We need to get a little contest going now that the hunting season is here. The first 4 people to sign up in this thread that say that they want to enter the contest will be the folks that get to participate. It is a contest to see who can post a picture and story of a dead coyote, fox or bobcat called in using one of the calls posted below. This contest will benefit the FnF Bank. Each person to sign up will pick a call from the list below when you sign up. I will send the calls out in the mail on the same day to all of the participants to keep things fair. I can ship to Canada, but can't promise when the call will arrive. The participants will get to keep the calls once the contest is over.
Once the calls arrive to the contestants home, the first person to post his/her picture taken with a dead predator and the call in his/her hand will get the call for free. The second person to post his/her picture taken with a dead predator and the call in his/her hand will donate $10 to the FnF Bank. The third person to post his/her picture taken with a dead predator and the call in his/her hand will donate $20 to the FnF Bank. The fourth person to post his/her picture taken with a dead predator and the call in his/her hand will donate $30 to the FnF Bank. The contest will run until the 3rd person posts a dead critter. But the 4th person can still post a picture of their animal just to prove that they didn't get skunked.
The calls are all made by me. The toneboards are of my design, and all of these calls sound very similar. I free hand the toneboard arc on each call, so no two calls are ever exactly alike. The toneboards are about as custom as custom can get. The toneboards are designed to be loud if you want to, but also get as quiet as you need as well. There shouldn't be any pitch breaks in them as well and they have a range from a fawl bawl to a high pitch female howl. I've tried to get the correct backpressure built into them, so that the sounds easily come out of the calls and you won't be out of breath after a few series of the bunny blues. Hunter grade calls that aren't too shiny and spook game.
Calls 1-4 from left to right
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Each toneboard is numbered 1 though 4 as well.
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If you wish to participate in the contest and accept the terms, please indicate so in your post and which call you would like. And send me your name and address in a pm so I can send the call to you. I will make a post on the day that I ship out all of the calls. I'll ship them Priority Mail with tracking and delivery confirmation.
Post the pictures of the contest entries in this thread so that the order of the entries can be tracked accordingly.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Enjoy!
Brian
Sign me up
I will take call #1
Well heck, I'll jump on call number two while everybody is busy sleeping :innocentwhistle: If this is the only way to get one of your calls I'll do it :biggrin:
Steve
I would love to do this but I'm sure I could just as well send $30 first, then enter. :roflmao: I'm still an amateur caller and not contest material. :innocentwhistle: :biggrin: Very nice calls.
I applied to enter about ten minutes ago and am having second thoughts. We have a lot of coyotes in my part of the world, so it's not really a level contest with anyone who enters from areas where they don't. If you will allow me I will withdraw my entry in hopes that some younger and newer coyote hunter will enter and get such a nice call. I can send in my loser's money without complicating the contest. :laf: Great contest idea BigB, and thank you for doing it.
Okay, I'm in. I'll take #3 and I'll just go ahead and send the thirty bucks now. Thanks Brian.
Pat
Hey good thinking Pat...if everybody else just sends in their $30 now I can win by default right? Just a thought, I'll be getting my money out too :eyebrownod:
So how many are left, I cant find my calculator :innocentwhistle: :roflmao:
Bill's got call #1
Steve's got call #2
Pat's got call #3
So, there's still one available for whomever wants it.
Somebody, anybody, ???
How about you BigB :innocentwhistle:. You could have a head start with the delivery date :laf:
Hey, I'm trying to restrain myself here since I'm lucky enough to own a few of your calls. :innocentwhistle:
After further consideration I shall unrestrain myself and take call LUCKY NUMBER 4. Purely altruistic, to keep from holding up the contest you know, not that I am drooling to have such a beautiful call.
Golly I wish the call was here. I am hankering to cross the hump to the dry side and go after a mule deer on Saturday, where we shoo coyotes off from around our legs. I prolly won't get back to that part of the world till after Christmas so all of youse 1 through 3 will have an unconscionable head start. Let the games begin! Drivers, start your engines! On your mark, set,...
After all this I prolly won't get a coyote to come in this whole winter. :roflmao:
Thanks to all of the contestants. I really didn't think that we'd have a competition for last place! :roflmao: Maybe we should up the cost for last place the next time that I hold the contest. :readthis:
I'll get the calls packed up and get the shipping slips filled out tomorrow. They should be going out in Saturday's mail.
