Thread: Fox whistles - for cats

Originally Posted by Flyblown

Fellas

A South African mate of mine who now lives in Tassie thought he would do the environment a good service, so he went online and bought himself a fox whistle and off he went to shoot a fox with his .204 just like all the YouTube vids he’d been watching. Being a complete knob he was totally unaware that there aren’t any foxes in Tasmania, and the Tassie blokes at the office elected not to tell him that. (I am told they were wetting themselves the bastards... would have been damn funny though.) My mate went off with his chick and hoped to come home with a good representative Tasmanian “brush”.

Anyway, imagine their surprise when after a long and foxless while, this feral cat pitched up, clearly attraced to the whiskle, whereupon it copped a dose of high velocity Nosler. Back at the office, after much mirth and piss taking, the cat story caught the Tassie boys attention, so together they went to a likely spot near an old mine, now overgrown and rabbit infested.

I am told they whistled in half a dozen cats, all shot. It was so successful, that there’s a small posse of fox whistling cat hunters in Rosebery now. I am curious to know if any of you have tried this over here? Ferals cats are one of the absolute best damn varmints to hunt, always feels bloody great when I get a couple of cats.

If you have tried it successfully, which whistle did you use? Any stories to share?

I used to use a cheap squeaky squeeze toy cheap as chips and worked a treat on foxes in UK or a bit of polystyrene rubbed on the truck window.

Problem I’ve got with executing my cunning plan... is hayfever season has arrived in full force. No medication works, not even enormous cortisone injections. Anyway, watched this vid today and have asked the supplier of the yellow whistle about shipment to NZ as its not an option on the website.

https://youtu.be/KwBKPqE0DnM

Looks like he missed the last couple of foxes to me!

Originally Posted by john m

I have 2 of the metal ones that worked real well on foxes.
Tried maybe 6x here for cats never seen one come to the whistle yet.
They should work as our over fed cats at home show interest when used.

An easy diy is to use 12ga short brass remove primers and plastic push one inside the other,not as easy to whistle but with a little practice work the same.

we used to do that in the UK, but solder the two bases together. Good call for a widgeon, a type of duck

Fellas
I’ve been given a tip by my YouTube mate Steve in Victoria that the most effective caller he’s used for a long time is the T2 from FoxCalls.com. You can see it in action here:

https://youtu.be/xJ6R0CHdSQU

So I got in touch with Paul at Fox Calls and he is investigating postage to NZ tomorrow Tuesday.

If you would like to grab one of these callers and give them a go on our pestulet feral cats, then I’m happy to get some more units in and pass them onto you.

Let me know asap and we’ll take it from there. I think we’ll limit exposure our to say 5 units, one for myself, four to the first four to put their hands up, that should give us a decent look at its effectiveness. If they work, then we can arrange more. Paul doesn’t have a NZ postage option on his website yet.

What d’ya reckon? I’m keen as. Cats look out.

Originally Posted by Flyblown

Fellas
I’ve been given a tip by my YouTube mate Steve in Victoria that the most effective caller he’s used for a long time is the T2 from FoxCalls.com. You can see it in action here:

https://youtu.be/xJ6R0CHdSQU

So I got in touch with Paul at Fox Calls and he is investigating postage to NZ tomorrow Tuesday.

If you would like to grab one of these callers and give them a go on our pestulet feral cats, then I’m happy to get some more units in and pass them onto you.

Let me know asap and we’ll take it from there. I think we’ll limit exposure our to say 5 units, one for myself, four to the first four to put their hands up, that should give us a decent look at its effectiveness. If they work, then we can arrange more. Paul doesn’t have a NZ postage option on his website yet.

What d’ya reckon? I’m keen as. Cats look out.

Depending on the price for the whistle I would be very keen. Mark me down for one and let me know the price asap, cheers.

This is all I know at the moment - sorry completely forgot to put in the link to the whistle...

Tenterfield style whistle

So about $30 nz plus postage

I'm keen. Got a few wild cats on the farm that I can trail it on.

Yep Im keen too. Cheers @Flyblown

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OK thanks fellas.

ONE LEFT!

Who's gonna join the fun and games?

@Flyblown

I’m in!!

I’ll pm you

@Flyblown. Sweet that's 5

Once you got a price sorted just pm me your account details and the price and ill flick you the $$

cheers again

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Make it 6?

OK fellas, looks like @SiB got the last one... however, lets see how Paul at FoxCalls goes with following up, he’s been inundated in the last few days and comms have been slow. If he does what he says he will do, no harm in adding a couple more to the order, so @kukuwai and @MSL you’ll be covered. No more please! At least until we have a view on whether these things make a cat feel hungry or not...

As per #21 I'm still keen on one please

I am keen on one too.

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