Howdy,
I am a new member so this is my first post.
A couple of months ago, I baught a "Cotton Tail in Distress" call and then several weeks later, I baught a Howler. I am also new to calling coyotes. Have trapped them but am just getting into calling.
Looking at the Howler, it didn't look that hard to make, so I studied how it was built but didn't try to make one.( As a kid, my Uncle showed me how to make whistles from cane reeds.) One morning, I noticed some old timie cloths pin that my wife had left laying on top of the dryer and I saw the mouth-piece it the clothspin. It is one of the one piece kind with a crotch and no spring. I took it to the vice and using a 5/32 drill bit and a hack saw, made a mouth piece from one leg and a wedge to hole the reede from the other. Then I cut a reed from a diet coke can and "wow" that clothes pen was crying like a rabbit in big trouble.
Needless to say, I have make several call in the last few weeks including a cowhorn howler with a deer horn mouth piece. This was mostly LUCK. It howls and makes sounds like a dog being beatten up or run over by a car but not too good at the rabbit cry. I have herd a rabbit cry with its last few breths and a couple of the cloths pen calls do a better job of memicking that sound.
I ran into a local guy who does some gunsmithing and knife making, he also hunts coyotes,he tried one of my clothes pen calls and grinned real big and said that he thought I was getting along OK, not to know what I was doing. That made me feel really good but I am still truly in the dark about a lot of things.
Then, last week, I pulled the noise makers out fo some dog chew toys and looked at how they were made. After a few nights sleeping on them, I made one from a piece of 1/4 inch copper tubing and a reed made from a pop can. With a little playing, it made the sound that I think I really like. B;owing it in a pannic screem, the pitch changes and gets throaty but as the screem gets weaker, it settles down to a dismal cry. Have made several but having trouble reproducing that particular effect. So, I guess I don't know what phisical charisteristic I am trying to reprodece. Still really in the dark.
Anyway, I was excited to find this forum and the "Hand Call" section. The post of making a call from Cow Horn was really insightfull and reaferming. Thanks. I have a couple of good horns and am going to study it a while and try to make one. I work at the Stock Yard in Oklahome City and can get my hands on fresh cut horns from time to time so I really want to get the cow horn howlers figgered out.
Just wanted to introduce my self to the group and say thanks for the great forun. I think I have already learned a lot and look forward to being a part of the group.
Tom in Blanchard,OK.
Please forgive the spelling. I know it is ruff but I just have to writh this stuff out and hope for the best. Thanks agn..
I am a new member so this is my first post.
A couple of months ago, I baught a "Cotton Tail in Distress" call and then several weeks later, I baught a Howler. I am also new to calling coyotes. Have trapped them but am just getting into calling.
Looking at the Howler, it didn't look that hard to make, so I studied how it was built but didn't try to make one.( As a kid, my Uncle showed me how to make whistles from cane reeds.) One morning, I noticed some old timie cloths pin that my wife had left laying on top of the dryer and I saw the mouth-piece it the clothspin. It is one of the one piece kind with a crotch and no spring. I took it to the vice and using a 5/32 drill bit and a hack saw, made a mouth piece from one leg and a wedge to hole the reede from the other. Then I cut a reed from a diet coke can and "wow" that clothes pen was crying like a rabbit in big trouble.
Needless to say, I have make several call in the last few weeks including a cowhorn howler with a deer horn mouth piece. This was mostly LUCK. It howls and makes sounds like a dog being beatten up or run over by a car but not too good at the rabbit cry. I have herd a rabbit cry with its last few breths and a couple of the cloths pen calls do a better job of memicking that sound.
I ran into a local guy who does some gunsmithing and knife making, he also hunts coyotes,he tried one of my clothes pen calls and grinned real big and said that he thought I was getting along OK, not to know what I was doing. That made me feel really good but I am still truly in the dark about a lot of things.
Then, last week, I pulled the noise makers out fo some dog chew toys and looked at how they were made. After a few nights sleeping on them, I made one from a piece of 1/4 inch copper tubing and a reed made from a pop can. With a little playing, it made the sound that I think I really like. B;owing it in a pannic screem, the pitch changes and gets throaty but as the screem gets weaker, it settles down to a dismal cry. Have made several but having trouble reproducing that particular effect. So, I guess I don't know what phisical charisteristic I am trying to reprodece. Still really in the dark.
Anyway, I was excited to find this forum and the "Hand Call" section. The post of making a call from Cow Horn was really insightfull and reaferming. Thanks. I have a couple of good horns and am going to study it a while and try to make one. I work at the Stock Yard in Oklahome City and can get my hands on fresh cut horns from time to time so I really want to get the cow horn howlers figgered out.
Just wanted to introduce my self to the group and say thanks for the great forun. I think I have already learned a lot and look forward to being a part of the group.
Tom in Blanchard,OK.
Please forgive the spelling. I know it is ruff but I just have to writh this stuff out and hope for the best. Thanks agn..
