Squirrel Calls or Apps?

[Fenian]

Hi

hace any of you used squirrel calls or an app and just left your phone playing the call?

Any true success in that these actually work??

This is just for backyard shooting of squirrels, I’m not deep in the woods or anything so I feel like I need something to help them along rather than wait all day 

 

[Hunt4Dinner]

Had a friend use a squirrel call not too long ago. It didn't work from what I saw. In your back yard the best thing is a pile of corn or bird seed or whatever they seem into. They'll come to easy food long before an app or call and it will cause them to stay in one area longer for a shot.

 

[Fenian]

Yeh I have a feeder out back. Just need more passing through the neighborhood I guess

 

[bandg]

When I was a youngster in the 60's we used the little things that make toy dolls squeek. Cut up a toy doll that squeeks when you squeeze it and take out the little silver thing about the size of a nickel. Put in in your lips and blow lightly. I guess maybe it sounds like a baby squirrel in distress. I remember them often running up close enough to touch.

 

[Gunny994]

https://decoypro.com/squirrel-calls-squirrel-hunting-calls-app/

try this one

 

[Bob_O]

I use one for red squirrels..........it works great either in the woods or in a yard. I just got a "request for services" today at a private residence. I'll go there in the morning. I did check it late this afternoon and it turns out this person has about 10 bird feeders and lots of red squirrels. Being it was late there was no activity so I broke out the app on my phone and played an alarm call. Two chattered back from the trees and I got those. I shouldn't have to use it much tomorrow being they should come to the yard/feeders on their own.

It works for me anyway.

 

[JimNM]

The call I use does not attract the game, rather it makes them peak the head out of where they are hiding. A subtle but important difference.



Decoy Pro as mentioned earlier.

 

[TripleG]

I have a Primos call and it works well enough to get a squirrel, that may have hidden, to reveal its location.

 

[Nutcracker]

Try the Haydel distress call. I have used some version of this for years & you better be careful. I find it works real well on female fox squirrels in early Fall. It will work some on Grays, but not as effective. How I use mine is, get to a spot in the woods stay still for awhile. Get behind a tree, flap your hat against your leg , shake a small bush & blow on this call. I actually inhale/exhale. Sometimes it will locate squirrels & they will bark & disclose their location, sometimes they will run over you. It is a little unnerving when a 3 pound mother fox squirrel it running straight at you, but I have had it happen a lot. In my area it does not work now, I only use it the first 5 weeks of season, starting mid September. when I use this call I actually put a dot sight on my rifle or a set of iron sights. Cause it is hard to get a running squirrel in view of a high power scope. I mount these sights beside my scope on the base. I have no luck with any other squirrel call, just scare them off or make them more nervous than they already are. 

 

[Fenian]

Ok will try the Squirrel Pro App 

Will report back 

 

[Guest]

Click 2 quarters together to sound like other squirrels eating/cracking nuts .

Drives em crazy, to think other squirrels may be eating raiding their stash !!!

 

[Fenian]

Lol

i did try the quarters together trick, and I watched the guy leg it from tree to tree in the opposite direction. Lol

I got the app and tried it today with a Bluetooth speaker, and no joy!

havent seen a squirrel in 3-4 days despite a full assortment of seeds and nuts 

 

[cea1960]

I have used a free app in tandem with a bluetooth speaker. I've placed the speaker under a tree in the yard and activated the app from inside the house. Didn't call them in, but got them to sit still long enough to get a shot off.