Good luck to all of the contestants.
Brian
Anyone care for side bets or a 50/50 type of thingy.
BigB Thanks for the contest :yoyo:
Barry The last time I won a bet Ronald Regan was running for President of the USA and I bet he would win but I placed that bet with a Demarcrat :laf: so ya see I only bet on a sure thing :laf: :roflmao: :roflmao:
:whew: I am glad he done that :whew: I got so much going on I just would not do the contest justice ....Good luck fellas Give a good effort and no matter what happens....have fun ! :yoyo: :yoyo: :highclap: :highclap: :highclap:
I am getting the itch to go...... But I cant yet.... :pout:
Wonderful calls BigB Thank You for doing this...... :highclap: :highclap: :highclap:
Hey Brian,
Just wanted to say the calls look great. Sounds like a great a contest.
The calls are starting to arrive at their new homes today, so the contest ought to be getting good shortly.
Brian
Yep I Got mine today Might just go for a walk with it this evening yet
Thanks B
Dang it...I must have got a retarded mailman, I haven't got mine yet :rolleye:
Doggone! Mine got sent to a different country from where I live. Talk about losing your luggage! :biggrin:
Actually, that was on purpose due to international protocols of foreign trade treaties probably too obtuse for coyote hunters to fathom, at least it is for this one. I'll go through border security check points Sat. in hopes of bringing this exotic foreign baby home.
No sign of mine yet; hopefully it will get here today.
Pat
Quote from: Okanagan on December 10, 2009, 11:01:14 PM
Doggone! Mine got sent to a different country from where I live. Talk about losing your luggage! :biggrin:
Actually, that was on purpose due to international protocols of foreign trade treaties probably too obtuse for coyote hunters to fathom, at least it is for this one. I'll go through border security check points Sat. in hopes of bringing this exotic foreign baby home.
I can understnad that. A few years ago I sent two (2) cartons of smokes to a couple friends of mine that live in Fort McMurray. They were a gift in celebration of our very close to the same date birthdays. Not 3 days after I sent them I got a phone call from some customs official and he had all kids of questions. I told him that htey were gifts and he told me that sense they were a gift ok but
do not do it again Trust me I wont. :eyebrow:
Offbeat border tale:
Several years ago, before 9/11, I designed and had an electrical engineer friend help me build a remote electronic caller, before I knew anyone had thought of such an item, let alone sell them. It was in the trunk of our car when my wife and visiting adult daughter went across the line to Christmas shop. I got a phone call from an exasperated wife who was being held in US customs and security while they examined and decided what to do with the remote controlled electronic device.
They asked her what it was and she said that her husband used it to call mountain lions.
Oh.
Her answer was so outlandish that they believed her. They let her keep it and let her go.
My call arrived yesterday. It's even nicer than it looks in the pictures. I'm anxious to get out and give it a try. Deer season is still open for a while, but pretty soon its all predators, all the time. Thanks again BigB.
Pat
I'm curious to see if you would get away with that nowadays Okanagan...
I got my call yetsreday too...Thanks Brian. I should have had it out with me deer hunting this morning. Coyote tracks everywhere!. I'm heading back out to the deer woods now after some lunch. I think I'll take it with me in case I get bored :eyebrow:
Good luck everybody!!
Steve
I took my call to the woods today
Sounds great
Wonderful Job B
Got the call. Niiiice! Thanks for the "invoice" Brian.
Sure wish I could go hunting with the call today!
I think that tomorrow I will finally have a chance to get out and try to win this call. Good luck fellas.
Pat
Quote from: coyote101 on January 01, 2010, 09:15:22 AM
I think that tomorrow I will finally have a chance to get out and try to win this call. Good luck fellas.
Pat
Good luck!
I can't believe this contest hasn't been finished up by now!! Good Luck Pat!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
Go Get em Pat :yoyo:
I got kind of a late start this morning. The temperature was in the teens, I didn't get out of bed until after six-thirty, and I just wasn't in a hurry. I finally left the house about eight o'clock and drove the few miles to one of the farms I hunt. I took the shotgun and Dead Coyote loads and my BigB call.
I set up a couple of yards inside the wood line looking across the narrow end of an empty soybean field. There was a light dusting of snow, I had the wind in my face and a river just a few yards to my back. I was hoping to call something to the edge of the woods on the other side of the field. It is a shade under fifty yards across so I figured it would still be within range of my rig. I sat on one of those three legged stools with my back against a tree and my gun rested on my shooting stick and cut loose on that call.
I did a series of three short blasts of the most pitiful sound I could make (and which I'm certain sounded like nothing that actually exists in nature) and lowered the call. Almost instantly a coyote came from out of the wood line across the field on a beeline for me. She stopped at seventeen paces form where I sat, paused for a second and ........................................... I gave her a face full of T-shot. The whole thing lasted thirty seconds or less. I did my best imitation of a hurt dog on my call and waited a few more minutes, but nothing else showed up.
I did a couple of more stands with no luck, so I called it quits for the morning. I may go try another location this afternoon to see if my new year's luck is going to hold out.
Many thanks to BigB for the great new call.
Pat
The view from my position. She is actually laying dead just into the field, but the view is obstucted by the gun barrel.
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My first coyote of 2010 with the Mossberg 835 and BigB call.
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Another shot of her with my new favorite call.
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Hero shots
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First blood !!!!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
Congratulations to ya Pat ! :congrats: :congrats:
(I'm glad all the hunts aren't that tough !! :biggrin:)
:yoyo: :yoyo: Pat's new video is called "The 30 Second Coyote"!! :eyebrownod: :eyebrownod:
Congratulations Pat!! :yoyo: Nice lookin dog!! :yoyo:
Congratulations, Pat! :congrats:
That's the way to do it!!!
BTW, NICE HAT!!!
Right on Pat :yoyo: :yoyo: Love the story and the instant response tells me you sure picked the right place to set up :wink:.
Congrats pat. Gotta Love it when plan comes tegether.
Way to go man! Nice Coyote too. Its probably a good thing I paid the $30 for my call already, I'm still going out to try some more though.
Steve
Nice Job and Congrats on the Hunt :congrats: :congrats:
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaang PAT! Didnt waste any time on that stand did ya?
Beautiful :highclap:
By the way Pat dumped his thirty bucks into the FnF Bank (http://forum.finsandfur.net/index.php?topic=3026.0) shortly after the contest began. Regardless of the "First Blood = Free Call" arrangement.
:yoyo:
Nice work Pat.
Nice Job Pat :yoyo:
Good job Pat !!! :highclap:
WAY TO GO PAT !!! :congrats: :congrats: Nice lookin coyote. And good job with the shotgun. :yoyo:
ALRIGHT PAT!!!!!!!! WTG!!!!! :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats:
Way to light a fire under em...... This aint over fellers....we still want to see the rest of ya score..... :eyebrownod: Wouldnt that be nice.... :eyebrownod: :eyebrownod: :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo:
Way to go, Pat!
It's been a good day for BigB's calls. I killed one today with his call, at 11:50 Pacific time, a civilized hour. :wink:
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23 minutes, 30-35 yard shot, .243 with 95 grain Nosler Partition bullet. Remington 600 Mohawk carbine with 2-7 Bushnell 3200 Elite scope. I saw him coming at 150 yards and he had to go down out of sight and up as he crossed some little ravines so I dialed up the scope to 4 power and was locked on him unmoving when he paused on the nearest little ridge. I used a walking stick as a steady.
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Lots of black on this one. Small coyote, male, rolling in fat when I skinned him. Prime pelt though these dark ones tend to have coarser fur.
What I could see from my stand. He was in the sage about ten feet up to the left from the dark stump just right of center.
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WTG!!!!!
Next...... :corn:
:yoyo: :yoyo: Cool deal!! Another GOOD coyote posing for the hero shot!! :yoyo:
:wo: I'm thinking there's a new Pro Staff starting up!! It's the BigB Pro Staff!!! :laf: :laf:
Congratulations! I like that terrain. Thanks for those pics. :congrats:
Congratulations Okanagan! :congrats: :congrats: Nice loooking coyote and I love the snow camo. :yoyo: :yoyo: Man, the terrain is beautiful out there.
Pat
Thats cool fellas and Pat thats a nice set up ya have there. :biggrin:
Congrats Pat and Clyde!!! I'm glad you guys got to get some fur down! This has been a fun little contest so far!
