Using your voice as a call

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medic joe

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Its been quite a few years now. But back when I was doing some hand calling. I mainly used a Crit'R call pee wee. Mainly because it was able to make high pitched sounds. It took me roughly 1 week until I became quite good with it. One call sound I made with it was a high pitched fawn bleat. Being good at voice impersonations. I thought I would try my own voice to make a fawn bleat. It didn't take much practice until I had that sound mastered. I believe with some practice (any of you) can also do it.

What I would do is. Tighten my throat muscles ie; closing my vocal cords. Then forcing out my lung air. Saying the words; meeee-ant.

Once I got good at making that sound. I tried it on a stand one day. It was on an abandoned farm. With a high weedy dirt mound on the edge of the farm yard. The mound over looked a timbered draw. A few hundred yards down a steep hill. No predators responded. But I did call in a stomping/snorting Doe deer within maybe 6' away from me. I also called in a feral cat. It stopped around 20' away from me. Being a dog guy. I did put my crosshairs on the cat's forehead & had a chuckle.
 
Check out the dvd predator termination time. Tim Wells uses his voice to mimic rabbit distress and does an amazing job of it.
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A few months ago I went to check on some stuff on my lease. Right at dark a pack of coyotes opened up only a few hundred yards away. I go to my truck to get a hand call that I usually keep in my truck, but I took them out and left them at the house. I did find an old turkey mouth call. I popped it in and sounded like a dead coyote trying to howl. It didn't work. LoL
 
My great grandfather was a water well driller, Nevada State Assemblyman, a party animal that loved to throw em back, and a government animal control employee. When I was a little kid we went to his house in Battle Mountain Nevada and he showed me his coyote pelts and handcalls. My very first exposure to it all. He proceeded to walk outside... as he lived on the edge of town...and let out a couple howls with his voice...and he got an answer back. I thought that was the most awsomest thing I had ever seen or heard of. This was in the early/ mid 1970s. He was pretty old at that time but still a bit wild.
 
medic joe said:
I mainly used a Crit'R call pee wee.
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The brand went dormant for about five years after Major retired. A couple of years ago, Steve and Tyler bought the company and all the equipment, bringing it back to life. They're now made right here in Oklahoma.

I carry a Pee Wee in my chest rig, and it's become a permanent part of my setup. Steve and Tyler are stand-up guys who are passionate about keeping the Criter Call name going.

In a couple of weeks, I'll be on a predator calling panel at the Racks & Rods Expo in Oklahoma alongside several other callers. Criter Call put the panel together, and they'll be there as well.

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When my son was 8, we were bow hunting... there was a very bad accident on the interstate and the sirens were blowing for an hour....unfortunatly Lifeflight and all.
Well the coyotes on the next ridge over started howling and I told him to mimic them....he did to a T. I was flabbergasted how good he sounded (that's a hint for all you guys that record your own sounds that have young kids)
Wouldn't you know they went ballistic and in a matter of less than a minute they came right under our trees.
 
One of my hobbies for quite a few yrs now. Has been observing wildlife & taking pictures. Numerous times I've came across a Doe or a herd of Does. From a few hundred yards away. The deer were often skittish & ready to bolt. Even though they could see my vehicle. My voice fawn bleat. Would often hold them still long enough. So I could zoom in on them & take some pictures. Buck deer were typically less interested in the bleats. I don't hunt deer. But if I did. One call I would use is the fawn bleat. Specifically, to call in a Doe or make one hold still for a shot.
 
I've called in crows with my voice on many occasions, though I much prefer a hand call. Using my voice, it is pretty rough on my vocal cords when I add the 'rumble' of crows fighting.

Do we consider lip squeaking to be calling with our voice? I do that a fair amount.
 
K-22hornet. said:
I've called in crows with my voice on many occasions, though I much prefer a hand call. Using my voice, it is pretty rough on my vocal cords when I add the 'rumble' of crows fighting.

Do we consider lip squeaking to be calling with our voice? I do that a fair amount.
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I can also make crow caws. Like you said, it is hard on your vocal cords.
 
