Foxpro or Minaska opinions please

[JakeLeg]

Looking for the best caller,finally giving in to electonic caller, Never used one always use my sceery mouth calls. For those who have owned or used either whats the pros and cons.Looking for call mainly for coons,bobcats and coyotes. Thanks Jake

[edge]

I own both(and have owned others)minaska wins several times over,hands down.Everything is better with the Minaska.
that being said my FX3 is now being upgraded toan FX5,so I'll let you know.I really wouldnt part with either call at any price because I use them for different applications,wash calling for instance is usually not the same washes all the time so I call on closer stands,lots of hiking,there I prefer the foxpro.

Edge

[JakeLeg]

Thanks Edge,is the minaska just a better built call, is it more rugged or what.

[lb]

Well, as far as better built, that's a difficult question? The Minaska uses a very sturdy case, commercially available. I think Pelican makes it? Does that beg the question that a Foxpro is flimsy in any way? Hardly.

The thing that attracts me to the Minaska is the fact that they offer the whole library of sounds with it, at no additional cost. Apparently, lifetime? Are these sounds the be all and end all? Not really, but if you cannot find suficient usable sounds out of the 100 on the caller, you aren't trying very hard. You can use your own sounds, apparently there is no proprietary restrictions and you don't need to send your call in for an upgrade.

What Edge said about the portability of the Foxpro is a desirable feature, and one that you can get from the Minaska if you buy the compact M1 which has the same components, in a smaller case, and uses rechargable AA batteries.

So, looking for the best caller is a bit complicated. Best meaning what, exactly? There are several available, including the Wildlife Technologies unit. We all have to make choices, Rolls Royce, Mercedes, Cadillac, Saturn, Toyota, Kia. Just pick your features and price range.

Good hunting. LB

[edge]

**is the minaska just a better built call, is it more rugged or what. **

As lb mentioned,the sounds are numerous and easy to obtain,forever or so with the minaska;but the FX5 has 200 or so sounds........both remotes are friendly,both function in extreme cold and heat.
Volume wise,the minaska is heads above the foxpro when you get the big speaker.

Edge

[JakeLeg]

thanks boys, wasn't trying to pick each apart,just was going to get one and hadn't heard of the minaska only fox pro. Thanks Jake

[Cal Taylor]

The FoxPro also has a big speaker available. And I think FoxPro has a better overall sound list. I would rather pay a little for better sounds.

[lb]

Oh haha, Cal. How much do those better sounds cost ya? (insert smiley) I would not dispute the fact that one machine might have "better" sounds, such as the WT unit, or studio quality sound, as Bill Martz is always saying. My only point, as one that pays for the gear I use, is that you get 100 sounds on your Minaska and there is no extra charge, or a need to send it back to have more installed. I don't know if that is required with the newer Foxpro or the newer WT? The word on the street is that Foxpro has some very good sounds.

It may be beside the point, but the amount of sounds available seems to me that there is a tendancy to use them? I don't know how I ever got by with one sound on a cassette for thirty minutes?

Good hunting. LB

[richc]

Speaking of sounds, I sure would like to have two or three of those coyote vocalizations that Cal Taylor recorded. I am betting that those sounds are real coyote killers.

[lb]

me too

[Cal Taylor]

I do have some new "interesting" ones. I called in three yearling coyotes the other day, shot one, called them back, shot another, stopped the third and shot it. The other trapper that was with me did say that he had never seen a sound handle yearlings like that and that there was no way that he could have done it with a mouth call. And this is a guy that has done this stuff for a living for several years.

[lb]

Stop teasing, dang it!

[richc]

Cal Taylor,
Was it the famous ESTRUS chirp?