Caller-4-Hire
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Has anyone seen one of these in person , if so what are your thoughts on it . What is the weight of the decoy and how many of you think it is a good ideal.
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New flambeau decoy ( lone howler) Coyote Down with Lone Howler
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tr220swift
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I have been trying to find it on the web, with no luck not even on the flambeau website. I am looking forward to this one.
Caller-4-Hire
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Me to found a press release on the web from flambeau. APC has them on thier site for 99.00 . I was jus wondering about the weight. Think it will make for some interesting filming chances.
utahpredator_7
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I think Edge by Expedite just made something like this too. I'd check it out, they make good stuff.
Caller-4-Hire
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Well might have made a mistake but just purchased the Lone Howler Decoy . Hopefull we will get some footage of the decoy in action and see how the coyotes react to it . Well keep yall posted on the results.
RayB
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I also am interested in this decoy. Allpredatorcalls.com is presently sold out according to their website today. Also the fawn decoy by Edge Expedite.
http://www.allpredatorcalls.com/flamcoy.jpg
http://www.allpredatorcalls.com/flamcoy.jpg
callemclose
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Lone howler looks good but a bit pricey for me, tried to order the 'yote' by Edge Expedite but they are sold out everywhere I could think to order so I ordered the fawn decoy from Cabelas. I would like to know what everybody who has one or the other thinks of them so far.
muckamuck4
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Thats the 1st i have seen of the Flambeau decoy. It looks great to me. I havent tried any sets with predator decoys, but i might have to give it a shot.
stevecriner
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Tad, Called the other day and got my address. I should have one on the way. Im excited to use it for sure.
Dultimatpredator
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They have one at Gandar mountain, its still in the box. Just more crap to lug out in the woods. Its just like turkey calling. When I started I took a diaphram call with me and my gun. Now for some reason it takes a blind. 12 calls, a chair, and tons of other garbage most people dont need. It feels like your going camping some times when going out hunting for a few hours.
Caller-4-Hire
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You got that right . Two years ago we lost a predator supreme to a road decoy poacher LOL . He was pretty mad that we caught him on film shooting the helpless trophy decoy.
Weasel's point is a good one, I think a goose hunter was killed last year when some idiot thought his decoys were real geese and started shooting at them with a .22. Hit one young hunter in the head and killed him. I have been thinking about getting or making a coyote decoy and frankly hadn't thought about what Weasel said until I saw his post. Thanks Weas
Jay Nistetter
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The following Lone Howler from Flambeau.
It weighs 4# 9oz
30" from nose to rump (not including tail).
Eyes are good.
Tail can be up. stright or down in relaxed position.
This critter can be posed standing, sitting, ears forward, sideway, cockeyed.
The tail can be posed however you want it.
The tail is probably the best indicator of the coyote demeanor.
I plan on posing it watching the JIB and should work extremely well.
Why? Because it has worked in the past using a decoy less sophistocated.
Hopefully in 2 weeks I will have some pics to share.
It weighs 4# 9oz
30" from nose to rump (not including tail).
Eyes are good.
Tail can be up. stright or down in relaxed position.
This critter can be posed standing, sitting, ears forward, sideway, cockeyed.
The tail can be posed however you want it.
The tail is probably the best indicator of the coyote demeanor.
I plan on posing it watching the JIB and should work extremely well.
Why? Because it has worked in the past using a decoy less sophistocated.
Hopefully in 2 weeks I will have some pics to share.
utahpredator_7
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Yeah i just got the new cabela's reloading catalogue and the edge by expedite one's only 40 bucks.
Todd Woodall
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Looks good to me!
No doubt the best portable full sized coyote decoy Ive seen. I personally have never used a coyote decoy before, but I ran into an instance just the other day that it would have come in real, real handy.
Jeff and I ran down to Central Texas(my old stomping grounds) for a quick day hunt. I called around and picked up a couple new pieces of property from a land owner that leases a bunch of places for cattle. I already hunt on his other places and he filled me in on the new ones over the phone. He said early in the AM he has been seeing several coyotes in the middle of a wide open flat field. The only problem is they are very weary because a road runs around two sides of the open field. Like most rural places we had our share of road hunters growing up, and that number has done nothing but increase. Just about any farmer will shoot a coyote on sight, and there are many others that just drive around looking for em. Needless to say if a vehicle slows down, the coyotes are GONE! It doesnt help that this area is an easy spot to park on the road and call at night, so i would imagine these coyotes arent new to the calling game.
Here is what happened...
