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06-30-2005, 12:35 PM
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Calls for squirrels?
I spotted a huntin' program in the wee hours last night in which they were using squirrel calls. Anybody actually use them? My great grandfather taught me to bark like a squirrel when I was a kid, but it isn't really to call them, it is more just to tick off the males so they will bark back.
GoodOlBoy
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07-01-2005, 09:45 AM
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I do know that I have seen 'em get mad enough to spit nails. They go to barkin and shakin' that tail like there is no tomorrow.
GoodOlBoy
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(Moderator - Gear & Gadgets, Cowboy Action, SouthWest Regional, Small Game) GoodOlBoy@huntchat.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 KJV Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 8:15 KJV "The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." - 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan 1911-2004
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07-01-2005, 09:56 AM
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You will always have a few "punks" that bark furiously,but refuse to come any closer.
 The funniest thing I ever saw involving a squirrel,was during a blackpowder hunt a few years ago.I was up a tree and two squirrels got into it below me tree.After the fight,the loser hopped away,letting out a little grunt every time he hopped.He would look back at the other squirrel and curse.True story. I use my mouth to call them.
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#6
07-09-2005, 06:17 PM
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I have a couple of squirrel calls. The type you bump on your hand or gunstock and it sounds like one barking and then you can also blow into the other end and it sounds like a small one in distress. I've not had a lot of luck with them though. I made a call out of two pop cicle sticks and a rubber band a couple of years ago and tried it coyote hunting. The squirrels came running to it, but no coyotes. Tried it last year squirrel hunting, and nothing. I guess sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't. I've heard of guys using two quarters to sound like one knawing on hickory nuts, but never have tried that.
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#7
07-29-2005, 12:03 PM
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The best one on the market is Knight and Hale.
Come to think of it, the only one I would ever buy again is Knight and Hale.  Calls like the Lohman only produce a bark. K&H produces a bark and whine. It also has some type of whine meant to be a mating call - but I half*** it and make only a whine and no bark. It's great - I like it.
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