Proudly Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Well Steve I think its about time you helped us lads who took your advice, bought a primos call & failed miserably lol. How about a video showing us your technique? I've had little success & sound more like a duck than a crow..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaniel Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 I can't find my call which is very annoying as I keep all my gear together Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Well Steve I think its about time you helped us lads who took your advice, bought a primos call & failed miserably lol. How about a video showing us your technique? I've had little success & sound more like a duck than a crow..... The problem with doing an instructional video is that I can't show you how hard to bite on the rubber tube, or how to blow air into the caller, or how to do the 'grrrr' sound. All you would get is the sounds that I produce, and they are very good. I can only suggest that you practice as much as possible, and don't give up. The Primos is an excellent caller and I would'nt change it for anything else. The main reason being is that I can call in different birds, not only Crows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proudly Posted June 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 I've sat practicing in my back garden, much to my partners annoyance. I've done a lot of calling of foxes over the years using various calls but mostly using my hands with great success. I'm pretty adept at making different calls & adapting my techniques but find I can get very little variation with the crow call. Theres a lot of corvids where I live, always crows passing but only once has a crow taken notice of my different calls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandalf Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Mine works superbly. If Steve can't explain it I'll have ago. Hold it - Grrrrr - be very gentle with it. Practice every day for about a year. Simples hah? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proudly Posted June 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Lol.....only another 10 months to go then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxy bingo Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 if you go on you tube and type in primos crow call there,s a couple of vids in there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 I bought one on the strength of the praises lavished on them by Steve. Have to say I think they're great bit of kit. I sounded a bit duck like initially and mate was a bit suspect at whether I'd bought the wrong call when we first tried it last year as each time I called a bloody train seemed to trundle by! I'm nowhere near perfect with it and have a lot to learn (still reading instruction for the various calls off the backing card) but have on occasion turned crows, or it could have been the decoys, which would appear to have otherwise passed us by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 I bought one on the strength of the praises lavished on them by Steve. Have to say I think they're great bit of kit. I sounded a bit duck like initially and mate was a bit suspect at whether I'd bought the wrong call when we first tried it last year as each time I called a bloody train seemed to trundle by! I'm nowhere near perfect with it and have a lot to learn (still reading instruction for the various calls off the backing card) but have on occasion turned crows, or it could have been the decoys, which would appear to have otherwise passed us by. Take no notice of the instructions on the card. Juts go a listen to the birds calling and try and mimic them. You'll get there in the end. Sometimes, I have used the caller and the Crows have turned away. I find it good to call them in from a distance. Just enough to attract their attention. When they get closer to your decoys, stop calling and let them come into range. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Frenchieboy Posted June 5, 2014 Report Share Posted June 5, 2014 (edited) Here's another video I found on Youtube for how to use the Primos Crow Caller. It is maybe not the best of videos but it will hopefully give people who are new to crow callers an idea of how to get the sounding reasonably right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fpfb5VKpfA Edited June 5, 2014 by Frenchieboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandalf Posted June 5, 2014 Report Share Posted June 5, 2014 Take no notice of the instructions on the card. Juts go a listen to the birds calling and try and mimic them. You'll get there in the end. Sometimes, I have used the caller and the Crows have turned away. I find it good to call them in from a distance. Just enough to attract their attention. When they get closer to your decoys, stop calling and let them come into range. Couldn't have put it better myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proudly Posted June 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2014 Just been out to new shoot with mate, I used his spare SBS that I've never used & is too short lol (excuses). I couldn't hit a thing but I had the crows coming in for a look, mate dropped one & I called frantically. They went mental coming back in circling but still too far for me to get a shot off. I've noticed these crows sounded similar to the primos but the ones at home have a deeper, raspy caw....if that makes sense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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