Don't Toss The Hand Calls Yet
Montana Hunting & Fishing News|February 2017

The phrase “out with the old and in with the new” has a questionable origin dealing with a new mistress according to historic chronicles.

Mark Kayser
Don't Toss The Hand Calls Yet

Set that image aside since the phrase also has relevance for predator hunters with the digital explosion in calling. Out with the old corresponds with predator hunters ditching their hand calls. In with the new obviously applies to the reliance on electronic callers. New is nice and there’s no reason to ignore the numerous benefits of an electronic caller to boost your predator hunting success. Nevertheless, should you mothball your hand calls when employing the AA battery alternative?

You can’t ignore the benefits of new electronic callers. First, they provide you with hundreds of sounds to entice predators of varying species. You can call all season and never use the same sound twice. That’s beneficial when calling to educated predators, especially those that have been targeted during coyote calling contests.

There’s also the ability to boost volume to throw sound across miles of real estate. And when those Montana winds whip up (and you know they will) you can simply turn up the volume to rise above the ruckus. Finally, you’ll be hard pressed to scare off a predator using an electronic caller. Their pitch-perfect sounds mimic exactly the sounds needed to fool even the cagiest of predator ears, especially if you are not musically inclined.

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