Hoochie Mamma cow call
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09-29-2003, 08:27 AM
#15
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Walled Lake MI USA
Posts: 73
RE: Hoochie Mamma cow call
I tested the Hootchie mama long enough in the store that I bought it - I will see how it does in conjuction with the hyper lip I have used previously - I bougt a bugle too - now i need to buy some time to practice.
09-30-2003, 10:54 PM
#16
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Waialua HI USA
Posts: 102
RE: Hoochie Mamma cow call
Several guys in our camp had Hoochie Mamas last year and got good results. I' m using one this year.
On my rookie hunt in ' 96 I used a Woodswise Hyper Hot Cow Call and called in a five by five. Everyone was suspect of it especially since I was a newbie. The next year everyone had one. Since then we have had good success with it as well. It has stopped running herds, frozen cows in place, and gotten cows to come towards us in addition to attracting bulls.
The potential advantage of the Hoochie Mama is that all you have to do is squeeze it. The other more traditional calls often require you to wipe off the reed when too much saliva gets on it.
On my rookie hunt in ' 96 I used a Woodswise Hyper Hot Cow Call and called in a five by five. Everyone was suspect of it especially since I was a newbie. The next year everyone had one. Since then we have had good success with it as well. It has stopped running herds, frozen cows in place, and gotten cows to come towards us in addition to attracting bulls.
The potential advantage of the Hoochie Mama is that all you have to do is squeeze it. The other more traditional calls often require you to wipe off the reed when too much saliva gets on it.
10-03-2003, 05:42 AM
#18
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Walled Lake MI USA
Posts: 73
RE: Hoochie Mamma cow call
After using the Hootchie Mamma for a while I figured out why I didn' t like the guy' s sound that I was hunting with last year (see post above) - he wasn' t depressing the plunger in the inside enough to get the lower end tones that gives it the true cow sound...his was always to high and squeeky - I am converted
10-03-2003, 10:55 AM
#19
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Midvale, Id USA
Posts: 406
RE: Hoochie Mamma cow call
My brother and I found ourselves 150 yards apart with a 5X5 bull between us. I was mewing with a primo' s hyperlip, he was using the hoochie mamma. The bull was trotting toward me at first. He stopped 60 yards away from me looking for the cow he heard. My brother then mewed with the hoochie momma. The bull turned and ran right at him, stopping 20 yards away for a nice broadside shot. I went out and bought a hoochie momma to compliment my hyperlip after that.
One thing I have found since is that using a reed call and a push call together can give a good impression of multiple cows. A single hunter can then sound like a small herd to attract an interested bull. I called in a lead cow using this same combination for my hunitng partner. We were using the combination of 2 hoochie momma' s and my hyperlip. She came in for a broadside shot at 40 yards in open terrain with little cover. He was estatic to get this cow for his first ever bow kill.
One thing I have found since is that using a reed call and a push call together can give a good impression of multiple cows. A single hunter can then sound like a small herd to attract an interested bull. I called in a lead cow using this same combination for my hunitng partner. We were using the combination of 2 hoochie momma' s and my hyperlip. She came in for a broadside shot at 40 yards in open terrain with little cover. He was estatic to get this cow for his first ever bow kill.