One of my pastimes when bored in a tractor is just messing around and seeing what I can mimic and there's a few I have gotten pretty decent at.
Mule fawn and cow/calf elk I can do as well as anyone with a call and I use them regularly when bowhunting. The 2 times I have had chances at arrowing a coyote have been while doing fawn distress with my voice.
Raven. Learned this from an old logger in British Columbia and have called many with my voice.
And lastly of course I can do a pretty passable baby cottontail and jackrabbit sound. My first shotgun coyote was called in with just my voice.
My coyote vocals need work but I think in a pinch I could get a pup or dumb adult to respond.
If there's enough interest I could do a video showing how I do em.
 
When my daughters were young and still liked to hang out with dad they'd join in while I was using the howler. Was quite effective bringing in coyotes.
 
Yotarunner said:
One of my pastimes when bored in a tractor is just messing around and seeing what I can mimic and there's a few I have gotten pretty decent at.
Mule fawn and cow/calf elk I can do as well as anyone with a call and I use them regularly when bowhunting. The 2 times I have had chances at arrowing a coyote have been while doing fawn distress with my voice.
Raven. Learned this from an old logger in British Columbia and have called many with my voice.
And lastly of course I can do a pretty passable baby cottontail and jackrabbit sound. My first shotgun coyote was called in with just my voice.
My coyote vocals need work but I think in a pinch I could get a pup or dumb adult to respond.
If there's enough interest I could do a video showing how I do em.
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Yeah, make that video. I get a lot of laughs when practicing my vocals in the car, but passengers don't get to see what comes when in the woods.
 
Did it last night with only using ( my own mouth/voice ) as a call .
I was out a couple night ago checking out a field that has about 40 head and few small calves, and got caught in a Big rain down pour and was soaked to the bone about 02:30 am. I slipped and took a light fall in the field Hustling myself and gear back to where I was parked .
Gun hit the ground on my slip and fall but I half caught it and was just a very light hit . But I Knew I had to get it out to check my Zero before the next time out for piece of mind.

OK, last night I loaded up Rifle and the hand therm. and helmet about 9pm and I ran out to a close local AG field to check my 100 yrd Zero on the Rifle . I get there, and I get out to grab the target and walkout to set it up. I click ON the Therm. Scanner, and 'Crap' I seen 2 dogs about about 300+ yard out . I am like SHIT I brought little to nothing, not bring a Call or a my Shockwave or much anything else with me just a target, tripod and rifle to check a Zero. So I hustled and made a quick rifle setup and I had NO call so I just said said FK-iiit, and just desperation started making a whimpering/whine dog sound with my voice and hand, and I got there attention.

Now I like again I think 'CRAP' i don't even know if my rifle is even On @ 100, I hope it is, or even close to good Zero . So I start in again with my own voice call, and I do get one dog moving little closer and finally I see a commitment. So I wait till I get him under a 100 yrd because 'i hope' my rifle is even close to good on Zero, and I pop one off . HIt . and then I like SHIT he doing the rodeo and a doing few squeals because I just took off the Front Leg with 110 vmax .
So now I was to far gone to stop now and jacked one more in chamber, lined up and dropped him again . Now I am feeling like a real BIG Dirt Bag, because it's another Dirty Hit also because I see him raise his head a couple times. So I take rifle off tripod, and jack in a Subsonic, then walk out and finish him.

NOW, after all that I FINALLY get to put my target up and out @ 100 yrd. to get a Zero check. I pop one off, and walk out to see that impact I'm about 2.5" down and another 3" left of the black dot . Which makes sense after that shooting fiasco. The dog was facing me, and I line-up center chest, and then took his R-front leg off on the 1st Round fired . I really hate that and bothers me when ever I do a crappy hit. But it does work with only using your human voice to calling and get a coyotes attention and come in Range .
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Hello all
I am returning to the site after several years away. 2 winters ago, I was just arriving at a friend's property to do some calling. I saw a mangy coyote trotting across a cow pasture dodging around some cows. I couldn't shoot because there were too many cows in the lot, but I let out a goose honk that I practice and sure enough, the guy stopped and looked around. I did the goose honk a couple of more times and he looked for the source but after about 30 seconds he trotted off. Lesson learned, if all else fails, make like a goose.
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