Tenterfield fox call (or not)

[finnbear270]

I just watched that video, I had been doing it right after all, I wouldn't consider that noise a fox call ... not for me anyway.
Even the Missus thought it was sh*te.

 

[VSS]

As @BenBhoy says, the Tenterfield just looks like an ordinary shepherds whistle. Pretty easy to master, if it is. I can play "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" on mine, but never tried calling a fox with it to be fair.

 

[VSS]

Here's one I made earlier from a bit of aluminium:

 

[BenBhoy]

Here's one I made earlier from a bit of aluminium:
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I'm a heathen - I prefer the plastic ones! Preferably in bright orange (and I still lose them)

 

[zerovarm]

Tried every technique imaginable and just can't get mine to play Vixen in heat

 

[Len the dog]

I can play "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" on mine, but never tried calling a fox with it to be fair.

But inexplicably always have lots of Welsh rugby players mooching about your fields.

 

[old 30-06]

Thank you all for your support, sympathy and comments. I have had another two hours with it trying to make a sound, any sound, but without any success. I think I will put it back in the drawer for another two years !

 

[Herb64]

It does take practice but once you master it it’s like riding a bike, you’ll not forget how to do it. On a blowy night the sound carries a fair distance. I’ve genuinely had a lot of success with it if the conditions are right.

 

[Len the dog]

It does take practice but once you master it it’s like riding a bike, you’ll not forget how to do it. On a blowy night the sound carries a fair distance. I’ve genuinely had a lot of success with it if the conditions are right.

Learning to ride a bike was easier and far less painful.

 

[old 30-06]

I can ride a bike. I can swim. I can scuba dive. I cannot blow the damn thing. Its at the bottom of the drawer now !

 

[Tim.243]

I can ride a bike. I can swim. I can scuba dive. I cannot blow the damn thing. Its at the bottom of the drawer now !

I can do all 4 lol.......

 

[old keeper]

Like all calls none are guaranteed to call a fox in. The Teneterfield type can work well on occasions, they seem to like the raspy sound.
Someone mentioned the Faulhaber, this replicates a mouse squeak and it's amazing just how far a fox can hear it. Just recently I called one in from over three hundred yards with a good old-fashioned hand squeak. Sometimes I think we have our callers too loud, their hearing and the ability to pinpoint where the call is coming from is amazing.

 

[Smellydog]

Like all calls none are guaranteed to call a fox in. The Teneterfield type can work well on occasions, they seem to like the raspy sound.
Someone mentioned the Faulhaber, this replicates a mouse squeak and it's amazing just how far a fox can hear it. Just recently I called one in from over three hundred yards with a good old-fashioned hand squeak. Sometimes I think we have our callers too loud, their hearing and the ability to pinpoint where the call is coming from is amazing.

You make a very good point. It could well be the volume that betrays us!
I think using the hand is similar in volume to a real rabbit. Probably why it works so well??

 

[finnbear270]

Nothing has called any fox on my shoot areas, full stop.
Going to try the caller I purchased from Long Range Rob in Classifieds ... might contact member blueeyes if the onboard ones fail to attract.
Spotted some distant customers & they could not be less interested.
41 shot last year & a lot lot thinner on the ground now.
Curlew people will be wanting it to remain that way.

 

[cjs66]

Hi. A fellow keeper mate of mine has a fox call that really works. The sound sends shivers down your spine. It is blood marvelous. It will get the foxes flying in from near and far. Well thats fine for him, but I did not want to be outdone by him, so to get on par, I bought the best. A Tenterfield. Not a similar one, or a copy, or a clone, but a genuine Tenterfield.

On the internet I had seen it being used in Australia, and I carefully studied the video on how to use it. On the video I particularly liked the sound, the "rasp" in the tone of that call. Well, I can report that I have had mine for over two years now. How many foxes has it accounted for ? NONE. I have never been able to get the damn thing to work. I have blown through it. I have blown over it. I have blown under it. I cannot get anything out of it. Not one squeak has it uttered. Nothing. I can blow through it this way or that, that way or this, upside down or sideways, but the bloody thing is mute.

Has anyone got one to make a noise, or is it all just an Australian wind up !

Have you tried turning it off then back on again?

cjs

 

[old keeper]

You make a very good point. It could well be the volume that betrays us!
I think using the hand is similar in volume to a real rabbit. Probably why it works so well??

Sometimes I wonder if the hand squeak produces a more "natural" sound than one produced electronically. Foxes have acute hearing to a level we can only imagine. Over the many years I've been dealing with foxes I've seen many instances where a fox will pass within a few feet of an electronic call and totally ignore it. Could it be that at times the sound produced by these callers just doesn't sound right to a fox's ears?
Calling is at best an imprecise science but on balance, I've had far more adult foxes hand-calling than with good-quality electronic callers.

 

[old 30-06]

When I have used my rabbit squealer, or the back of my hand, I have had mixed results. Mostly nothing happens. Occasionally they really work well. I have had one run at me from over 400 yards away, and it ran like Usain Bolt. I had to shout really loud to stop it when it was only 30 yards away. In my experience if they are in cover and within 150 yards away they are more likely to come to the call.

 

[finnbear270]

Called an enormous dog fox on a golf course in the city of Chester ...............accidentally, with an Iphone app whilst trying out the calls, must have had hearing more acute than my Mum.

 

[Nickb]

I have called countless foxes with various methods including hand , Foxpro and wigeon whistles. By far the most effective has been the Foxpro with its huge selection of calls.
Saying that if a fox doesnt want to respond it wont no matter what you try. Some nights they fly in and others they are totally uninterested.
Probably why we enjoy it so much.

 

[Puds]

I had one and was very glad it was on a lanyard as it made me cough so hard whilst trying to get it to do more than an asthmatic fart I almost swallowed the bloody thing.

I’ve got a lot of hares on my foxing grounds so find a wooden acme predator call works a treat, making a noise uncannily & hauntingly like an injured hare.