I hear alot of talk that bird distress is very good on alot of critters, I don't use them much and maybe I should.
Who uses bird distress on their set-ups and how well do they work??
I run allot of bird distress. Some kind of bird distress on about every stand. It has worked well for us about anywere we have hunted.
Brent
I have used them while bored to attract bluejays and stuff, never ran it awhile to see what happens. I will try it more I guess.
If I am blowing distress sounds on a stand. I open the stand almost 90% of the time with soft bird distress. Then after a few min I get on the call hard. I will switch up hand calls and run different bird distress as well.
Brent
cool. I gotta practice with some of my open reeds. Right now I am using the E_caller and am just thinking of how I will approach next fall.
other than expand my territories!!!!!
and get a tree climber and a GOOD gps.
I am certainly no expert....heck, I never was even a spert....but, I use bird distress frequently. I many times mix it with other distress sounds...I know it sounds funny, but it has worked well for me. I will post a link to some of the sounds I use. This is not a calling sequence, but rather a demo of a specific call, and some of the sounds I use...
I am hesitant to post this, as I am sure there are much better callers here than I, but I can at least show you some of the sounds I have used sucessfully here in Arkansas...
http://www.arkyyoter.net/Sounds/T.U.C..wav
Sounds great to me Joe!
And mixing the bird distress in with you other sounds don't sound a bit strange to me, we do it all the time as well.
Brent
they are killer on fox. I use more bird distress around my area mainly because the bawling bunny blues are so played out it isn't worth it. as far as coyote I am new at em and just try a couple different things with em. I still use rabbit distress but the only time is pretty much the first two months after that it is hard to keep a red from going downwind while using rabbit distr.
And you call yourselves men - HA -
I can see it now, just like the scene in Jeremiah Johnson when the great hunter comes back and drops a single scrawny rabbit in the Indian squaw's pot -
No self respecting eastern alpha coyote is goinna eat a bird.
He wants something with FUR and FLESH - not a mouth full of feathers -
I say give your bird calls to the Audubon Society and get a mans call. Something that makes them HUNGRY - makes their MOUTH WATER - makes 'em DROOL -
But that's just me, I don't even like chicken :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
AL
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How can you NOT like chicken? :wo:
well all I am saying is everyone says bird distress are the best, so I thought I would try to learn more.
As I said, I wanna try different tactics this fall.
some different sounds
hunting from above
More locations
Quote from: THO Game Calls on July 06, 2007, 03:25:16 PM
But that's just me, I don't even like chicken :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
AL
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Don't quite know what to think of a man that don't eat chicken....... :huh: :wo:
You ain't one of them veggie-tarian type fellers........is ya? :laf:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Plumbrich/Smileys/EmoticonCatchHen.gif)
Easy with that Chicken Rich........ :innocentwhistle:
CCP,
I thought Colonel Sanders was taller than that.
Jerry
CCP,
I thought Colonel Sanders was taller than that.
Jerry
Anybody hear an echo? :biggrin:
Yerry's stuttering again :rolleye:
:roflmao: I get to laugh at somebody else now! :roflmao:
:holdon: Sorry Jerry!!!!!!!! :eyebrownod: :laf: :laf:
I like to use the Johnny Stewart Yellowhammer Woodpecker sound quite a bit. It's brought in more than a few coyotes so that I can introduce them to my 223. MI VHNTR
Quote from: browning204 on July 06, 2007, 07:52:06 PM
How can you NOT like chicken? :wo:
Have you seen WHAT the Chickens eat ??? But I did work in a Slaughter House when I got out of High School and
IF you guys seen what goes on there you may not eat a LOT of things !!! :biggrin:
Bob
Hey Bob-- Once you get past the fact that chickens eat with their peckers you'll do just fine with a plate of it in front of ya!! :wink:
:roflmao:
Does that mean that if I eat chicken I'm.......oh my GOD
GAY?????
Al
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I guess as long as you don't eat their pecker you will be ok.
Some things are just wrong. I might not be able to look at a chicken again like I have before. But then I only eat HEN chickens, so I guess I am O.K.
