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A piece of calling history. #6481831
03/05/19 06:14 PM
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Found these in a box of stuff my dad gave me. I know I have parts of the call these went with but who knows where it is. How many of you used these?

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Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: Mocular] #6481848
03/05/19 06:25 PM
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I still have about a dozen of them and the home made caller they run in mounted in a army ammo can.


Providing wild fur to the industry at below the cost of production for over 50 years.

Mostly carbon neutral since 1948.

Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: nt2] #6481852
03/05/19 06:28 PM
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I have about 20 different tapes still but the battery on my caller went bad years ago.


A long hair country boy can survive
Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: Mocular] #6481855
03/05/19 06:29 PM
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brings back some memories for sure.my J.Stewart call that i used got ran over by me after shootin my first quad on greys.dads is on the wall and is like brand new.









Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: Mocular] #6481862
03/05/19 06:34 PM
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perry co.Pa
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Gray fox pup in distress was and is the holey grail of gray fox calls.
I wish I could find it in a downloadable format for my phone
Yes I call with my phone and a Bluetooth speaker

Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: Mocular] #6481866
03/05/19 06:36 PM
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man the stories i could tell about them greys at night.









Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: Mocular] #6481868
03/05/19 06:37 PM
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fayette,al.
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Iv got a couple somewhere

Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: pcr2] #6481870
03/05/19 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by pcr2
man the stories i could tell about them greys at night.

Do you remember the first time you called on in using a red light?
I kinda thought it was a little creepy, I missed. Lol

Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: Mocular] #6481871
03/05/19 06:41 PM
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i missed 3 times and went back the next day and realized they were close to a hundred yards away.









Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: Mocular] #6481893
03/05/19 06:57 PM
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Still have some of them myself. Used to love the Johnny Stewart.


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Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: Mocular] #6481915
03/05/19 07:24 PM
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Used both those sounds in cassette format many times, still prefer Stewart's sounds to all others... I was fortunate to call with Gerald Stewart, and field test "Crow Reveille" and "Crow Duet" plus a couple other sounds that didn't make the cut.

Good Times!


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Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: Mocular] #6481925
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Does anyone remember the Johnny Steward record player caller?

Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: Mocular] #6481970
03/05/19 08:12 PM
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One of my buddies had the record player, it worked fine if you could afford the batteries. Seemed like it held about a hundred D sized batteries,lol . The batteries for the cassette player lasted longer than the record player . My first was the Burnhum brothers cassette player with a motorcycle battery, thing weighed a ton but we killed a lot of coyotes with that thing and a grey fox pup in distress tape .

Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: Mocular] #6481998
03/05/19 08:27 PM
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Burnham Bros was my tapes of choice. All we used in mid 70's. Killed 52 grey foxes one year calling and watching the dens right before dark. Pretty good money for a 14 year old kid. Got between 40- 50 bucks a piece for greys back then !!!!! Oh the days. NO yotes around here then. Very few reds. Killed one red watching a den that came walking thru the woods that year.

Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: Tim64] #6482001
03/05/19 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Tim64
Does anyone remember the Johnny Steward record player caller?

buddy has one i'm gonna grab someday as he said i could have it.speaker the size you'd put on top of a car for a pa system.









Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: Mocular] #6482004
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I had a cassette tape player with a plug in external speaker. Glued the speaker to the part where the factory speaker was. Had a back pack that I carried a rechargeable 12 volt battery in. Had a 100,000 candle power spot light with a red lens. Walked or road a bicycle everywhere I went. Killed 3 greys at one stand one night and hid them beside the road and road back home and had my dad drive back and pick them up.

Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: jbyrd63] #6482008
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Got a Johnny Stewart caller, and used to pound the bejesus out of crows with the crow and owl fight and the crow distress tapes.

Zim

Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: Tim64] #6482068
03/05/19 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Tim64
Does anyone remember the Johnny Steward record player caller?

There was 2 of them...The electri-caller was the first, and had a sheet metal case.

The model 400 was a later record player with a plastic case....We used to prop the lids with a dowel or stick because the records were only about 5 mins in length, and you had to reset the stylus (needle).


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Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: Zim] #6482074
03/05/19 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Zim
Got a Johnny Stewart caller, and used to pound the bejesus out of crows with the crow and owl fight and the crow distress tapes.

Zim

I get mine out in the backyard once in awhile to mess with the crows. They start landing on the roofs of the neighbors houses and in the trees. Causes quite a ruckus in the neighborhood.😁

Re: A piece of calling history. [Re: wetdog] #6482077
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Originally Posted by wetdog
Gray fox pup in distress was and is the holey grail of gray fox calls.
I wish I could find it in a downloadable format for my phone
Yes I call with my phone and a Bluetooth speaker

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Brings back some memories

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