looking for people that firt hand experience with these electric calls. they are a pretty penny so i want to make sure i get the right one for the money
-
Having trouble using the site?
Contact support -
Not receiving emails?
We're currently aware of an issue with our email provider and working to fix it as quickly as we can! Appreciate your patience here!
View thread
Hunting & Fishing wildlife tech or foxpro?
- Thread starter coues103
- Start date
Re: wildlife tech or foxpro?
Same thing here, I've had several FoxPro products including the FX3, FX5, Scorpion and the CS24. I like different things about each of them and the new CS24 is top notch but I think my next one will be another scorpion with the SP55 speaker in a yoters den bag. I really miss the flexibility of that unit...
I don't have any personal experience with WT stuff but I understand it is pretty good. If you want to get with with someone who is extremely knowledgeable you should talk to Mark at www.WildlifeCallers.com, that guy really knows his stuff.
One thing that I have noticed is that it seems that FoxPro stuff appears to have better resale value but that is just my opinion...
Same thing here, I've had several FoxPro products including the FX3, FX5, Scorpion and the CS24. I like different things about each of them and the new CS24 is top notch but I think my next one will be another scorpion with the SP55 speaker in a yoters den bag. I really miss the flexibility of that unit...
I don't have any personal experience with WT stuff but I understand it is pretty good. If you want to get with with someone who is extremely knowledgeable you should talk to Mark at www.WildlifeCallers.com, that guy really knows his stuff.
One thing that I have noticed is that it seems that FoxPro stuff appears to have better resale value but that is just my opinion...
Re: wildlife tech or foxpro?
Foxpro Is what I have. The usability of the remote leaves a bit to be desired for the money in my opinion but it works.
Foxpro Is what I have. The usability of the remote leaves a bit to be desired for the money in my opinion but it works.
Re: wildlife tech or foxpro?
The FoxPros that bosshog mentioned are all top quality, just a difference in features.
Whichever brand you choose, do a little research on those features. Some of them you might think you don't need, but you'll find out later how handy they are. I just started using the "pre-sets" a while back on my Fury and I don't know now how I ever got along without it.
The FoxPros that bosshog mentioned are all top quality, just a difference in features.
Whichever brand you choose, do a little research on those features. Some of them you might think you don't need, but you'll find out later how handy they are. I just started using the "pre-sets" a while back on my Fury and I don't know now how I ever got along without it.
Re: wildlife tech or foxpro?
After using the Wildlife tech for three years you couldn't give me a Fox pro again. It's all about sounds and the quality at the higher volume and Fox pro don't hack it!! I have to use a lot of volume in my country to pull coyotes and at full volume the sounds are perfection. It is not as techy a caller for sure but it will get you fur from farther!! Everyone wants to be a predator caller in my area so to consistently call the big dogs in you can't roll with weak sounds!!
After using the Wildlife tech for three years you couldn't give me a Fox pro again. It's all about sounds and the quality at the higher volume and Fox pro don't hack it!! I have to use a lot of volume in my country to pull coyotes and at full volume the sounds are perfection. It is not as techy a caller for sure but it will get you fur from farther!! Everyone wants to be a predator caller in my area so to consistently call the big dogs in you can't roll with weak sounds!!
Re: wildlife tech or foxpro?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: bigngreen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">After using the Wildlife tech for three years you couldn't give me a Fox pro again. It's all about sounds and the quality at the higher volume and Fox pro don't hack it!! I have to use a lot of volume in my country to pull coyotes and at full volume the sounds are perfection. It is not as techy a caller for sure but it will get you fur from farther!! Everyone wants to be a predator caller in my area so to consistently call the big dogs in you can't roll with weak sounds!! </div></div>
I've heard this argument over and over but I don't feel like it holds water for several reasons. The main two are that according to some FoxPro has dramatically increased the quality of its sound library and the guys who formerly bought WT calls just for the sounds to play on their FP units no longer think that way. I have never personally heard WT sounds so I can't say anything other than what I've heard from others but it seems like that is changing.
