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Bit of foxing on the Fieldsports TV channel

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  • #2
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    clivej wrote: »
    http://www.fieldsportschannel.tv/index.php

    I may get one of those Kawasaki jobbies!


  • #3
    virminhunter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭virminhunter


    i'm definatly gonna try that polystyrene on glass trick i never saw that one before, beats bleeding lips from calling...:)


  • #4
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    virminhunter wrote: »
    i'm definatly gonna try that polystyrene on glass trick i never saw that one before, beats bleeding lips from calling...:)

    That's an old trick. First time I saw that was as a kid.
    Free is the best bit, loads of builders yards have it blowing around the place.

    Although I was calling yesterday for ~15mins and no Joy with my lips.
    Perhaps I was not loud enough though, I hear you on bleeding lips.

    We have to rid the world of these baby Killing Foxes!:D


  • #5
    virminhunter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭virminhunter


    yeah but the stuff you get on building sites is mostly aeroboard when you try rubbing it on glass it just breaks up into balls, polystyrene i think is the finer stuff they make the cups out of when you buy your tea in a filling station, i must try and find a bit....


  • #6
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    virminhunter wrote: »
    yeah but the stuff you get on building sites is mostly aeroboard when you try rubbing it on glass it just breaks up into balls, polystyrene i think is the finer stuff they make the cups out of when you buy your tea in a filling station, i must try and find a bit....

    Gormless might say you are damaging the environment though lol

    You must use bio-degradable fox calls !!


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  • #7
    clivej
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,274 ✭✭✭clivej


    I use the polystyrene on the glass and it works well, very well in fact. I like the way he had the glass on the board, nice and easy to carry around with you.


  • #8
    mairtd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭mairtd


    If it's polystyrene you want I have fecks trucks loads of the fecken stuff. good compacted polystyrene comes in the packing around washing machines and the likes . Have seen alot of foxes called in this way


  • #9
    Vegeta
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    clivej wrote: »
    I use the polystyrene on the glass and it works well, very well in fact. I like the way he had the glass on the board, nice and easy to carry around with you.

    A nice size van mirror on a looped rope is handy.

    Can hang around the neck of the lamp man and it is always close to hand


  • #10
    Tackleberrywho
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    My Pensioner Hunter buddy gave me this today, been calling foxes since the 70's

    I want to soak it in Detol over night though

    You have to put it between your top and bottom for it to work.
    Not very hygienic though
    122939.jpg


  • #11
    tfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,004 ✭✭✭tfox


    Ya see a lot of them in them in the shooting mags from England. Cheap as chips and quite effective.

    I got mine thrown in free with an order of gear from Arthur Carter Sports, have it hanging round my neck on a landyard when lamping, ya wouldnt even notice it there, just looks like a bit of bling :D


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  • #12
    Vegeta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Vegeta


    Is that the same as the WAM fox caller

    I like the noise it makes but the output from them can be quiet low and you cant just blow harder as the sound dies when you do. Great for coaxing a close fox in, not so great for calling in from afar

    Also they are delicate and if you ever sit on it by accident, they bend easily


  • #13
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    Vegeta wrote: »
    Is that the same as the WAM fox caller

    I like the noise it makes but the output from them can be quiet low and you cant just blow harder as the sound dies when you do. Great for coaxing a close fox in, not so great for calling in from afar

    Also they are delicate and if you ever sit on it by accident, they bend easily

    That one is as old as the hills, steel, work quite well, I'm making a recording for ipod today


  • #14
    Vegeta
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    Tackleberrywho wrote: »
    That one is as old as the hills, steel, work quite well, I'm making a recording for ipod today

    The wam one I have appears to be thin brass. I prefer the electronic caller and the polystyrene on glass just because they are more versatile than the wam.


  • #15
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    Anybody got any links to get some fox calls for the ipod?


  • #16
    clivej
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    Tackleberrywho wrote: »
    My Pensioner Hunter buddy gave me this today, been calling foxes since the 70's

    I want to soak it in Detol over night though

    You have to put it between your top and bottom for it to work.
    Not very hygienic though

    Thats a widgen caller. You can still buy them in the shops.


  • #17
    Dusty87
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    Vegeta wrote: »
    A nice size van mirror on a looped rope is handy.

    Can hang around the neck of the lamp man and it is always close to hand

    +1, i use the vanity mirror off an old car


  • #18
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    clivej wrote: »
    Thats a wigen caller. You can still buy them in the shops.

    gets my old mucker foxes though!

    I think it's very un hygienic though.

    A spit gatherer

    Any Downloadable fox calls for my iPod?

    this old man has no Tech in his life, he was using a Dictaphone recently that he left in a hen house and reckons that the foxes came running.

    I want to make it a bit more precise, one continuous loop of distressed rabbit sound


  • #19
    Dusty87
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    Tackleberrywho wrote: »
    Anybody got any links to get some fox calls for the ipod?

    westernrivers.com if i remember right, varmintals.com too

    I have one of them widgeon callers. 4e on fleabay


  • #20
    Dusty87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87


    Scratch that, westernrivers is a insurance company,
    try this
    download.cnet.com/...Hunting-Calls/3000-2136_4-75016859.html

    Also here
    http://www.western-rivers.com/


  • #21
    clivej
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,274 ✭✭✭clivej


    Dusty87 wrote: »
    Scratch that, westernrivers is a insurance company,
    try this
    download.cnet.com/...Hunting-Calls/3000-2136_4-75016859.html

    Also here
    http://www.western-rivers.com/


    dusty any chance you can put the cnet.com into a link, I can't find it by searching the cnet.com site.
    cheers.


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  • #22
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    clivej wrote: »
    dusty any chance you can put the cnet.com into a link, I can't find it by searching the cnet.com site.
    cheers.

    +1

    Although as it's lashing here might not get to try it out on my local Foxes until it stops!

    rabbits were in the garden last night again, which means we could have foxes outside the door!


  • #23
    Dusty87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87


    Here clive and tack. Try this
    http://download.cnet.com/Coyote-Hunting-Calls/3000-2136_4-75016859.html

    I dont have an eye phone so i dont know how good they are. i always use the varmintals and western-rivers.com used to put them on my phone but they too quiet


  • #24
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    Dusty87 wrote: »
    Here clive and tack. Try this
    http://download.cnet.com/Coyote-Hunting-Calls/3000-2136_4-75016859.html

    I dont have an eye phone so i dont know how good they are. i always use the varmintals and western-rivers.com used to put them on my phone but they too quiet

    Not putting them on a phone, on an Ipod and using a speaker

    I have an Ipod nano should do the trick


  • #25
    clivej
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,274 ✭✭✭clivej


    Dusty87 wrote: »
    Here clive and tack. Try this
    http://download.cnet.com/Coyote-Hunting-Calls/3000-2136_4-75016859.html

    I dont have an eye phone so i dont know how good they are. i always use the varmintals and western-rivers.com used to put them on my phone but they too quiet

    Then you could get a little amp to boost the sound

    Here's the DIY setup I made.
    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055320088

    ANd here's the amp £12.50
    http://www.cornwallelectronics.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=32

    MiniAudioAmplifier.jpg


  • #26
    Dusty87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87


    Tackleberrywho wrote: »
    Not putting them on a phone, on an Ipod and using a speaker

    I have an Ipod nano should do the trick

    Or download from the other websites i gave onto the laptop/pc then download from there to phone, ipod etc


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