Jerry
:roflmao:
QuoteI guess as long as you don't eat their pecker you will be ok
I was going to say I left myself wide open for that one, but figured one of you guys would surely take it the wrong way :argh:
Al
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Chickens and peckers! Bwaaaa!!!! You guys are killin' me! :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
I like to open a lot of stands with an aggressive fox bark, red or grey, and go into a distressed woodpecker sound. I have some sequences that work like that on the ecaller, and I do the same thing with mouth calls. I find it works well for fox and coyote, and had both a gray fox and two coyotes respond at the same time on one stand a few years back. Another sound that has worked well for me is a combination of fox and distressed bird. You have about as good a chance of getting either foxes or coyotes respond with any of these methods. I would say that I have had grey foxes respond more, as they are far more aggressive than reds. Like KeeKee, in extremely cold weather with little wind, I find that bird distress at low volume can be heard a really long way by both fox and coyote.
Quote from: THO Game Calls on July 09, 2007, 04:29:09 PM
QuoteI guess as long as you don't eat their pecker you will be ok
I was going to say I left myself wide open for that one, but figured one of you guys would surely take it the wrong way :argh:
Al
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You know that you gotta be carefull around here!!!
Hey - I think this guy PossumAl is off topic :roflmao:
(Good post though)
Al
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Quote from: THO Game Calls on July 09, 2007, 09:59:03 PM
Hey - I think this guy PossumAl is off topic :roflmao:
(Good post though)
Al
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THO Al: You got that right about being off topic, but we are so nutty "Over here" that I can't concentrate! :roflmao:
I am going to try it out soon,,I got a FREE Cat Killer call in the mail a few days ago,,the guy makes them in S. Africa and he had his acting agent ( Shipping nightmare from Africa) send me 1 free,,he kept telling me that it is EASY to work this call,,well I got the call and started blowing/rolling my tongue and it worked GREAT,,he didnt lie because this thing sounds great,,I wish I could describe it,,each one is hand made by this guy and it looks JUST LIKE a Bone that has laid in the Sun for a long time,,I really cant wait to try it :yoyo:
Bob
So that is the guy that found the mass grave. :innocentwhistle:
Jerry
Damn,,could be,,I mean after all it is the AVG length of a :shock2: :sad2: oh GOD ! I will NEVER put that thing anywhere NEAR my mouth again :puke: :puke:!!! :laf: Jerry,,now I am scarred for life :shck:
Bob
:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
I to use lots of bird sounds.. with a woodpecker being one of my favored ones.
I feel bird get quiet in the dark, distressed or not so I keep these sound to daylight hours only
I am known for staying on stand for long periods of time and lots of time bird distress will be all I use.
working it soft and slow for long periods with a fu loud and frantic times thrown in every now and then .
So would that sequence you use be something like...... :wo: ..... tweet....tweet.....tweet.....tweet.....FU! FU! FU! ..... tweet....tweet....tweet..... :shck:
^^^^^^^Stu is killing me.......... :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's pretty much what my ex says...... though she doesn't generally laugh while she says it...... just one of those days...sorry.
Back here we use some crow calls along with other distress sounds. We have a lot of magpies and crows in the river breaks. Sometimes that' the ticket. If you have ever noticed when your out calling how the crows and magpies come in. They also give a coyote away if you watch the birds as sometimes they hover over an ole coyote . Lord knows what goes on in a coyotes mind. Some of the weirdest sounds will bring a coyote to the caller. You pick up a lot from talking to different callers in the way they do their calling and sounds they produce. Pretty interesting. Just when you think you have mastered somthing, someone else comes up with a new sound. You wonder how long it will take before we produce a super coyote uncallable. :iroll:
Crows will also give you away on stand. They have incredible eye sight and they see color. They can bust you faster than a down wind coyote any day of the week.
When I am just out sniping crows with the 17 HMR, I will sometimes play a distress sound because it brings them in and they sit in a tree trying to find out where the meal is going to be.
Bill G and I are working on a little project that might be of use to some of you who use woodpeker sounds. I wont say anymore, but I think you are going to like it :)
Al
I am going to try posting a link to a bird distress recording I made with a little "split sticks" call . I used a thin strip of plastic beween he sticks for a reed. The twitter comes from trilling my tounge on roof of my mouth. http://www.cronkpredatorcalls.com/sounds/coonSpecial.mp3
Durn you Rich, you have done it again! That sounds like old Tweety with Sylvester after him. Great sound! :highclap: :bowingsmilie: