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Originally Posted by charlie cleveland
what kind of devise would you boys recommend to use on those crows...be sides a mouth call.... charlie
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Charlie the most important thing you need in this order; quality of recorded sounds, reproduction of those sounds, player battery life.
Johnny Stewart brand sounds are hands down the best, particularly Crows fighting with Owl, Death Cry of a Crow, Crow Come Here and Single Excited Crow.
The current technology is digital, the dominant brand is Foxpro. Their units range from $250 to $1000. All but the most expensive digital units are designed for predator hunting, battery life is too short for serious crow hunting and sound reproduction is not as good as using a remote horn style speaker. The older technology, portable cassette players like the Johnny Stewart 612 and 512 along with units like the Lohman 2000 offer the best performance for the money. Although out of production, lightly used and like new units can be found on Ebay and they sell for $35 to $100 bucks. Most will need new batteries, they used sealed lead acid alarm system batteries that can be found at any electrical supply store for about $15. They are easy to install. Cassette tapes are getting harder to find but again careful watching of Ebay will result in success. I record my own tapes from a Johnny Stewart Crow CD.
The sealed lead acid batteries in these cassette players can run up to 20 hours on a charge. The digital units can't come close to that amount of play time as they use AA batteries.