Callers

[Aruld]

I imagine callers have been used in a basic way for a very long time but as a commercial product when did callers become commonly used in hunts?

[OldMtnMan]

12,000 years.

[Aruld]

Quite some time then. Lol.

[OldMtnMan]

They were whistles in the beginning. Later they started to make callers from bones. About 6500 years ago.

Yeah, i'd say they've been around awhile. Personally, I don't use them, but that's me. I don't like tricking the animal i'm hunting

[Aruld]

Thanks for the info. I'm undecided in whether to use them.

[DanthemanBoone]

Callers and scents used in both game and real life are used to bring the animal towards you and increase the chance of a successful hunt.
Whether or not you use them depends on what you wish to achieve in terms of your own satisfaction.
In real life I use only my own vocal cords to call red deer during the rut. ... but have used shed antlers on a few occasions and rattled some bushes with some degree of success.

Here in New Zealand hunters tend to carry their animals on their Backs, so after a carry with a smelly old stag or boar you will tend to smell just like one.

When working as a pest destruction trapper I would use the bladder from a female rabbit to put the urine on my gin traps. That resulted in the occasional male rabbits actually being caught by the nose.