Secondly, how much does the quality of the sound "actually" make to the critter you're attempting to call? I know that I have killed allot of stuff using the old DSG cottontail sound which is just a mix of three guys blowing a hand call... Sure some of the newer stuff sounds better to "my ears" but I'm just not sure how much it actually matters in the field. Afterall if that was the case it would be nearly impossible for the average guy to call much of anything with a hand call...
I really try to straddle the fence on this issue and always note that both WT and FP stuff is top notch (as well as multiple other brands) and that all of them will call stuff in. Over the course of a hunting lifetime it might make a small difference using one unit over another but to say that you wouldn't accept a certain brand if it were given to you is pure stupidity...
Get what you can afford and what you like and enjoy the hunt... Leave the politics for the dipchits in Washington.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: bigngreen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">After using the Wildlife tech for three years you couldn't give me a Fox pro again. It's all about sounds and the quality at the higher volume and Fox pro don't hack it!! I have to use a lot of volume in my country to pull coyotes and at full volume the sounds are perfection. It is not as techy a caller for sure but it will get you fur from farther!! Everyone wants to be a predator caller in my area so to consistently call the big dogs in you can't roll with weak sounds!! </div></div>
I've heard this argument over and over but I don't feel like it holds water for several reasons. The main two are that according to some FoxPro has dramatically increased the quality of its sound library and the guys who formerly bought WT calls just for the sounds to play on their FP units no longer think that way. I have never personally heard WT sounds so I can't say anything other than what I've heard from others but it seems like that is changing.
Secondly, how much does the quality of the sound "actually" make to the critter you're attempting to call? I know that I have killed allot of stuff using the old DSG cottontail sound which is just a mix of three guys blowing a hand call... Sure some of the newer stuff sounds better to "my ears" but I'm just not sure how much it actually matters in the field. Afterall if that was the case it would be nearly impossible for the average guy to call much of anything with a hand call...
I really try to straddle the fence on this issue and always note that both WT and FP stuff is top notch (as well as multiple other brands) and that all of them will call stuff in. Over the course of a hunting lifetime it might make a small difference using one unit over another but to say that you wouldn't accept a certain brand if it were given to you is pure stupidity...
Get what you can afford and what you like and enjoy the hunt... Leave the politics for the dipchits in Washington.
Re: wildlife tech or foxpro?
I bought a WT caller 8 or 9 years ago because Foxpro didn't have decent wolf sounds then. I consider most of the features marketing gimmics and would buy a foxpro if they had working wolf sounds. Strong points of WT are remote range and speaker volume. To me the WT was a Chevrolet with Cadillac price tag.
I bought a WT caller 8 or 9 years ago because Foxpro didn't have decent wolf sounds then. I consider most of the features marketing gimmics and would buy a foxpro if they had working wolf sounds. Strong points of WT are remote range and speaker volume. To me the WT was a Chevrolet with Cadillac price tag.
Re: wildlife tech or foxpro?
I have both a FoxPro CS24 and a WT 2030 ML currently and have owned 3 WTs over time. They all have their strengths and weaknesses as do most all things.
You can call in critters with either. The WT I have is much louder than the CS24 and the sounds, for the most part, are better and more realistic sounding plus the remote is much better than the CS24 for distance, but the CS24 remote has a list screen that lets you see where you are at instead of taping a sound list on the back. The CS24 remote also has some glitches in it so it is far from perfect.
Sound quality does matter and the CS24 will come closer to the WT than any of the other FoxPro callers since it uses the same TOA speaker set that the WT was using.
Personally, I like the guys at FoxPro better than the guys at WT. Mike and Steve Dillon are good people and I have met both and hunted with Mike and am actually on one of their recent videos from a couple years back for a hunt in Arkansas.
I still haven't sold the WT, but if somebody wanted one I could be convinced at a fair price. Not because it is an inferior caller because I do not think that it is inferior and may well be superior when all is said and done. I have called in hundreds of critters using the WT callers. Mostly because I like the guys at FoxPro and how they do business a bit better than the WT folks. WT IS doing better these days by keeping Bill off the phone as much as possible hahahaha.
I have both a FoxPro CS24 and a WT 2030 ML currently and have owned 3 WTs over time. They all have their strengths and weaknesses as do most all things.
