I'd like to know more about people that use animal distress calls in their broadcasting research. A researcher mentioned that a rabbit distress call seemed to have been one of his best in the toolbox.

Also, have people used other animal calls such as barred owl, coyote and wolf, for example, to try to elicit vocalizations from a lonely pod of Squatch, or any other large animal close to you? Anybody ever try a gorilla call and live to tell about it? I did a search and couldn't come up with any suitable old thread, so decided to create this one.

Along the same lines, how many that frequent a specific area as a researcher have thought about ramping up the wood knocks to something higher on the curiosity scale such as wood block rhythms/tapping (very loud sound carry) which are more complex than the simple rap/rap/tap thingy.

I know alot has been said about using an active camp with music, children, clinking toasts to each other with ones fav bev, etc. etc. But I'd like to get some serious ideas here about some things that have been working besides repeating the Ohio or Washington calls. I'm not a call-blaster by the way, I'm just interested in having something available should the circumstances ever warrant. Just one more trick up the sleeve perhaps to make something happen?

Have fun with it, but don't get too far off thread.

I added a "Predator" call which imitates the sound of a rabbit in distress to my bag of tricks a few weeks ago. So far no hits on it from anything but at the same time to be fair I haven't spent a lot of time using it either in anything I'd consider better than average bigfoot territory for this part of the country. Planning on a trip in the near future to a better area, will let you know if anything comes of that.

Keep in mind that predator calls can draw in other animals that you might prefer not visit you.

I tried using a deer "bleet" one time. Imagine my surprise when a bobcat showed up! He wasn't very happy at being fooled.

I've used some squealing pig vocals once or twice but can't say that it was successful bringing in a Sas. Sometimes when working a new area, the results can be quite minimal at first, you just have to stick with it a while.

I've had some interesting return vocals when our team was using two different broadcasting locations, with one playing screams and the other howls.

SY.

Yeah, like a Predator....

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Yeah, with my luck the rabbit distress call would bring in the skunk-like smell but it'd be a
skunk! Ha hah!

Personally, I'm not all that fond of the idea of call blasting. Other wildlife organizations discourage it in their fields, for example the American Birding Association.

I accidentally offended some hummingbirds once, when I was sitting on the back deck playing with the iBird iPhone app, playing back owl sounds. The birds at the nearby feeder got upset and dive-bombed me. With poop. I really don't want a sasquatch to bomb me in that way.

Seriously though, I've yet to see any unequivocal results from call blasting, so I wonder why so many still think it's such a great idea.

It's a prospecting technique, It does generate responses that seem out of character for known species in my research areas. Ofcoarse, without knowing all the sounds a sasquatch can make there is allways some doubt as to what made the sounds, therefore, achieving the level of unequivocal, is not possible at this time. If it generates curiosity, and stimulates activity near researchers and their equipment, then there is the possibility of gathering further evidence.

SY.

I'm not a scientist or any researcher with any degree, and I will never prove anything in a court of law, but making noises in suitable habitat (no matter the recording OR stick used to whap a tree) is likely to attract anything that is as elusive as a being which may or may not be. It is more of a matter of a witness happening to stumble upon said being and not BF hunters (although I wish each all the luck in the world). I do hope I am proven wrong about the recording blarers and evidence is rewarded to you (us).
I agree with investigator jimf in one aspect...the subject/site is a study in fellow brothers' psychology.

Personally, I'm talking about close in calling, NOT BLASTING (I used the word broadcasting which may have been misleading, just wanting to mean recording more than amplified blasting). That was why I created this specific thread to avoid the word blasting. I'm against using the "classic" broadcasted BLASTING of alleged sasquatch calls mentioned in the opening post. If somebody thinks they have there own Sasquatch sounds that work locally then fine. That is because I research fringe areas that are not deep wilderness, it may be something others want to use in the proper environment but I'm not sold on it. I prefer more natural sounds when you feel like you've got something nearby that is closer in. I do many of my own calls and find whistles work quite well by themselves and I have had success with more than three varieties including unusual mourning dove calls, loud unique bird whistles and such. I was just wanting others that research to give ideas of what has worked for them in this department. I have recorded my own calls and play them on a very small handheld WITHOUT amplification for close=in work. In my instance I do not want to notify the adjoining watersheds what I am doing. This is my specific purpose in starting this thread to keep the soundtrack topic active for more local work at a much less intense volume. For example, sometimes when my lips are parched the whistles aren't producing as well or aren't quality so a recording of what works personally for me has come in very handy.

Further, when others are using their own calls which are not blasted, I am specifically interested in those who are obtaining clear vocal mimicry of call fidelity, from what they sense and/or can prove, are nonhuman bipedals. So as not to derail the thread into one of sound mimicry (since I didn't start the thread with that title) I guess those researchers with info. in that regard can PM me. I will share my experiences likewise. In the meantime I'll search for a good sound mimicry or call mimicry thread that has been started in the past or start one possibly if the thread is too old.

I've done some playing with digital game callers and yes, used the rabbit distress call and found you need decent speakers to have the sound carry a decent ways. Something else I've been tempted to try is use a didgeridoo as a curiosity lure. Has anyone tried something like that?





That gives a whole new level to feces flinging monkey....

Just to keep the newbies and others that might not know up to speed, some of the more "famous" early sasquatch calls recorded may not be squatchy at all, but observed coyote vocalizations that are amplified by echo through mountain valley and ridge systems. http://www.bigfootforums.com/index.php?sho...=14687&st=0