Knowing that early AM is a proven hot time we hit this one first. We had a plan to be setup at daylight, but the 120 miles and much needed breadfast stop put us late. I wasnt sure if there was a good spot to hide a truck so we slowly drove near the place to scope it out. What we scoped was a field visible from several hundred yards from either direction with no good place to park a truck. What we also found was 6 coyotes standing in the smack dab middle of it 600 yards from anything. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif We cruised by without slowing down and they had a fix on us long before we saw em. They slowly worked back twords a tree line as we were heading the other direction, but not spooked to bad. 10 minutes later we cruised back by to park the truck a long walk aways but from about the only place they cant see us do everything. We figured they would be dispersing and hopefully bedding down in the heavy cover around the field, we were right. One lone coyote remained in the field as we drove back by and actually ran across the county road in front of us to another property. We parked the truck and walked slowly back in concealed by a long row of hay bales. We got to the point and quickly set up. We could see for several hundred yards in every direction, except our hard left. There was a large bald tank dam and also the cows were all right there too(bout 60 head). 3 minutes in we have the coyote that crossed the road on us coming through the tight packed group of cows. Just so happen the light and variable wind decided to do us no favors. One already spooky coyote is now much smarter.
Late that evening we snuck back into the same field from the opposite direction and set up on the opposite side of the field from the morning hunt. We started off with a few lone howls and sat for several minutes. We had no response and ran a series of distress sounds to no avail. There are a ton of feral pigs in the area and we walked within 60 yards of some young females with babies as we set up. I used a baby pig distress to hopfully add some realism, and not to use the rabbit sounds I am sure they have heard before. Although it sounded good in principle, it did not work on this day. If this place was close to home I would have waited a couple weeks to let things cool down, but since I only call the area once a year we had to give it a shot.
You can bet the next time I hit that field I will be there long before daylight, and have the coyote decoy set up. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
Take care,
Todd
No doubt the best portable full sized coyote decoy Ive seen. I personally have never used a coyote decoy before, but I ran into an instance just the other day that it would have come in real, real handy.
Jeff and I ran down to Central Texas(my old stomping grounds) for a quick day hunt. I called around and picked up a couple new pieces of property from a land owner that leases a bunch of places for cattle. I already hunt on his other places and he filled me in on the new ones over the phone. He said early in the AM he has been seeing several coyotes in the middle of a wide open flat field. The only problem is they are very weary because a road runs around two sides of the open field. Like most rural places we had our share of road hunters growing up, and that number has done nothing but increase. Just about any farmer will shoot a coyote on sight, and there are many others that just drive around looking for em. Needless to say if a vehicle slows down, the coyotes are GONE! It doesnt help that this area is an easy spot to park on the road and call at night, so i would imagine these coyotes arent new to the calling game.
Here is what happened...
Knowing that early AM is a proven hot time we hit this one first. We had a plan to be setup at daylight, but the 120 miles and much needed breadfast stop put us late. I wasnt sure if there was a good spot to hide a truck so we slowly drove near the place to scope it out. What we scoped was a field visible from several hundred yards from either direction with no good place to park a truck. What we also found was 6 coyotes standing in the smack dab middle of it 600 yards from anything. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif We cruised by without slowing down and they had a fix on us long before we saw em. They slowly worked back twords a tree line as we were heading the other direction, but not spooked to bad. 10 minutes later we cruised back by to park the truck a long walk aways but from about the only place they cant see us do everything. We figured they would be dispersing and hopefully bedding down in the heavy cover around the field, we were right. One lone coyote remained in the field as we drove back by and actually ran across the county road in front of us to another property. We parked the truck and walked slowly back in concealed by a long row of hay bales. We got to the point and quickly set up. We could see for several hundred yards in every direction, except our hard left. There was a large bald tank dam and also the cows were all right there too(bout 60 head). 3 minutes in we have the coyote that crossed the road on us coming through the tight packed group of cows. Just so happen the light and variable wind decided to do us no favors. One already spooky coyote is now much smarter.
Late that evening we snuck back into the same field from the opposite direction and set up on the opposite side of the field from the morning hunt. We started off with a few lone howls and sat for several minutes. We had no response and ran a series of distress sounds to no avail. There are a ton of feral pigs in the area and we walked within 60 yards of some young females with babies as we set up. I used a baby pig distress to hopfully add some realism, and not to use the rabbit sounds I am sure they have heard before. Although it sounded good in principle, it did not work on this day. If this place was close to home I would have waited a couple weeks to let things cool down, but since I only call the area once a year we had to give it a shot.
You can bet the next time I hit that field I will be there long before daylight, and have the coyote decoy set up. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
Take care,
Todd
coyote control
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Hey Jay, thanks for the Pic's, very helpfull to be able to see how it really looks.