Help with specific type of predator call

stevefossimages

stevefossimages

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Hey all:

New to this board. Looks good here.

I used to hunt fox and coyote extensively in North Dakota back in the late 70s, when there was money in it.

Full camo, screaming rabbitt call, Ruger M77 22-250.

I don't hunt predators any longer, except with the camera. I'm looking for a type of air-driven screaming rabbitt call, and I've searched all over online and in stores with no success. You did not blow through this call, but squeezed a ribbed rubber tube that forced air through it. Great loud scream, no worries about ice up from saliva. I'm looking for any info on who might sell this style of call. Not the squeeze bulb mouse squeak, which I already have and is great at short range.

On another matter, I'm photographing in the BWCAW and national forests around Ely. So I expect all predators of the weasel family to come in, potentially, to a rabbitt/mouse squeak call. Canids would include red fox, coyote and wolf. Felines include bobcat, lynx and mountain lion. So my next question is this: In your opinion, is a screaming rabbitt call the best option, or should I also maybe pick up a fawn bleat call. I'm wondering if the larger predators especially wouldn't be more interested in the fawn bleat.

Yes, you can doubt the sanity of someone who goes out into the wilderness alone and announces that he sounds just like dinner to wolves and mountain lions. But humor me, guys. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
You can get surprising results with a bird in distress call on most predators especially the cats. I've never thought that a predator actually thinks about what is in distress. Over the years many many others have said the very same thing. To a predator a distress sound is a distress sound. I honestly don't see much diference between the sound mand by a fawn in distressed or a Jack rabbit in distress. The Fawn has a bit longer and maybe slightly lower sound, but all in all a fawn distress sond can easily be made on a Jack rabbit or a course low volume sounding call.

Have you noticed that there are more and more call manufacturers putting high, medium low or course on their calls to describe their sound and fewer are actually using the traditional cottontail, jack rabbit, rodent or mouse discription on their calls? I think boards like this one have talked people into thinking of distress sounds less specificly because most all animals make very similar distress screams.
 
your looking for the scotch squeeze call. see them on ebay there is a couple right now. look under game call's predator call's. here is a site that sell's a lot of call's allpredator call's Randy Anderson has a new call look's like it too. good luck. Rick


http://www.allpredatorcalls.com/
 
Here is an old Scotch call that my grandad used to use with his old Springfield .222.
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Trashcan
 
Just saw an ad in the December Predator Xtreme, that shows Primos is bringing this style of call back. Its called the Dog Catcher.
Take care !!
montalaska
 
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