Hello all. It has been a long time but I'm back. I have a question and I'm sure it has been asked a bunch but here goes (again).
I have an old Johnny Stewart Preymaster with all the digital crow cards and I want to upgrade. The Preymaster is starting to get temperamental (maybe it has a short in it, kinda cuts out sometimes and sometime will not cut on without resetting the card). I really want a wireless, easy to use unit. I don't want anything to big and cumbersome. Not sure if there is another Johnny Stewart that could use all the crow cards I have or just punt the cards and get a new unit.
I was thinking about the Johnny Stewart Electronic Predator Call PT-6 Grim Speaker GS-2. It looks nice an portable and easy to set up with 100yrd remote and you can down load crow calls (256MB storage). I assume you can loop the calls to keep them rolling. Maybe I should be thinking about another call? What do you think??
I suggest you investigate the new X-Wave e-caller from FOXPRO. They will start shipping next month, based on my latest information.
I generally use one of these FOXPRO Snow-Crow-Pro ecallers - an older SCP II modified by the FOXPRO Custom Shop to put smaller speakers right on both sides of the hard case, for portability, or a Super Snow Crow Pro. The volume of either of these devices really makes a difference calling crows from long range. I understand you may not want to invest in one of these dedicated high volume systems, so the smaller X-Wave or Shockwave system might be a better fit for you.
American designed and built FOXPRO callers won't let you down in the field. They can take a beating and still deliver year in and year out. Buy once, cry once.
Thanks GB. I am the occasional crow hunter now. I use to have some great roosts in North Alabama but storms knocked down some of the roosts and my hunting took a hit as well because of it. If I lived in snow goose country I would defiantly get the FOXPRO Snow-Crow-Pro. I searched some old threads on here before I asked the e-caller question. The makes/models seem to change often. I use to hunt an old Johnny Stewart 45record player with my dad back in the dad... boy have times changed for the better.
I love gimmicks too-in fact UI use similar gimmickry but luckily I don't have to use the deadly effective dead crow on that interesting unit from England.(By the way with the corvid ban going on -I predict you might snag one up for dirt cheap as they are forced to dump their products)
But never forget to keep your mouth calling fine tuned. Get the best one you can afford and get used to it. I have quite a few mouth calls and some can do practically any call a crow can make (Mallard Tone Haydells' and others I own) because sometimes you'll forget your e-caller collectively any electronic caller or you forget to charge it and then what do you do? It's happened to me and that ability to communicate with a crow always paid off.....naturally I'd shoot an area where I'd been before so I needed different gimmicks (God I hate NH for crows)
but all the same the bottom line is whatever works use it. And happy hunting!
You ever hunt around Trinity south west of Decatur ? Dick and I used to shoot quite a few crows in that area years back. It's a dead zone now but in it's day was pretty good.
95% of the state is a dead zone. So much development and weekend warriors educate the crows that are around. Very rarely see more than 100 birds in a group
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Yep. Hunted there and a bit down the road by the dump in Courtland. There was a HUGE roost there but tornado blew down the large stand pine roost and no more birds. I think the way they cover the dump now also reduced the number of birds. Back in the day that was some great shooting.
