spotstalkshoot I agree with you. The last year or two I have not been doing a lot of daytime calling but have been doing a bunch at night. For sure I have been seeing the hand calls being very productive. Normally I never even get to my louder mouth calls because I get a response to my softer quieter ones before I ever work up the scale to loud.
I have not kept track but I would bet that just a squeaker or soft/medium cottontail has accounted for 50% of what I have called in. Out of the other 50% the vast majority of that have responded to a very sharp, high pitch pup distress done on a smaller open reed distress tone board. Something similar to a SS1, Bunny Bomb, or the small Carver distress. Killer sounds IMO.
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