You can call in critters with either. The WT I have is much louder than the CS24 and the sounds, for the most part, are better and more realistic sounding plus the remote is much better than the CS24 for distance, but the CS24 remote has a list screen that lets you see where you are at instead of taping a sound list on the back. The CS24 remote also has some glitches in it so it is far from perfect.
Sound quality does matter and the CS24 will come closer to the WT than any of the other FoxPro callers since it uses the same TOA speaker set that the WT was using.
Personally, I like the guys at FoxPro better than the guys at WT. Mike and Steve Dillon are good people and I have met both and hunted with Mike and am actually on one of their recent videos from a couple years back for a hunt in Arkansas.
I still haven't sold the WT, but if somebody wanted one I could be convinced at a fair price. Not because it is an inferior caller because I do not think that it is inferior and may well be superior when all is said and done. I have called in hundreds of critters using the WT callers. Mostly because I like the guys at FoxPro and how they do business a bit better than the WT folks. WT IS doing better these days by keeping Bill off the phone as much as possible hahahaha.
Re: wildlife tech or foxpro?
I didn't think that sound quality was nearly as big an issue till we started using the WT and we started pulling in older dogs from a lot farther away. Our call in percentage went way up as well and our shot range came in so close that we've had to make some changes in our shooting systems. In some country sound clarity at volume would make no difference but for me it is critical and makes for a lot more fur. FP has been making head way on their sounds for sure and I probably came of a little more intense than I actually mean to but man it made a huge difference in what we had going on!
The WT prices seem to be fairly competitive with other top end callers these days but it used to be insanely expensive.
I didn't think that sound quality was nearly as big an issue till we started using the WT and we started pulling in older dogs from a lot farther away. Our call in percentage went way up as well and our shot range came in so close that we've had to make some changes in our shooting systems. In some country sound clarity at volume would make no difference but for me it is critical and makes for a lot more fur. FP has been making head way on their sounds for sure and I probably came of a little more intense than I actually mean to but man it made a huge difference in what we had going on!
The WT prices seem to be fairly competitive with other top end callers these days but it used to be insanely expensive.
Re: wildlife tech or foxpro?
I have been using the bottom-of-the-line FoxPro Spitfire since about mid-September. It is far from perfect -- the remote is my biggest gripe -- but it does have surprisingly good sound quality for such a small device. And the battery life is decent. It might have too little volume on the wind-swept prairies but in the eastern woodlands, it's loud enough, even if the gaps between the "volume numbers" is pretty big. If the quality of either the speaker or the FoxPro proprietary sound files is lacking, none of the whitetail deer, coyotes, turkeys, owls, redtailed hawks or crows I have called in had any complaints.
I bought mine from MidwayUSA with a $20-off coupon and I count it well worth $180. If mine mysteriously vanished into thin air, I'd spend good money to replace it with another of the same.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: UgashikBob</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I bought a WT caller 8 or 9 years ago because Foxpro didn't have decent wolf sounds then. I consider most of the features marketing gimmics and would buy a foxpro if they had working wolf sounds....</div></div>
I have downloaded Western River's entire sound library and use them in my FoxPro. It includes nine wolf calls, as well as calls for elephant, African lion, alligator and a whole lotta other noises to impress the neighbors with.
I have been using the bottom-of-the-line FoxPro Spitfire since about mid-September. It is far from perfect -- the remote is my biggest gripe -- but it does have surprisingly good sound quality for such a small device. And the battery life is decent. It might have too little volume on the wind-swept prairies but in the eastern woodlands, it's loud enough, even if the gaps between the "volume numbers" is pretty big. If the quality of either the speaker or the FoxPro proprietary sound files is lacking, none of the whitetail deer, coyotes, turkeys, owls, redtailed hawks or crows I have called in had any complaints.
I bought mine from MidwayUSA with a $20-off coupon and I count it well worth $180. If mine mysteriously vanished into thin air, I'd spend good money to replace it with another of the same.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: UgashikBob</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I bought a WT caller 8 or 9 years ago because Foxpro didn't have decent wolf sounds then. I consider most of the features marketing gimmics and would buy a foxpro if they had working wolf sounds....</div></div>
I have downloaded Western River's entire sound library and use them in my FoxPro. It includes nine wolf calls, as well as calls for elephant, African lion, alligator and a whole lotta other noises to impress the neighbors with.
