wise up shortly, but right now.....

Worriedman--you may be our "manna from heaven" with that contraption, er, invention. Sure could use one at my house. Plus, was at my son's visiting and he had asked me to borrow my live trap as his new neighbors have begun to feed the strays and now the neighborhood is getting to be a "target rich environment." Unfortunately, my son has a character flaw, he won't shoot the cats or take them for swimming lessons after he traps them. Guess I'll buy him a bottle of skunk scent.

Skunk scent is particularly effective at keeping cats at their owner's digs if ye said cat has current tags and you dose it liberally upon liberation. I once heard a woman at my church telling her pew partner that she didn't let her little "yarnball" out anymore after it tangled with a skunk . Skunk my *ss, it was old ned, training cat owners again.