Thread: A new crop of wildlife...

Originally Posted by RetiredRR

Did a lot of varmint calling with Wayne Weems, maker of the Weems varmint calls and he would call fox, coyote and have a string of deer following us down a gravel road
back in the day when he was the world champion varmint caller. The fox bark is strange for sure. We have set in ground blinds and he would call in deer sounding like a
fawn in distress. The deer would tear up brush and small trees trying to find the fawn. Got spooky several times. Wasn't hunting, we just went calling with him for practice.

Well I would guess that you remember when the small record players came out with varmint calls on them and there was a loud speaker. The thing could plug into a cigarette lighter in the cars. A friend had one and we would go out on a country road around our home town and turn that thing on and after a few minutes we would hit the spot light to see what all came. It was amazing to see and a good many came to see for sure. I think we had the record of a rabbit squeezing in distress. I never hunted with one so was more just fun for us, but these days I am sure the law wouldn't appreciate that, lol!

Skip

Yep Skip, seen the various types of callers but never invested in one. Once you learned to use the hand held caller, the hollow ball point pen tube and plastic candy wrappers, the
thrill is more gratifying than the electronic callers. Some would say, it's just the way I roll. LOL

Originally Posted by RetiredRR

Yep Skip, seen the various types of callers but never invested in one. Once you learned to use the hand held caller, the hollow ball point pen tube and plastic candy wrappers, the
thrill is more gratifying than the electronic callers. Some would say, it's just the way I roll. LOL

yes all true and if we were actually hunting we wouldn't have used that. Actually never did and just used it for kicks and would just pull over on the side of a road and turn it on to see what all would show up. Once we used a rabbit to call in what ever would come, but it was a live rabbit and the guy held his ears and shook him a little and he would squeal, lol!
The guy that owned it had more money than he could use so it was a play thing. However he did have a crow calling record and that worked as well. They showed a picture of a guy on a wagon full of dead crows he killed by using that record player, lol!

Skip

Originally Posted by skiptomylu

yes all true and if we were actually hunting we wouldn't have used that. Actually never did and just used it for kicks and would just pull over on the side of a road and turn it on to see what all would show up. Once we used a rabbit to call in what ever would come, but it was a live rabbit and the guy held his ears and shook him a little and he would squeal, lol!
The guy that owned it had more money than he could use so it was a play thing. However he did have a crow calling record and that worked as well. They showed a picture of a guy on a wagon full of dead crows he killed by using that record player, lol!

Skip

Never thought about using a real rabbit. When your young, your limited only by your imagination.

That family of greys is very cool , tells me you are lacking in coyotes for sure ....lots a twin fawns says the same .....very nice photos ......

Not sure how many we have, but they are here. Have caught several pair on different cameras plus a couple of dog packs I've got to scare off.

Interesting , foxes don't tend to do well around Yotes as well as twin fawns .....stay on them dogs and keep your good stuff around , must be doing something right ....you feed protein ? We used to gets lots of greys on camera when we did down by brownwood

Feed just apple flavored corn and seems like skunks, possums, rabbits, squirrels, armadillos, crows, owls, coyotes, fox, deer and turkey are showing up in front of the cameras. Was given permission to use the front end loader to dispose of the feral dog packs. Only one hog has been seen but it runs with a herd of cattle and have never seen more than
that one. The land owner ask me to do whatever is necessary to manage the wildlife and I'm trying to oblige him. Prepared to eliminate that one hog the next time I see it.
Just hope I see him before he sees me.