Buying a Coyote E-Caller

Velvet ears

10 pointer
Nov 6, 2013
1,150
West KY
Help me decide which to buy. I'm leaning toward the Johnny Stewart but I don't know the full feature benefits of each.

1. Icotec Gen2 GC350
2. Foxpro Patriot
3. Johnny Stewart Executioner
 

riverboss

12 pointer
Jan 26, 2009
8,675
northern ky
I would go fox pro I have 3 of them one of them is 20 yrs old and still works great last time I used it the other is maybe 10 and same thing!
I have owned a couple Johnny Stewart's and they were junk.
Check out all predator calls.com they have refurbished ones from time to time.
Don't know about the other one but they look cheap built to me.
 

woodsman92

12 pointer
Feb 16, 2019
2,162
Russell Co
I’ve owned a icotec gc300, a foxpro patriot, and just bought a refurbished foxpro x24 from allpredatorcalls.com.
My vote goes to the foxpro, just a better unit over the icotec. Better remote, more sounds available. If you order from allpredatorcalls you get like 35 premium sounds of your choice that they will load to the call for you, and that’s on top of the free sounds already on the call.
 

EastKy0076

6 pointer
Feb 13, 2020
137
East ky
Fox pro I have for 10 years stills works. Johnny Stewart I had took cassette tapes and it worked good for years. Most recently I bought a rough neck from lucky duck, it seems to look more fragile but I used it in Kansas for two weeks and killed a pile of coyotes.
 

Velvet ears

10 pointer
Nov 6, 2013
1,150
West KY
The reviews
I’ve owned a icotec gc300, a foxpro patriot, and just bought a refurbished foxpro x24 from allpredatorcalls.com.
My vote goes to the foxpro, just a better unit over the icotec. Better remote, more sounds available. If you order from allpredatorcalls you get like 35 premium sounds of your choice that they will load to the call for you, and that’s on top of the free sounds already on the call.
The reviews I read said the speaker needed to be louder. Is that a problem. I'm not hunting in an area where I need to call from a mile away. It will mostly be 600 yards or less.
 

riverboss

12 pointer
Jan 26, 2009
8,675
northern ky
#1 reason people don't call in coyotes is not hunting the wind!
#2 reason is calling to loud!
This isn't Kansas you don't need a call that will blast a mile away, they can hear way better than you can.
Me and Beauhunter heard some fool calling 3/4 of a mile away a few weeks ago it sounded like he was only 200 yrds away, the only thing he was doing was running every coyote in the country off!
They aren't stupid and I give it 2-3 yrs and alot of guns and calls and night hunting stuff will be for sale cheap.
 

woodsman92

12 pointer
Feb 16, 2019
2,162
Russell Co
The reviews

The reviews I read said the speaker needed to be louder. Is that a problem. I'm not hunting in an area where I need to call from a mile away. It will mostly be 600 yards or less.
I think @riverboss had it right. The patriot probably is loud enough, but I wanted more so got the x24. May not be necessary, but now I start my stands out low and ramp up pretty loud after a while with no action then back down. Just to throw that sound out across another ridge for a minute.
But my icotec vs foxpro the foxpro was just as loud if not louder.
 

childersb24

8 pointer
Mar 25, 2010
719
Everyone has a fox pro . I’d get something else. In my neck of the woods I need different sounds that’s why I’d choose something besides fox pro if it were me. I feel like them coyotes hear the same sound all the time so I try to be different.
 

woodsman92

12 pointer
Feb 16, 2019
2,162
Russell Co
Everyone has a fox pro . I’d get something else. In my neck of the woods I need different sounds that’s why I’d choose something besides fox pro if it were me. I feel like them coyotes hear the same sound all the time so I try to be different.
As an owner of a foxpro, I agree to an extent. Coyotes are very smart and become educated to a certain sound quickly. But I will also say foxpro has a big library of sounds to get away from the overplayed sounds and has recently teamed up with mfk so you can purchase those sounds too and program them onto your foxpro. And there’s also numerous other company’s selling sounds you can program onto your foxpro. I’ve seen guys that had 1000 sounds on a foxpro shockwave. I’m not downing other company’s, I got a friend with a lucky duck and it’s nice too, but I do believe foxpro has the best quality of caller and can put about any sound on one.
 

cityslicker

8 pointer
Jan 11, 2010
925
Hart county
Foxpro hands down. If you want the best sounds order from mfkgamecalls.com and have MFK sounds loaded on it. Torry the owner records real coyote sounds from "pet" coyotes that he's interacted with since they were pups. Check them out on YouTube to see the sounds used on hunts, MFK Game Calls on YouTube.
 

Meatstick

12 pointer
Oct 25, 2013
5,975
Washington County
Everyone has a fox pro . I’d get something else. In my neck of the woods I need different sounds that’s why I’d choose something besides fox pro if it were me. I feel like them coyotes hear the same sound all the time so I try to be different.
I have both, but my Primos Alpha Dogg kills more coyotes around here.
Exactly for the reason you stated.
Something to think about for sure
 

Velvet ears

10 pointer
Nov 6, 2013
1,150
West KY
I stopped by Cabela's today and bought the Foxpro caller on sale. Got it home and put new good batteries in it. Turned it on and the calls sound amazing and loud as it needs to be. Only problem I have is you can only reach about 30 yards with the remote. Do I have a defective caller or is this normal?
 


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