Does anyone know where I can buy a new re-chargeable battery for my very old Johnny Stewart MS 512 game caller? Thank you.

My battery died too after many many years of use. Johnny Stewart sells them for about $40 and I intend to look for an alternative source.

I am still thinking that it might be better to buy one of the newer Johnny Stewart callers for another $90-$100 and get something a lot lighter in weight.

If you do a search for the Panasonic (or whatever other battery) model number that was in your caller, you will find that there are replaceables for as little as $10 plus shipping. These are 6V batteries, and if your 512 was set up like mine, there are two of the batteries stuck together with double-sided tape, and a jumper soldered between the negative post of one battery and the positive of the other.
I bought a re-chargeable 12V last weekend at Gander Mountain, and it won't fit inside the case. So I am going to have to buy one of the other ones that is designed to fit the case...

And dmullen is right: if you go with an exact replica, it is going to run you $40 plus shipping. I am going to try to save about half that amount...

Check out www.digikey.com

If you run into a dead-end.....give me a holler.

Hope this helps,

Kevin

If I can get one for about half price, I may do it and then sell my caller. One of those newer ones looks like it would be very light.

Roger:

You might try Batteries Plus, if they don't stock it they can look it up and will order it for you. I am confident your 512 is 12 volt. and you can find many gel cell nickle metal hydrate batteries.
Longshot