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Hi all.

I've been looking at the Foxpro range but can't make my mind up what to get.

Any recomendations?

Cheers

Danny.

Go to Bushwear.co.uk and get a Foxpro Spitfire £130 Refurbed unit, bloody great piece of kit.

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Had the spitfire for well over 3 years a great bit of kit, just got the foxpro jack for it and boy doesn't work, stuck the caller out in a open field about 100 yards away and watched 3 foxs come in, had 2 but the third oe wa motto be seen,

 

Ps, this was in broad daylight.

 

RSC

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Check out a book written by Patrick Hook. Really good read, his methods of calling work really well.

 

It charters the annual turn of a Foxer, so month by month calling techniques.

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Spitfire good bits of kit for the money, although my remote went haywire (3-4years old) so £70 for a fresh one.

 

Keep the caller elevated toget best communication between caller and remote. It has a 1/4" mount underneath so a foot long bit of threaded bar sprayed black is what I use.

 

Use quality rechargeable batteries and have a spare set handy.

 

(I'll put my spitfire up for sale in the new year, new remote, two sd cards, connection wire, spare battery cradle box and instructions)

 

Run a scorpion now which has 200calls on (twice the spitfire price!) many will never be used though had two occasions lately when watching through the thermal a fox took no notice whatsoever of the usual calls (mating calls, distress calls etc) but one came into raccoon squabble and the other adolescent coyote distress... So you just never no what will work!

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Spitfire good bits of kit for the money, although my remote went haywire (3-4years old) so £70 for a fresh one.

Keep the caller elevated toget best communication between caller and remote. It has a 1/4" mount underneath so a foot long bit of threaded bar sprayed black is what I use.

Use quality rechargeable batteries and have a spare set handy.

(I'll put my spitfire up for sale in the new year, new remote, two sd cards, connection wire, spare battery cradle box and instructions)

Run a scorpion now which has 200calls on (twice the spitfire price!) many will never be used though had two occasions lately when watching through the thermal a fox took no notice whatsoever of the usual calls (mating calls, distress calls etc) but one came into raccoon squabble and the other adolescent coyote distress... So you just never no what will work!

Hi

 

How much will you be selling your spitfire for?:)

 

Cheers

 

Danny.

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Had the spitfire for some year it was real good, then upgraded to the firestorm and the sounds and sound quality is much better ;) it called a nice dog in this morning with in minutes of setting up :)

Also a preditor intiser is well worth £35 off eBay

 

Gaz

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I had a new spitfire and sent it back then had a replacement new one and that was the same,i had trouble with the remotes and the distance it would work from.it was ok if it was in front of the car but any further and it wouldn't work.(bloody crap)so I upgraded to the FoxPro fury and well happy.i would never have a spitfire.

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i have been using FoxPro scorpion for 3-4 years now to great effect

its a great piece of kit and you can stick it in your pocket

One downside with it is the short range that it can be worked via the remote

To get the best range you have to keep the batteries fully charged and try to get it off the ground a bit.

Also a pity you cant just plug it in and charge it. You have to remove and charge 8 batteries every time you charge it.

 

I have just bought a icotec GC500, seems like a very good call with easy to use remote and good realistic calls on it including many different fox calls

also very good range, one guy tested it on you tube and it was working well beyond the advertised 300 yards.

 

Bushwear are buying in these refurbished FoxPro callers from the USA in the hundreds and they are just flying off the shelves

Only thing to watch out is the warranty period

When I bought the scorpion it had a 5 year warranty, but they don't do that any more.

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Different league, iv had both and Foxpro has a lot more quality

But does the quality transpose to getting more foxes or better reliability? Hell of a price difference between £180 for the gc500 and £429 for the Foxpro crossfire.

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