Squirrel calls

[richhodg66]

Does anyone use one for hunting squirrels? I've always wondered. I enjoy squirrel hunting and this year while on a deer stand could hear so many barking in the woods all around me, just got me to wondering.

[trapper9260]

I use one and also I use my mouth also.it calls some in.The caller I use was my dad's .We used it when him and I had hunted together.

[skeettx]

I used coins on the serrated edge.
No squirrels in Amarillo
But grew up in North Louisiana
Mike

[richhodg66]

Funny, I pulled up a youtube video of a guy using one, and one of the cats got real excited and started looking around the computer to see where the sound was coming from, then on the guy's video. a cat came in to his call. Maybe these things work better on cats, LOL.

It's usually pretty easy around here to find a good spot, sit and get a few, but the call might be fun to try.

[mozeppa]

i use my mouth.

even called one up to me at home.

i said "come here rocky...i have a cookie for you".

and come he does!

[EMC45]

I have a bellows call. It barks nicely and gets them sounding off so I can then put a stalk on and blast them. I have a distress whistle too. It replicates an injured baby squirrel. It really gets them chattering and tail wagging. I have used both to great effect.

Lately I have been sucking air through my front teeth for a whistle and that gets them treed and tail wagging too. I do it mainly at work at the Park when I'm walking from place to place and it works well. They get excited.

[SSGOldfart]

I've used a box call home made works best in the spring time,

[Thundarstick]

I've found that all they do is let every squirrel in hearing distance know I'm in the woods!

[NyFirefighter357]

Yes, I've used the bellows barker type some have a squealer in the barrel as well. I've had them work pretty well. I recently found them on clearance at K-Mart. I bought every one for a dollar or two each.

[Omega]

I have a mouth call, it's a steel one the size of a quarter with a hole in the middle. It worked well in NC, but just so so here in TN, so I guess it's more for fox squirrels than greys.

[marshall623]

Earlier today I tried a mouse squeaker on the greys behind the house . It got them raising cain pretty good . I could pinpint tree rats that I hadn't seen , of the ones right at me 1 totally ignored me the other 3 high tailed it to the den.

[richhodg66]

I'm gonna try one soon and see. Usually not much trouble finding a few to shoot, but the calling sounds like fun.

[Rick Hodges]

I have used two different types for many years....the first was a wooden box with a brass plate...you ran a rasp like striker over the plate. It made a noise not unlike rubbing coin edges. Herter's made it. It worked to an extent. Somewhere along the way I lost it.

I do have a small bellows call with a squeaker that I picked up. The bellows when rapped with the palm or against the leg does a nice job of imitating a barking squirrel. The squeaker is mouth blown and supposed to imitate the distress call of a squirrel. The barker works nicely, the squeaker just scares the heck out of them.

Give them a try, they are a lot of fun. I love easing through the woods with a 22, hunting squirrels.

[Jeff Michel]

Mr. Squirrel mouth call is the best I've found so far, A Primos bellows is a close second.