Brian
Congrats Clyde
I have been out just haven't had any takers yet
That is perfect Okanagan :congrats:. I'm trying to get some darker coyotes for an order.
Congrats Clyde...I suppose I should take my call for a walk today. These guys are making us look bad Bill :huh:
Another nice one ! :yoyo:
Congrats. :congrats:
Great pictures and it looks like the calls are working very well. I think we may need to start calling Okanagan "the Sheik".
Jerry
Quote from: Hawks Feather on January 03, 2010, 10:10:30 AM
Great pictures and it looks like the calls are working very well. I think we may need to start calling Okanagan "the Sheik".
Jerry
It's a TallyBan thing, the latest in predator calling haute couture!
I lost my white head net a few days ago so cobbled up one yesterday morning out a piece of fabric from WalMart. It has light copper wire struck through the fabric edges around the eye hole and the fabric draped over my head and cap. It needs a little more finishing work! :biggrin: I make my face camo with long fabric in front hanging down and I blow the call with my hand and call under the cloth so no hand movement shows. The mouth hole is for breathing so it does not fog up my glasses so much.
Pitw can tell by looking that I went east over the mountains to dry snow and lots of coyotes. I'd called 8 stands in soggy snow near home, five of them in pouring rain on snow, two in falling slushy snow, and only one in reasonably dry conditions. In all that time I never saw a coyote track in the snow. Yesterday I drove east till it quit raining (2 1/2 hours), kept driving till the snow was dry and shallow and called a coyote the first stand there. Where I live has few coyotes in thick wet forest and brush, but with 3 hours driving east over the mountains, I can be in country similar to Wyoming.
Quote from: Okanagan on January 03, 2010, 11:37:05 AM
Pitw can tell by looking that I went east over the mountains to dry snow and lots of coyotes.
Yeah it looks just like home :iroll:.
Kudo's Okanagan :yoyo:
"the latest in predator calling haute couture!"?....for real? :laf:
Thats an awesome colored coyote that's for sure. Congrats on numero 2 :yoyo:
I want on that headnet ProStaff!!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
:roflmao: :roflmao:
Whatever works & apparently it worked rather well for you. Again,, Congratulations!! :congrats: :congrats:
Coyote101, your coyote came in so fast that it must have been well within hearing range when you set up and sat down. How did you approach your spot? Through the open field, slip in from the river side...? You must have been pretty quiet, and I'd guess that even then the coyote heard you and was listening, curious as to what you were and what was going on. So your first note of distress answered it's question and launched it toward you.
That is really fast to have one so close. I can only remember one that fast and I knew the coyote was nearby before I called. My elk hunting partner saw it cross a road a couple of hundred yards from us as we were glassing peaks on a sleepy afternoon. I slipped into the timber on the side the coyote entered, went less than 30 yards and when I came to a living room sized open I sat down and did a soft moan on my call. The coyote must have been coming our way because he was inside of 30 feet within seconds. I was back at the road with a dead coyote less than 2 minutes after leaving. My partner, who had never called coyotes, asked, "How did you do that?" He hadn't heard the soft moan from the call, only the shot.
FWIW I use a three legged stool also, with adjustable leg length and height, but it set me too high in the low sage yesterday. I flattened my almost empty day pack on the snow, laid my closed cell pad on it and sat on it to keep my rear out of the snow. That put me at ground level, with only my head sticking out above the sage.
Okanagan,
My truck was parked where the yellow square is at the bottom of the picture. I walked in along the tree line to where I set up at the green dot. The wind was steady out of the NW at four or five MPH. I moved as quietly as possible, but it was near 20 degrees so the leaves and ground were kind of crunchy, and I was far from silent. The coyote came out of the woodline about where the red dot is. It is only about fifty or fifty five yards from where I was to where she came out of the woods. It happened pretty fast, but I'm not complaining.
Pat
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Quote from: pitw on January 03, 2010, 12:58:25 PM
Yeah it looks just like home :iroll:.
pitw, tilt the picture till the ground is level and get rid of the mountain side background with photoshop. Voila! Just like home! :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
Pat, thanks for the details. I'm always trying to figure out critters. With the noisy frozen leaves, if the coyote was on the move in the timber hunting for itself, which is likely, it would be making noise enough to maybe keep it from hearing you. Sounds we make ourselves are close to our ears and drown out more distant sounds. That is especially true when animals are feeding because the sounds, even small ones, are so close to the ears. It can't hear sounds of us sneaking in as well while it is crunching food, or even sniffing along through crunchy leaves, etc.
