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Hi there, looking for thoughts / advice/ recommendations on roaring horns. Is there one type better than another eg electronic vs plastic? Is one brand better than the other? Or is just a piece of alkathene pipe as good as anything? Or vacuum cleaner hose?…. Or just do away with one altogether?
Interested in what everyone thinks?
I personally don’t use one to date….. wondering if I’m missing out on anything, noting I’m primarily tops hunting.
10 inch piece of 50mm alkathene pipe will out do any thing you could get -yes a cow horn good but many are to big and just used to muchQuote:
Originally Posted by Ponchorello
Graf boys plastic
Game calling app on your phone and a blue tooth speaker works too.
+1Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry the hunter
Just whip the radiator hose off your Ute……….. but don’t lose the bugger in the bush.
works even better if you replace the normal speaker corn and fit a horn speaker remotely, done 3 or 4 now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Happy Jack
you get way more volume and its not as tinny sounding
So you could hide a speaker 10 metres from you and let ripp using yr phone app.Iv just tryed the roaring app out.No 1 ,2 roars pretty loud with the phone turned up.Cool.
In essence yes, supposedly works for magpies too if you have the right call.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trout
Just deer for me HJ,but iv called a few stags in just using my half clinched fists together.Think stags will go for any stag type of roar if i can get them trotting or sneaking it..
Last year i called one in,my mate said i think its charging us,stag was trotting towards us at pace.I said well shoot the fkn thing, He missed at 50yds away,stag came to a screaming holt,about turned n gone.He checked his zero,shot was about metre to left at 50yds.
repco roarer aka Radiator hose,alot cheaper to replace if you loose it and yes it works:thumbsup:
the only problem with the radiator hose is that it tastes like shit rubber - yes it works but is not pleasant to use - 50 mm alkathene is much better and does not have a rubbery tasteQuote:
Originally Posted by Hbwanderer
Get some 40 or 50mm flexible plastic electrical conduit (the ribbed type). No shit taste, nice and light and makes some mean gluttoral sound.
That’s what I use, 40mmQuote:
Originally Posted by RUMPY
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that sound good -most young hunters roar way to much - wrong time of day - to loudly - far to badly- and simply don't realize they shut up more stags than answer -always seems to me that if one was to go electronic it would be good to station a speaker 500 meters or more away and have it play on signal while you sneak in - we do that when in pairs -one stays well back - nice soft roaring try to sound like a love sick spiker - and give 3-5 minutes after stag roars to answer - to many young hunters seem to believe that if they bellow their ass of stags will come tearing in looking for a fight - of the many I have shot I could count on one hand the number that did that - usually its good to just keep them roaring - yes I have seen the Graf boys videos of stags coming in close but I think the common denominator there is that they are likely hunting areas not hunted very much - last few roars its been so bloody warm stags only really active at night lolQuote:
Originally Posted by MSL
Last roar I just used a tomato sauce bottle and seemed to work a treat �� a Powerade bottle goes good too. Don't want anything too big so it can hang around your neck and slip down the inside of your jacket nicely.
I've learnt over the years to roar less once you've got a bead on the stags and sneak in only letting out the occasional quiet roar. More often than not you'll scare stags off roaring too loud and too close.
Have a look at a shags head ...aka ...the bird .make a horn from that shape . The noise travels well
Pedro ampuero, YouTube channel, Spanish hunter I think, has an interesting roaring horn. Search him up under Pedro ampuero red stag rut, he makes a pretty mint imitation of a roar with his tube. Let me know if you can track one down, I’d be keen to ship one of them horns in
Cow Horn all the way. Keep it old school.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JDxqCebqofYQuote:
Originally Posted by Jus