After our first trip to the woods this year in search of squirrels, I was frustrated that I couldn't seem to get their attention using the Lohman Bark Squirrel Call I've had since I was a kid. I remember having success with this call on one occasion in the past, but on the whole I've found it more frustrating than useful.
So... like any modern hunter, I turned to YouTube. I decided that I would try to listen to some recordings of real squirrels to see if I could imitate them. I found a squirrel's actual bark alarm call (below) to be impossible to convincingly replicate with the Lohman Bark Squirrel Call.
I had slightly better success shaking the call to create "chatter". Fortunately my search through YouTube also led me to this next video. This video is remarkable because it is the only video I could find on all of YouTube that actually shows a hunter using a squirrel call... with REAL squirrels responding!
The best price I could find online was at wingsupply.com, where I got it shipped to my door within the week for $11.94. The only downside was that the call lacks a lanyard, so I had to add my own.
Sure enough when I took it right away to the nearby woods I had a number of squirrels responding with bark alarms from the treetops. I couldn't get them to come right in to me like he does in the video, so it will probably be easier to nab them when a few more leaves start to fall. Needless to say I am anxious to take it on our next hunting trip!
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