Anyway, you did super. You have Ninja stealth to get that close to the critter without spooking it before you called. Excellent stand all the way! Interesting that both of our coyotes were within shotgun range.
Is the traffic on the highway noisy?? I have a spot near the house that is not far from the Interstate and the the traffic is so noisy, I don't hunt it much.
Jim
Hunt it when the leaves are off & use it for a backstop to your position Jim.
Quote from: Frogman on January 04, 2010, 12:45:46 PM
Is the traffic on the highway noisy?? I have a spot near the house that is not far from the Interstate and the the traffic is so noisy, I don't hunt it much.
Jim
That is just a part of the bypass around town. The traffic is usually pretty light and with the wind from the west the noise is really not an issue.
Pat
Pat, don't tell them that the secret to getting close is the hat. :biggrin: We'll keep that to ourselves. :wink:
Quote from: Semp on January 05, 2010, 09:46:57 AM
Pat, don't tell them that the secret to getting close is the hat. :biggrin: We'll keep that to ourselves. :wink:
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17 step hat. 30 step hat.
:roflmao: :roflmao:
good job :bowingsmilie:
So who is paying what for this contest? I've enjoyed the heck out of it to this point and want to enjoy just one or two more barbs :biggrin:.
Okanagan said: "I'd called 8 stands in soggy snow near home, five of them in pouring rain on snow, two in falling slushy snow,"
That's why God made TV's, easy chairs and cold beer. However if'n you should ever decide you want to sell that 600 I would like a crack at it.
Frogman said: "I have a spot near the house that is not far from the Interstate and the the traffic is so noisy, I don't hunt it much."
You may be missing out on a great place to kill some coyotes. One morning many years ago as I was pulling off a hardtop road into a hunting area I noticed a dead jack on the roadside. Paid no attention to it and continued on my way another mile of two and started calling with no critters in sight. Made a few more stands without any success. On the way out I noticed that the jack had disappeared. Parked the truck, walked about 50 yards from the roadway and started on jack distress. With a few minutes I had a coyote on the ground. I have made it a point to call close to well used roads using distress sounds and have been pretty successful at it.
Congratulations to both you guys, job well done.
John P I have to agree with hunting close to a highway. It could be different other places but here I call a lot within a 1/4 mile of our highway[no where near the traffic you guys have I'd guess] and it's a great spot. Coyotes[and deer] have trails along the highway just out of sight and are so used to the traffic they don't even look over unless a vehicle slows down. The highway is like a smorgasbord for coyotes with road kill, sandwiches, tossed out town cats and other goodies to numerous to mention.
I am taking my call to the LBL and hopefully get a pic of it with a dead coyote :shrug:
Jim a few years ago I was driving up I 77 just south of Parkersbug and seen a pair of coyotes laying inside the gaurdrail watching over the Holler and sunning themselves.They never even looked at the road as traffic went passed
If you put the window down on the hi-way & blow that call Bill I'm gonna use the window control on my side to keep your head out there!! :roflmao: :roflmao:
Where can I get one of these calls they look great and I bet they sound as good as they look.
Quote from: clynn on February 24, 2010, 10:06:56 AM
Where can I get one of these calls they look great and I bet they sound as good as they look.
The experts below thought so.
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Quote from: clynn on February 24, 2010, 10:06:56 AM
Where can I get one of these calls they look great and I bet they sound as good as they look.
Welcome to FnF, clynn. :wink:
Quote from: Okanagan on February 24, 2010, 10:50:09 AM
Quote from: clynn on February 24, 2010, 10:06:56 AM
Where can I get one of these calls they look great and I bet they sound as good as they look.
The experts below thought so.
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Them are the ones who judge a call for a fact :innocentwhistle:.. Good post Okanagan.
Thanks semp
Yes, clynn, welcome aboard! :congrats: I'd say you were in good company here on this site but my momma told me to always tell the truth. :biggrin:
I'm surprised that BigB has not chimed in. He made these calls and made the first post in this thread so I'd assume if you contact him you could find out if he sells them and would make one for you, etc.
Thanks okanagan, I will check out his website for an email address or phone number, and will continue to watch this post for him.