Target of opportunity.

[TStone]

After hunting two blue wildebeest this morning I spotted a black backed jackal. She disappeared behind an old dam wall and I set up my .375 H&H on the shooting sticks and started to make some distressed hare/puppy sounds. She peeked over the dam wall 120m away and I put a 300gr SBC bullet in her neck just below her chin. Not a jackal rifle/caliber but it will do in a pinch.

[aimpoint]

After hunting two blue wildebeest this morning I spotted a black backed jackal. She disappeared behind an old dam wall and I set up my .375 H&H on the shooting sticks and started to make some distressed hare/puppy sounds. She peeked over the dam wall 120m away and I put a 300gr SBC bullet in her neck just below her chin. Not a jackal rifle/caliber but it will do in a pinch.

She never knew what hit her. Good shooting


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[Ds J]

How do you make the sounds - squeaky sounds like inverted whistling?

[TStone]

How do you make the sounds - squeaky sounds like inverted whistling?

Exactly like that.

[Adoons]

Confirmed. TStone is not flinching from harder recoil rifles and believe it is needed to use enough gun for things that can scratch and bite.

Good hunting and shooting.

[Ds J]

Exactly like that.

Thanks. This can get really interesting in our area.

Next related questions:

1. How far can a jackal hear such a sound?

2. How easily do they react to such sounds?

[TStone]

Thanks. This can get really interesting in our area.

Next related questions:

1. How far can a jackal hear such a sound?

2. How easily do they react to such sounds?

There are people on this forum who knows a hell of a lot more about hunting jackal than I do, Geno is one of them.
To your first question, I guess not very far but at least 120-150m. It obviously also depend on the volume you can achieve.
How easily they react depends on the jackal and its level of education and experience, this one was a youngster who, probably, have never been called or shot at.
I normally carry a jackal call, like a whistle, around my neck when hunting, it is useful not only for calling predators but also getting the attention of other animals. Sadly, I've managed to lose mine and need to replace it.

[Skaaphaas]

You can make a tenterfield whistle easily enough with the lid of a tin can.

I’m not sure how effective it is on jackal but the sound is basically like that of a distressed rabbit.

[Messor]

How do you make the sounds - squeaky sounds like inverted whistling?

Ds, when you whistle you extend your lips and the noise are made purely between the lips.
When you make these "small animal noises" you basically put your lips against your teeth and make squicky sucking noises, not it's not an inverted whistle.

Some okes are damn good at it.

[Zuku]

and make squicky sucking noises, .. Some okes are damn good at it.

at sucking or noises?