Re: wildlife tech or foxpro?
The 24 bit sounds from FoxPro are pretty good and the TOA speakers outputs them well. The WT volume and sound is pretty impressive and I also believe that sound quality is a big key.
The 24 bit sounds from FoxPro are pretty good and the TOA speakers outputs them well. The WT volume and sound is pretty impressive and I also believe that sound quality is a big key.
Re: wildlife tech or foxpro?
You should see what a coyote does when you flip on a wolf howl when he is standing over the caller looking at it, they perty much turn inside out!
It's amazing how far you can pull wolves, that howl carries like none other!!
You should see what a coyote does when you flip on a wolf howl when he is standing over the caller looking at it, they perty much turn inside out!
It's amazing how far you can pull wolves, that howl carries like none other!!
Re: wildlife tech or foxpro?
I use the foxpro spitfire as well. On my 2nd one right now. I have a few complaints, but nothing that would make me regret the purchase. It is a nice small unit that I can throw in my bag. Good quality sound and it does exactly what I need it to do without all of the bells and whistles. I have no experiance with the WT.
I use the foxpro spitfire as well. On my 2nd one right now. I have a few complaints, but nothing that would make me regret the purchase. It is a nice small unit that I can throw in my bag. Good quality sound and it does exactly what I need it to do without all of the bells and whistles. I have no experiance with the WT.
Re: wildlife tech or foxpro?
i've been usin the foxpro prairie blaster, and just ordered the fury for a buddy, i had one of the speakers go out, (using it in about -20f) but foxpro's service and return time is great, they had it back to me within 2wks. never used a WT, but wouldn't mind given it a shot, just to campare the two.
i've been usin the foxpro prairie blaster, and just ordered the fury for a buddy, i had one of the speakers go out, (using it in about -20f) but foxpro's service and return time is great, they had it back to me within 2wks. never used a WT, but wouldn't mind given it a shot, just to campare the two.
Re: wildlife tech or foxpro?
Fox pro, and dont look back. I love mine. FX5 sweet rig. 150 sounds on it.
Fox pro, and dont look back. I love mine. FX5 sweet rig. 150 sounds on it.
Re: wildlife tech or foxpro?
I've had and have several. The one I use mainly is the CS-24.
The only call I ever regret getting rid of was the scorpion. I liked that I could put it in my coat pocket and not have to tote it around by hand or in a bag. Plus the remote it had was more comfortable to me.
I've had and have several. The one I use mainly is the CS-24.
The only call I ever regret getting rid of was the scorpion. I liked that I could put it in my coat pocket and not have to tote it around by hand or in a bag. Plus the remote it had was more comfortable to me.
Re: wildlife tech or foxpro?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: rebelbell24</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I've had and have several. The one I use mainly is the CS-24.
The only call I ever regret getting rid of was the scorpion. I liked that I could put it in my coat pocket and not have to tote it around by hand or in a bag. Plus the remote it had was more comfortable to me. </div></div>
Same here... I upgraded from the Scorpion with the SP55 to the CS24 and while the CS24 sounds better I really miss the versatility of the Scorpion. The SP55 sounds very good and is not a compromise but even with just the small speaker on the Scorpion unit the critters never seemed to mind the difference... I will probably go back with the Scorpion once I've had my kicks with this one.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: rebelbell24</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I've had and have several. The one I use mainly is the CS-24.
The only call I ever regret getting rid of was the scorpion. I liked that I could put it in my coat pocket and not have to tote it around by hand or in a bag. Plus the remote it had was more comfortable to me. </div></div>
Same here... I upgraded from the Scorpion with the SP55 to the CS24 and while the CS24 sounds better I really miss the versatility of the Scorpion. The SP55 sounds very good and is not a compromise but even with just the small speaker on the Scorpion unit the critters never seemed to mind the difference... I will probably go back with the Scorpion once I've had my kicks with this one.
Re: wildlife tech or foxpro?
Another vote for FoxPro. I've been using my FX5 for 3 years now and never had an issue.
Another vote for FoxPro. I've been using my FX5 for 3 years now and never had an issue.
Similar threads
Accessories
Accutac and trigger tech
