Life expectancy for electronic call

I think they do have a mileage date. Old calls used a little last a very long time. The calls are ok but your speakers wear out over time with heavy use. IMO. They sound ok to us but something changed to the animals and they react differently or not at all and avoid you. Volume I believe is the speaker killer. Can’t prove this but I do know when I get a new speaker things are good again for sometime.
 
I had a conversation with one of the "FOX PRO" guys a while back. He said that the sound from the FX3/5 is as good as most of their new ones and probably as loud. ( 'cept there big multipall speaker ones)
 
My Fx3 is 20 years old, still works like always. One issue is I cannot get it to connect to a computer, so no reprogramming until I get that sorted out

My Fusion is 10 years old and no issues

X24 is 2 years old and works perfect

Next one will be the X48, unknown delivery date :ROFLMAO:
 
doggin coyotes said:
I had a nice Foxpro Fusion caller that lasted 3 whole days. On the 3rd day it caught a partial load of #2 TSS. It didn't survive it!
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I ran a Fusion for several years. It got hit 3 times with buck shot during that time. The first 2 times it was just a single pellet and didn't do any harm but the third time it caught a full load and it was done.
 
Decoyed said:
I think they do have a mileage date. Old calls used a little last a very long time. The calls are ok but your speakers wear out over time with heavy use. IMO. They sound ok to us but something changed to the animals and they react differently or not at all and avoid you. Volume I believe is the speaker killer. Can’t prove this but I do know when I get a new speaker things are good again for sometime.
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I've wondered about this myself. I have a FoxPro Shockwave that must be 13-14 years old now. For years I was pretty successful with it. Last season I started to really struggle getting a response. Same so far this season. Very limited responses. Hand calls still work to some extent, so it's not just the obviously reduce coyote population in my area. Thus, I'm growing concerned that there's something amiss with the speakers, which have sung the bunny blues for many, many hours. Perhaps I need some real young, sensitive ears to listen to the caller. Maybe they could pick up some background noise my old desensitized ears don't hear.
 
DesertRam said:
I've wondered about this myself. I have a FoxPro Shockwave that must be 13-14 years old now. For years I was pretty successful with it. Last season I started to really struggle getting a response. Same so far this season. Very limited responses. Hand calls still work to some extent, so it's not just the obviously reduce coyote population in my area. Thus, I'm growing concerned that there's something amiss with the speakers, which have sung the bunny blues for many, many hours. Perhaps I need some real young, sensitive ears to listen to the caller. Maybe they could pick up some background noise my old desensitized ears don't hear.
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I've been less successful calling coyotes the last 5 years than I was 2015 to 2020 in Southern NM. Old speakers could be a factor I haven't considered but I believe it is more complicated than that.

I do think there is a significantly reduced population of coyotes in Southern NM. AWS and I were talking about this. Both of us haven't been killing as many pups in recent years. 7 or 8 years ago it seemed like almost half the coyotes I called in were less than 2 years old. I haven't killed a young one this year and last year I can only think of two young ones that I killed. In most places there are far fewer rabbits than there used to be. Probably a combination of drought and hemorrhagic diseases keeping rabbit/coyote populations down. I don't have any data to back it up but I think more people were out calling coyotes starting in 2020 because COVID restrictions. I never ran into another coyote hunter until 2020 and have come across at least once per year since then. In November I set up in a spot I went to a spot not far from town that I've hunted for 10 years and before I started calling, I could hear another coyote caller calling off in the distance and then heard a shot a few minutes later.

I often use a combination of hand calls and e caller on most stands. I'm sure the smart coyotes can hear something wrong with an e caller. When I go to spots between El Paso and Las Cruces with educated coyotes, I tend to rely on hand calls to fool them more than the e caller.

I have an old Shockwave and a Primos Alpha dog. According to my ears, they both sound as good as the day I bought them but I also have hearing loss from shooting too many guns without hearing protection when I was a teenager.

I've done ok lately but it defiantly seems more difficult than it used to. Two weeks ago I called in 4 one morning. Christmas Eve I called in one coyote in 3 stands. On the morning of the 1st I called in 5 coyotes. On the 3rd I called in one coyote on one stand on Ft Bliss after my friends son tagged out on a Barbary sheep early. The next morning we made 4 stands on BLM just north of Mexico in a spot I did well last year and we didn't see a single coyote.

Maybe I'm part of the reason your shockwave isn't working as well. We have probably called some of the same areas. I'll send you a message with a screenshot of my ON X map to give you an idea of places I call.
 
1lessdog said:
I have a FX3 and just wondering if the new FoxPros sound better than the FX3? I use a hand call 95% of the time.

The show Carnivore uses the FREQ and swear by it. But it's a 2000.00 call
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I had a FREQ and had to send it back.
They were VERY good with me. I had it in twice, working on the problem.
I don't know what was wrong; I could not call in a coyote.
I think it had a glitch in the Ultrasonic sound.
It actually scared off coyotes. I actually watched it do it on certain sounds.
They stood behind their call 100% all the shipping and insurance were covered by them, and an instant refund.
I really believe in their concept and probably will get another one at some point.
I don't know it for a fact, BUT in my mind, FoxPro with their X48 is having the same issue; they postponed their release over a year. It's to be Ultrasonic too.
 
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