Why so many foxpros for sale?

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I'm looking for opinions here, and some insight into why so many folks are investing $300 - $500+ on ecalls, using them for a month or a two and then putting up for sale. In the reviews and sales pitches I've read these calls are described as very effective - called in 11 'yotes, 2 bobcats, 6 reds, in a two month period, etc - so I'm wondering if so effective, and you've already invested the $$$ why put on the market?
 
I wanted to add that I've never owned an ecaller, am thinking of purchasing one and these are some of the questions I've come across.

There's certainly no ill will toward FoxPro, I just want to understand the rationale.
 
My opinion.

1) There are a lot of folks that think they can buy an electronic caller, go out somewhere, sit under a tree or by a bush, turn on the caller and animals will come running. They try *that* a few times, and give up. Caller goes up for sale.

2) Many guys sell their callers to upgrade.

3) More FP callers sold than all others combined. Naturally when you see a caller for sale, there's a good chance it might be a FP.
 
absolutalty doggin. e callers are NOT the magic bullet people think they are. you still have to do everything right to make it happen.
 
Originally Posted By: doggin coyotesMy opinion.
2) Many guys sell their callers to upgrade.

3) More FP callers sold than all others combined. Naturally when you see a caller for sale, there's a good chance it might be a FP.

I think #2 and #3 are more realistic and #4 which you forgot Doggin, is that people find themselves in a bind with money that's needed for other things relating to an Obamaconomy. IMO!

Vaportrail
 
It all work's out. I picked up my first Foxpro. (FX3 for $175) The guy said he upgraded and didn't need an extra.
 
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You would be amazed at the people that think they can just buy a ecaller and decoys and have coyotes come running into their lap just like in the shows!

But yeah I would say most are just upgrading. And some just don't like the ecallers and prefer to use hand calls.
 
You will also find some, like me, that get an e-caller for lack of knowing what a call should sound like when starting and then switch to generally using hand calls, unless there are sounds that I just can't make with a hand call (not saying they can't be made, just I can't make them)...

But to have a $400-$600 e-caller sitting around that is seldom used, is ridiculous, in my opinion...'cause, as stated before, they are not the 'magic bullet' to success...
 
I think another reason is that hunting is seasonal for some folks. They hunt a couple of months during the "peak" months, and then the first nice warm day they need a new high-dollar fishing pole and the Foxpro is turned into some nice $$ real quick.
Then next Fall when the first frost hits they'll be looking for a new Foxpro.
An E-caller isn't something most folks get an attachment to, like a gun, or even a custom hand call. I've had my Fury for a couple of years, and I like it just fine. But if I need to send it down the road and get another one later I will.

The pawn shops get a lot of very nice rifles after deer season too, but they're still nice rifles.
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Originally Posted By: fw707I think another reason is that hunting is seasonal for some folks. They hunt a couple of months during the "peak" months, and then the first nice warm day they need a new high-dollar fishing pole and the Foxpro is turned into some nice $$ real quick.
Then next Fall when the first frost hits they'll be looking for a new Foxpro.
An E-caller isn't something most folks get an attachment to, like a gun, or even a custom hand call. I've had my Fury for a couple of years, and I like it just fine. But if I need to send it down the road and get another one later I will.

This gets my vote. The one's I've sold were either to upgrade or free up some funds for something new, then around August to September, I'm back looking for another call. $400 or so is quite a bit to have tied up on the shelf all summer.
 
Some sell to upgrade, some buy thinking they are the magic call anything in setup. But you have to work at calling and sometimes it still will not bring the fur home everytime. My CS-24 works great sometimes, 4 weeks ago yotes were out 8-900 yards, I turned the call on, they sat and looked in the direction of the caller and could have cared less. If they do not want to eat than they will live to see another day.
 
Originally Posted By: fw707I think another reason is that hunting is seasonal for some folks. They hunt a couple of months during the "peak" months, and then the first nice warm day they need a new high-dollar fishing pole and the Foxpro is turned into some nice $$ real quick.
Then next Fall when the first frost hits they'll be looking for a new Foxpro.
An E-caller isn't something most folks get an attachment to, like a gun, or even a custom hand call. I've had my Fury for a couple of years, and I like it just fine. But if I need to send it down the road and get another one later I will.

The pawn shops get a lot of very nice rifles after deer season too, but they're still nice rifles.
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Very true. I've known guys who would put a deer rifle on lay away at Walmart, get it out on the Friday before season opened on Saturday, and then be looking to sell it the day after deer season closed. Each year, they would repeat the scene from the year before. Some of these goobers are also the ones who buy an ecaller, try it a few times, and if the criiters don't knock them over as they run in, they sell it and go onto another "hobby". I started out with and FX3, kept it a few months, then sold it and bought a Scorpion, and now have a Fury.
 
I sold my old Foxpro when I upgraded. In hindsight I probably should have either kept it for a spare or to use under circumstances where a lighter caller would have been nice. I didn't see any sense in hanging onto the Scorpion when I bought the Fury but in hindsight it would have been a good thing to hang onto.
 
I started out with Foxpro and then later switched to (WT) because it worked better and produced more fur for me and the way that I hunt.
They say that more fp's have been sold then anyother call but I dont think so,atleast not yet.
JS was selling calls with greater sounds before Foxpro was even a dream and still is.
Also more then a few people have had problems with there callers not working right and remote troubles.
Nice thing about so many for sale is you could get a good deal on a used one.
And yes,few people think that they can buy one and have coyotes running it to there laps,there is more to it then that.
I like how alot of shows are using electric calls now.
Alot of them couldnt call one in with a mouth call to save there life. LOL!!!
A electric call is a tool ! remember that and learn how to use it.
 
I bought then sold the 3 I had in as many years.
I got tired of carrying them and went back to simpler hand calling which I think is more exciting.
 
I sold a fx-3 about 2 years ago to upgrade to a cs-24, and I recently sold the cs-24 to help fund a project. At the end of this season I left the electronic call at home and I realized I had more fun using mouth calls anyway!
 
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