TexasTexas95
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I started out spoiled with a buddy's Foxpro callin in a few dogs. I thought, [beeep], its just a speaker so I bought the thirty dollar remote caller at academy thinking I could actually use it the same way. I bought a government cottontail hand call as a back up for giggles and hung it on my neck just in case. So, on my first time out alone, I put the little remote caller out about fifteen yards away where I could see it and when I pressed the button, nothing happened. I got up and put it at about five yards thinking that would definitely be close enough to transmit a signal. Annnghhh, wrong!...Nothing... And not believing in hand calls too much I figured I couldn't do much worse using the hand call and started giving it heck and tootin on that sucker like crazy. Five minutes in, I was just about to give up when I see a coyote at about a hundred yards just lookin at me. Bang! Down Right There! End of story. The Government cottontail has been my only back up call since, and I have a FX5 now. The little cottontail has done me great more times than I can count and even though energizer is great, the ultimate back up is a hand call. Never leave home without it!