Anyone mount an external speaker on your truck?

smallblockfuelie

smallblockfuelie

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I was wondering if anyone has mounted an external speaker to their truck? I have bad thoughts often of accidetally driving off at night and leaving the FoxPro unit behind. I was considering mounting the external speaker uder the bed on the frame and running the cord up into my toolbox. That way I could set the FP in the box connected to the external speaker on those nights we are swinging the spotlight.
 
Hi smallblockfuelie,

Yes indeed! It sure helps out in the winter to locate with a blast from the truck to see if anything is out worth freezing over , but then again for some reason I'm always compelled to get out and call just to get cold anyway /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif, Dang! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/angry-smiley-055.gif I love this predator hunting. I just wish I could get out steady! Oh! also have an external mounted in the front grill of my ATV as well, /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif that is a big plus when your trying to locate before you take to foot.

Good hunting!
Dean
vaportrail
 
Funny you mention it, I knew two older guys, that had their trucks outfitted with speakers behind the front grill. They drove the old fire break roads on Ft. Huachuca to do their calling. They claimed the just drove a mile or so between stands, parked, smoked cigs and drank coffee in the cab and let the tape play thru the truck cassette player. Said they killed a lot of predators with their lazy man technique?
 
Many years ago when I lived in Kali, we would hunt the Jawbone area. We had PA speakers mounted under the body of our jeeps. All we would do was to drive the desert roads very slow with the calls going. We popped plenty of yotes, fox and the occassional bobcat.
 
I've never mounted a speaker but, I do have "JC Whitney" motor-driven sirens mounted in the grill of my trucks to use as howlers. They work about as well as anything does to get them to howl.
 
Driving for 'otes works very well.

It is a kind of "sniping/calling hybrid" sort of hunting.

The downside is that many states frown on this. Darnit!

Good ones like Texas don't.

Three 44s
 
I'm not so sure that it is allowed in Texas at all now. I know that legal deer, and major game hunting isn't permitted from a moving vehicle in any county.

Not sure about predators though. We have the good fortune (I think) of having more coyotes, wolves, bobcats, cougars, swampcats, skunks, 'possums, ground squirrels, prairie dogs, and a few foxes than we can say grace over.

Come on down, the economy down here loves your money. Y'hear? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Bill /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
sure smallblock , put it on the front bumper right next to a small running light that shines low and in front of your rig for running and has a switch that has the light come on and off when you turn the key!! also a switch for brake lights!! when you pick up eyes and stop there in no lights to spook the varmits ..
 
On another post I see where LIONHO recommends "My strong suggestion is to use a cone and not a horn-type speaker if you want to be able to reproduce high pitched coaxer sounds." Where could a person purchase a quality speaker of this type for mounting on the front of their truck? Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks
 
i sure have,,we started night hunting in 1965 then i spent some time in the army 65 66 and when i got home and when it turned fall we got serious we put lights on our trucks.we then found some varmint 8 track tapes,and mounted drive in speakers behind the grill. i had a toyota land crusier and my buddy had a ford.we had a blast no one else was doing this at the time.when we first started we only had our cars,and we put the 6 inch aircraft landing lights in the end of a toilet plunger so we didn't have to hold our arms out all the time.we had a switch on the wood handle and lighter plugs. there were more coyotes that would come to the call then. i still go with my son's today,but now we call a lot more in the day.it is a great lifelong sport,too bad people made it so fur prices are down. we still skin and sell them.i would feel guilty leaving them. p.s.radio shack might still have speakers.
 
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