Jackrabbit distress in the east

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cashton

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I live in WV and we don't have any jackrabbits. I have a Lomans hand call that has a jackrabbit and cottontail distress. Will I get any response by using the jackrabbit call in my area? Maybe something coming in just to see what in the heck is that making all the noise? I have used the cottontail and by the way things are going, I am quite the expert at calling in birds. But it is encouraging because I read that if you get birds, your doing okay, just need to move to were the fox/coyotes are. Thanks for any help.
-Chad
 
Use it, theres no difference in jackrabbit, or cottontail or fawn, except the pitch. Jacks ar a little deeper than cottontails. Ive called plenty of eastern foxes with jackrabbits. Jacks also sound more like fawns. Just like peopole, animals have different pitches to their voices. A bigger cottontail would sound deeper thana young jack. its all relative. Dan
 
I agree with Big Dan and Greenside,I don't think a coyote is thinking of a specific species of animal when it hears a distress sound,more than likely it just equates the distress sound to a food source,I'm guessing it is not until it actually sees the prey species that it knows what type of animal it is.Whether it be a jackrabbit,cottontail or .22-250
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Everything you guys have said makes sense. I was just concerned that introducing a sound that probably has not been heard in the area would maybe set off an alarm to the animal. Anyways, I will give it a try sometime. Thanks for the quick responces.
-Chad
 
Originally posted by cashton:
... I was just concerned that introducing a sound that probably has not been heard in the area would maybe set off an alarm to the animal. ...
-Chad
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Chad...
That is probably about the main reason that I (and many others like me) make custom predator calls - to get a completely new sound the predators may not have heard before.

When you live where predators get "over-called" by every store bought brand of call that is sold in the area, they tend to get real call shy to those mass produced cloned voices. IOW, they learn the exact sounds of a given brand/model of call and usually will not come in to them. Technique can fool some of them even with these calls, but a totally new sound can often bring these call-wise bad boys into your set at a dead run. Besides constantly trying to improve the tuning, I search the world for woods that add tonal qualities to my calls as well. They work where I hunt, and it is one of those grossly over-called areas.

Bottom line, try that Lohman Jack out on your locals - just might stir up some great opportunities for you.
 
hi guys Well you think a jack rabbit is bad in WV, Well I have gone to the extreme, I offered to have my wife babby sit her new born niece, Well I taped her fussy fit.
IT WORKS REALLY WORKS, that little baby girl
wimper, (NO CHILDREN WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS TAPE) So try it, follow your kids with a tape player tonight, Her daddy loves the calling sound and the kritters do to, Happy huntin PA
 
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