Last week my hunting partner and I went out to call coyotes and came home with a mountain lion. I've heard that a rabbit-in-distress call can bring them in but we sure weren't expecting it. This cat came within 25 yards before we ever saw it. One shot from my partner's 22-250 and it dropped in its tracks. I used an old Herter's predator call to call in a blacktail deer on Kodiak Island a few years ago, but I was still surprised to get this cat.

What have you had come in to your calls?

got dive-bombed by a hawk a couple times last weekend while blowing a rabbit squealer and holding an 870 loaded with BBs. Exercised great restraint, I did.

Redial

Hawks,owls,coyotes,fox,bobcat,deer,woodpeckers, blue jays,crows,house dogs,pet cats,raccoons,
farmers,hunters and one game warden.
If you call they will come!!!!!!!!!

Was surprised by a German Shepherd dog once. Of course he was pretty surprised too!

No - I didn't shoot him, he belonged to the property owner where I was hunting. We all had a good laugh about it.

I think I've about duplicated Gunslinger's list...with the exception of a game warden. However, I'll add ground squirrels! I once sat down next to some ground squirrel's holes and started some soft calling and squeeking. They came out of their holes and got all upset with me.

According to the Burnham brothers in one of their early calling books I read years ago, they claimed to have called up a rattlesnake. But since snakes don't have ears or hear like we do, the incident they account had to be a coincidense.

Bottom line, I wouldn't much be surprised at anything that came to a call. Oh, add cattle to my list...especially cows with calves. Come to think of it, when I used to practice in the house, it worked good on my wife. She would come tell me to get the hell out of the house!

Hello:
I guess if you can call them varmint, this would qualify. I once called up an outfitter, complete with hunter from Pennsylvania, while bugling for Elk!
Griz

I use jackrabitt contail and a coaxer all the time... ill jot a list... its important to note that most of these animals seem to be just curious.
1. coyotes
2.badgers/skunks/raccons
3.Mt lion
4.bobcat
5.rabbits
6.various birds of prey
7.deer mule & whitetail
8.javalina
9.coiti
10.fox
11.pronghorn
12.feral donkey
13.FERAL HORSES!!! VERY DANGERIOUS!!
14. other peoples dogs
15. black bear
16. a 75 year old lady.

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My most interesting one to date was a young bull moose. He, for some unknown reason, took a keen interest in the fawn decoy I was using. After he knocked it off the post he proceded to stand over it for a while. I eventually had to stand up and make myself known in order for him to get the message that it was time to move on.

Mudruck

Many years ago, a friend of mine bought one of the remote, cassette tape-style calls. We took it to Pinon, N.M. and began calling in some thick cedar and pinon. Within about 15 minutes, bear-like noises started emanating through the trees. Visibility was maybe 25 yards in the thick brush, and whatever was making the noise was close. Being that we were armed only with bows, my friend began banging his aluminum arrows on his compound bow. Whatever was making the bear noises quickly left.

MRMD - I have hunted the Pinon area several times. Small world. Once shot a HUGE coyote there. He was equal to a good sized German shepard.

I was shooting p-dogs in Bonita Canyon about 20 miles from my home in Grants, N.M. and got tired of that, went up the road a bit and began using the jackrabbit distress call for coyotes. I was sitting in front of a medium-sized ponderosa pine tree when the hairs on the back of my neck just started standing up. Something was on the hill in back of me, watching me. I heard a deep-throated noise come from the area of blowdown and thought at the time that whatever it was, my little .223 with 50 gr. V-Max loaded to 3,400 fps was not even in the best of times a match for it. I got up making as much noice as I could, walked to my pickup truck, got in and drove home. Got my 7mm Mauser, went back out there and went to the blowdow area. There were a lot of fresh bear tracks around that blowdown, about 6-inches across. I still think I called in a bruin! Tom Purdom