Primos Alpha Dogg

I have the power dog for two years used it heavily this past winter and called in my first coyote used hand calls to !!!! Love how easy it was to use ! Have been reading and reading and reading about alpha dog and fox pro wild fire with fox bang ! But the sounds a posed to alpha male is no conpearisun thirty five sounds a posed to seventy five and can hold up to a thousand !!! and all the sounds that are made by Randy Anderson not to menchen the VALUME I have also pert chest calling all coyotes number nine and that's all Randy Anderson is using I think I am going to up grade to the alpha male !!!!!!!
 
I just pulled my Alpha Dog out of the box, loaded up the batteries, 8 for the caller and 3 for the remote. Powered everything up paged thru the remotes menu, found it to be very intuitive and straight forward. In a matter of moments my labardor retriever was having a fit howling at the door of my man cave. The audio quality is very good. Overall I am fully confident that the Alpha Dog will Git 'er done.

The manual seems to be a little sparse regarding details of the caller and the remote.
 
Guys, I LOVE this call.. Ive shot 3 coyotes in 5 trips in the woods with it since November. 4 bobcats, an otter (i let him walk) I big Sow pig, and CROWS! I hate those lil bast@#ds!! Hawks cant resist it either. I do best with the scrub hare sound. The Hog came in on the field mouse squeak as did the otter. The bobcats just dont care..they are dumb as dirt..they sniff the call and stare at the feather decoy. Bobs will come on in to any sound I use, they just "appear" like a ghost. The batteries last for a long while and man this thing gets LOUD! I never get it up past 60 but it goes to 100. normally I start out quiet at 10 then move up to 20-30-40 then back down..if its really windy I go up to 60. Buy one. its the best thing for predator hunting since gunpowder! -Jeff in Florida
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Called my first yote with the alpha dogg.I have just used mine 3 times.I like the expert call sounds and you can buy more sounds or download free mp3's from the internet .Very good build quality.
 
I have had An old Johnny Stewart tape caller, a Fox Pro XR6 a Power dog and now the Alpha Dog.

The J. Stewart worked very well for a wired caller. The Fox Pro I had was a piece of crap as far as the quality and loudness of the sounds and the remote was a piece of ****. NOw the OLD POWER DOG as far as the quality of sounds was better than the Fox Pro and almost as loud. I was quite loud for a 4 battery caller and for its size. Plus the remote was real easy to use, didn't have much range but then again it was not claimed to be a LONG range remote.

Now this Alpha Dog is the cats meow so far. Very loud with great clarity of sounds, Plenty of preloaded sounds to do me. real easy to use remote and great distance.

It is really not fair to compare a 4 battery caller to an 8 battery caller for loudness as it takes more power / more batteries to have the real loud sounds.

For you that still might have an old Primos Power Dawg caller and are or have had trouble with some batteries not working or you got it and put batteries in it and it did not work so you sent it back and they returned it and it still didn't work with the same batteries as you first tried. Well what it is is that all batteries are not made exactly the same. I found this out because I ordered a couple extra battery holders for my Power Dawg, well for some reason they did not work with the cheap batteries I was trying to use. I would inset the batteries in the holders and test with a volt meter ,,they no worky
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What I finally figured out is the Positive end (the tit that stick out)of all double AA batteries are not the same length.
I bought some quality batteries and to my surprise they worked. So as a have to know why guy I checked the length of the tit on the positive end of both brands of batteries with a set of Digital Calipers, the cheap brand the tit was quite a bit shorter than the quality brand battery.

Just a heads up if you had this problem.

DAB
 
Originally Posted By: DAB So as a have to know why guy I checked the length of the tit on the positive end of both brands of batteries with a set of Digital Calipers, the cheap brand the tit was quite a bit shorter than the quality brand battery.

the springs in the battery holder should of made up for the short nubs?
 
Love my alpha dog I have had and used it for a couple of years now and not a single problem other than when the batteries get low it will distort at high volume. I will admit this is my first ecaller but I have been happy with it.
 
Sorry for reviving an old thread but just wanted to say thanks for all the good advice in this thread. I am in the market for an Alpha Dogg and did a google search and got led here. Had to make an account.

It seems like the most common complaints about the alpha dogg are how often you have to replace the batteries... but another source says it's a very loud, well built call. I'm personally on the fence between this and a foxpro shockwave

Grant
 
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Originally Posted By: Grant HuntsIt seems like the most common complaints about the alpha dogg are how often you have to replace the remotes...

why do people need to replace the remote? what goes wrong with them?
 
Originally Posted By: Grant HuntsSorry for reviving an old thread but just wanted to say thanks for all the good advice in this thread. I am in the market for an Alpha Dogg and did a google search and got led here. Had to make an account.

It seems like the most common complaints about the alpha dogg are how often you have to replace the batteries... but another source says it's a very loud, well built call. I'm personally on the fence between this and a foxpro shockwave

Grant

I started out with the alpha dogg and I like it then I bought a Shockwave.

I use BOTH during the season. I use the alpha dogg closer toward the end of the season and have had good luck. The thing is most people have a Fox pro and they ALL are playing the same sounds over and over. Yes we can mix them up in several ways using the remote but using the alpha dogg allows me to throw something different at the coyotes that have been pressed all season. I can't prove them came in because I was using a different call but it's fun mixing them up.
 
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