Squirrel and Chipmunk distress

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FrankenCub

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I've been wanting to try something different. There are a lot of chipmunk and squirrels here, very very few rabbits. Been lookin everywhere for sounds and no luck for distress sounds. Any chance one of you guys may have something or a place to look ?
 
This pack comes with 2 calls, 1 distress. Real easy to use, plus comes with DVD. Good luck with that!

http://www.king-cart.com/cgi-bin/cart.cgi?store=apc&product=Squirrel+Calls&exact_match=exact

Knight & Hale - Squirrel Magic Calling Kit with DVD # KH5104
Includes 2 calls & instructional DVD(55 minute). 2 calls included are the young squirrel distress call and the 4-in-1 squirrel call. The video covers where to find squirrels and teaches the proper sounds of squirrel calling.
 
I have used squirrel distress quite a bit here in the Ozark timber. It has been very effective for me. I use it on both my FoxPro FX3 and in a hand call. The hand call I like and use is the Faulk's Squirrel Distress. I have sifted through coyote poop and found tons of the little claws in the crap. I once watched a large gray color coyote chase a couple of squirrels, they hit a tree and ran up out of reach and began cussing the coyote. The coyote looked like a squirrel hound or coon hound; he was hopping up and would stand with his front feet up on the trunk as he gazed up at the squirrels out of reach. I was deer hunting and sitting about 75 yards above on a point that lead down into the saddle where the coyote was. I started lip squeaking and that coyote bounced off the trunk of the tree and charged as hard as any coyote I’ve ever called right to me. I let him flare off at about 10 yards when he realized something wasn’t right and didn’t shoot. The very next day a smaller yellow colored coyote did the very same act. Chased a squirrel and treed it in the same place. I lip squeaked that one to me also… but it didn’t get a pass like the one the day before did. The 180 gr. .30-06 ran stem to stern and made for a very decisive stopper! Interestingly, the next coyote I shot off the squirrel distress was while I was actually squirrel hunting and I killed it at about 8’ with a .22LR in the eye as it nearly ran me over. Pretty wide range of calibers between those two… /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
A lohman's squirell bark call can also make some good growls and distress squeels if you push the bellows instead of shaking it. Push slow/short for growls and quick/long for squeels.
 
I have a squirrel call, can't recall who makes it, but it makes all the squirrel sounds and does a very good job of it, am going to use it more this season. Good luck!
 
I personally don't think it matters much what sound you make as long as you make it sound "like something is really hurting bad" and put lots of emotion into it.
 
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I personally don't think it matters much what sound you make as long as you make it sound "like something is really hurting bad" and put lots of emotion into it.



I've said that for years, we often over think the sound selection. However, I get bored with the same thing over and over and try some different stuff occasionally just because. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
Thanks guys. I'll look into those. I did find some MP3 sounds, that will give me something to listen to when I try to reproduce them with mouth calls. I'm not real good at that either /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
If I can't get it I will burn something to CD and build myself an E caller. I have a bunch of stuff on old tapes I bought years ago, mostly Johnny Stewart I think, but the tapes are showing their age. Time to update.
 
If you want the squirrel distress to really work for calling in predators, sit near a bush with leaves on it and shake it hard while calling, or take a stick and scrape it in the leaves on the ground while you are calling. I cant count the coyote`s or fox that I have called when doing this. It works real good in heavy woods. The last time I tried this method, when I stopped shaking the large brush near me, I could hear a coyote breathing on the other side of the brush, up close and personal.
 


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