15 minutes later and I have a wet, muddy boar looking for it. I had just turned it off. He is down, but I have him posed as a decoy for now.
1st Time Using E-caller - Hog Sounds
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RattlesnakeDan
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Real life hog decoy...brilliant!!!
What sound files are you using
Jhop is right. I was using the protective sow call on a FoxPro Shockwave. Glenn Guess has been telling me that I needed to be calling hogs, but I have always failed, so he got me to get a caller with hog sounds.
Basically, I had run the call for 10 minutes and cut it off. In the twilight, I saw a hog heading to toward where the caller was and he stopped within yards of the caller which was not on now, seemed bothered by the lack of sounds and retreated to re-evaluate the situation by about 15 yards, and I popped him through the front of the chest at 57 yards. The bullet did not exit. It turned out to be a 175 lb boar with nice cutters. He was wet, muddy, and smelled awful. No rested rifle image on this hog!
And check out the mangled left rear foot!
The decoy ploy did not work as well as hoped and no other hogs showed up. So I tried a couple rabbit calls and decided on "lil rabbit" and ran that for a few minutes and stopped it. I did a scan and spotted a coyote at 150ish yards back in the corner and so I hit the button to restart the caller and that got the coyote on the move. He stopped at about 130 yards when I shot him through the left side (quartered away) which blew out a large chunk on the left side, quite oddly, I thought.
So all in all, the daughter's lightweight Grendel continues to perform well as does the Pulsar Apex XD38a.
Basically, I had run the call for 10 minutes and cut it off. In the twilight, I saw a hog heading to toward where the caller was and he stopped within yards of the caller which was not on now, seemed bothered by the lack of sounds and retreated to re-evaluate the situation by about 15 yards, and I popped him through the front of the chest at 57 yards. The bullet did not exit. It turned out to be a 175 lb boar with nice cutters. He was wet, muddy, and smelled awful. No rested rifle image on this hog!
And check out the mangled left rear foot!
The decoy ploy did not work as well as hoped and no other hogs showed up. So I tried a couple rabbit calls and decided on "lil rabbit" and ran that for a few minutes and stopped it. I did a scan and spotted a coyote at 150ish yards back in the corner and so I hit the button to restart the caller and that got the coyote on the move. He stopped at about 130 yards when I shot him through the left side (quartered away) which blew out a large chunk on the left side, quite oddly, I thought.
So all in all, the daughter's lightweight Grendel continues to perform well as does the Pulsar Apex XD38a.
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Yes, hard to believe, but I shot him on the left side. Last frame before the shot.
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So there is a tear in the skin on the right side at the low ribs, which would be behind the POI. I did not see an exit between the legs or out the chest.
It does, but it is on the wrong side and is below the exit. I was shooting from an elevated position down to the coyote.
I said it was bizarre, and it is, LOL.
I said it was bizarre, and it is, LOL.
I have an old FoxPro I bought probably 10 years ago I wonder if I can modify the sounds on it. Maybe add some pig sounds? Good job Brian, we used to hate hogs that size with cutters like that when we hunted with dogs back in the day before they made cut vest and collars. They were small enough and fast enough to work on a pack of dogs.
I just gotta figure out if I can install them on the caller. Like I said it's about 10 years old.
Yes, I just got back from the Fox Pro forum. It's an old spitfire and has an SD card in it. Thanks for the help Frank. I'll have to make a trip to Radio Shack for a 3.5mm male to male cable to hook the caller to the controller after the SD card is programmed, but that ought to do it. Unfortunately it only holds 24 sounds and the volume is pretty low. I've never been able to call anything in with it except crows. LOL
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You can download them to your phone and then get a bluetooth speaker and put it out in front of you!! Might work.