Stupid noob questions: Which sounds do I really need?

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I bought a Spitfire out of the classifieds. Now I need to know what sounds I really need, we have a large population of Coyotes, some Bobcats, some Red & Grey fox, tons of Crows, and more Hogs than you can ever kill. My property backs up to 3500+ acres of low lying, heavily wooded, marshy, and unhuntable land(not permitted).

I want to get several packages of sounds, one for Crows, one for Coyotes, one for Bobcat, and one for Foxes. What I don't know are which files I really need to buy.

I really don't want to waste money on files that are useless, but don't mind buying files that will be productive, even if it means upgrading later to a better call with more capacity. I prefer sounds that will work on any call not just the Foxpro's.

Thanks, and I am looking forward to thinning the herd.
 
Foxpro has really improved their sound library a lot, and there are some really effective sounds available. You cannot play Foxpro sounds on other callers so that may be a consideration for you.
 
For crow, crow sounds seem to work best. I don't hunt them but I'll call them in sometimes as coyotes seem to be less wary when they're around.

For coyotes you need rabbit. For when that doesn't work so well you need rabbit. Then when you get tired of that you need rabbit.

That's only halfway joking. You need prey in distress, and rabbit seems to work more often than not better than most. Maybe some bird in distress for specifically targeting bobcats (or rabbit in distress) and maybe some vole or mouse in distress to specifically target fox (or rabbit in distress).

Piglet in distress works wonders on hogs and javelina, but you want to have your caller away from you or be in an elevated stand.

You need some howls just cause they're cool, and a siren for a locator's.

Most of the sounds (and I have several hundred) are really kind of redundant (but very cool). It's fun and informative to try different things, but not really necessary.
 
You don't NEED a whole library of sounds to effectively call coyotes, foxes and bobcats. If you have a jackrabbit, grown cottontail, baby cottontail or baby jackrabbit, woodpecker distress, a rodent distress for a close range/coaxer call and a couple coyote howls you have all the sounds needed to call predators.

If you want sounds that you can play on callers other than Foxpro, I would buy the Johnny Stewart sounds. That is what I did. I bought my Spitfire with the default sounds because I knew I was going to add Johnny Stewart sounds. Most of the sounds on mine now are JS.
 
I would suggest group howl or coyote locator, coyote challenge, but the sound that brings them when nothing else will in coyote pup distress.
 
Juniper berry in distress is a very good sound. Just kidding.
The coyotes and foxes here love them. They obviously prefer blood and meat.
 
Thanks, I found Vol 1 JS on Ebay for $9.50 shipped and snatched it up, waiting on volumns 2-4, I think, to show up cheap.

Are the Bob Aronsohn cd's for the crow sounds the best?
 
Hey Orphanedcowboy-

Did you get my email w/ the picture of the shipping reciept?

I think most of the sounds on there should work great for Texas.

When I tested it out, my yard cats went crazy for most of the sounds on there. The crow and raven flocks sound excellent. The only thing lacking probably is more coyote vocalizations.
 


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