Why????

Because I wanted to be able to get the sound away from my position and be able to get on the downwind side of the remotely controlled electronic caller. I need every edge I can get with the wiley coyotes.
 
Silverfox has the right idea. Get the sound away from you. Movement will kill you.

In Arizona we can drive 200 miles in a day and cover many, may stands. I can not call sunup until sundown, using nothing but hand calls. Heck, you get split lip, trombone lip, and whatever lip, if you use a hand call, all day long. The use of the electronic will help alleviate that problem.
 
I use an electronic caller because, the animal's focus is on the caller instead of the shooter. When the object is to kill as many animals as possible, I always prefer a combination of hand calls and electronics. Start with the hand call, and get them moving in your direction, and switch to the electronics so that when they show up, they are looking toward the sound, and don't notice when you bring the gun up. Hand calling all day or all night is extremely tiring, and it is my belief that they both receive about equal response. So, as a welcome relief at night, and because of a change of strategy, it's okay to use electronics, and in a reversal, it is absolutely essential that the animal be looking right at you, as the source of the sound. I would further posulate that it is not necessary to choose one over the other. Take both the machine, and an ammo box full of hand calls, and use them both, they work very well, together, or separately.

Good hunting. LB
 
I have to agree, I too think the biggest advantage to an electronic caller is separating the sound from the operator. Next to that, I’d have to rate the ability to produce many different sounds the next biggest attraction of electronic callers.

I do a lot of my calling by myself and can’t afford to have the responding animal focused on me as the source of sound. And like Bruce mentioned, very few callers have the lungs to hump it and use a mouth call all day long.

Besides, I find it awful hard to smoke a Camel and blow a hand call at the same time. Now if someone would make a hand call that doubles as a cigarette holder, then us smokers would truly have something...
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Isolating your self from the sound is one great advantage of the electronic caller , But I think the main reason i use one is the fact that i cannot make alot of the sounds with my mouth blown calls as the fox pro can .I usually use both the fox pro and mouth calls at almost every stand , as well as howelers . Throw in a decoy and you have a set that is hard to resist, even for the most call shy coyote . A normal set for me starts off with a three howel series , then the fox pro on low low volume . Then ill chime in on my critter call or the sceery AP-6 . This is why i favor the use of the electronic caller in conjunction with my mouth blown calls . GOOD CALLIN Jerry .
 
moses man...

Good point about the variety of sounds offered by electronic calls. Your combination of hand calls, decoy, and FoxPro certainly sounds effective.

Thanks for sharing it with us...
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Back when I started calling, about 1960, I wasn't 100 percent convinced that calling would even work for the average guy, and had no confidence at all that I could make the right sounds, so electronic was the way to go. Over the years, I had no contact with other callers (everybody considered what I did somewhere between odd and magical) so I kept doing what worked. After learning to use hand calls, and becoming convinced that I was just as effective calling in critters with hand calls as with an electronic, my electronic got less and less use. Then I called in a lion with a Crit'R-Call Pee-Wee, and got to thinking later about what that lion looked like as it came walking slowly toward me, and bought a Dennis Kirk remote call as insurance for use when hunting lion country. It helps my allergy: lion claws in my back.

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I've said this many times, on various boards. I don't use an electronic call very often, but on those windy days, on those days when a diferent sound is a help or when I simply can't stand to stick a hand call in my mouth again I go electronic. Lately I have been getting more serious about cats and I believe that placing the call away from the gun is imoprtant the as well.

Michael
 
I use the electronic caller as another tool to "wage war" on the predators. It is another useful tool, for all of the reasons stated above. I just figure that I will use every "edge" that I can get when calling predators.
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MI VHNTR...

You’re right about today’s predator callers needing to seek out every available tool to gain the “edge” over their quarry.

I remember when I first started calling critters, over 40 years ago, not many folks where into calling predators back then. Most folks in my home town looked at me as wasting my time chasing them mangy, flea bitten critters – seven days a week.

Back then, you could get both a short and long range hand call for five bucks. How well I still remember those advertisements in the back of Outdoor Life.

As time progressed, more and more folks discovered what they had been missing and took up the sport. Calling equipment kept getting better and the predators kept getting smarter; this predator type arms-race continues on today.

Any predator caller that takes the sport seriously is always turning over every stone they come across, looking for something new to maintain the edge over them Ph.D card-carrying coyotes....
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AzWill, I found that there are more callers here than I had previously figured also. Some of these guys want to hunt coyotes over bait, from deer blinds, and with a caller, all at the same time. They sit for 10-15 minutes, think that nothing will respond, and quit because, "it doesn't work." They want "instant results" while hunting. It just doesn't happen that way here. I told them to read some books, watch some videos, and to read this board. They really messed up one of my best areas with these tactics. I guess that's one of the reasons that I always try to stay "one step ahead" of the game. That's another reason for one of the newer electronic callers. Most of the casual callers won't pay for one. Therefore, the sounds are different than the next guys. MI VHNTR

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I use electronic callers mostly for bobcats to save my lungs.There is something about a mouth call i prefer when calling coyotes.

Electronic callers are heaver and require extra time to setup.I like to travel light
get to my stand call shoot and leave quick.

Electronic callers will keep the predators eyes on the caller and off the hunter.
 
I use the 512 anchor. It is a treat when I am able to use just mouth calls, but I call in such thick cover I find more success useing the machine. Also, it provides multiple sounds at the same time.



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