Sniper, I had a freind who bought one of the Phantoms and was totaly unsatisfied. He claimed it didn't have enough volume. Volume is something you never think you need, until the wind picks up. I listened to it on more than one occation, and I would agree with Dawgdad that it sounded rather un-natural, just too short of sound loop. The most important thing I have to ask is, where do you plan to hunt? Here in the southwest, we need, I would say, fairly high volume to cover large, wide open spaces. I myself use several different elec. calls. I have the tape player and I also use the Foxpro. The Foxpro is probably the closes thing I have to a Phantom. They cost a lot more, but are worth it. If you have never used an elec. caller and are on a tight budget, get yourself a Cass Creek. For a small unit it carries incredible volume and is extremely handy. I seldom hunt without one in my bag. I am not too fond of speaker wires. It is a pain in my butt to roll it up after every set and then keep it from getting hung on every bush on the way back to the Jeep. Check out the Foxpro, if you can afford it, it is the way to go. I have never had any problems with them and have called in coyotes in wind I thought had shut-down my hunt. Best of all, you can have it custom loaded with the sounds you pick, and they carry hundreds of sounds to choose from. You can solve the problem of speaker wire by going to a remote control unit. Remote control is always the ticket, in my book. The Johnny Stewart Attractor is a romote controled unit at a small price, it works, but then again, it doesn't have a lot of volume. Best way to use it, I have found, is to mouth call until I spot the critter, then switch on the Attractor to get the attention away from me, deadly. Best advise I can give is to go to the sporting goods store and listen to the unit. Try the volume and different sounds, try different models, then decide. One thing I can say, "I have been down this road and eventually, if you get hooked on calling critters, you will get the Foxpro." On the decoy, I went to a pet shop-super store and found a cat toy that was a plastic ball with a string and critter attached to in. Inside the ball was an unbalanced battery operated gyro. I attanched it to a spring and covered it with an unstuffed easter bunny. The cat toy cost me $5 and the bunny cost $3, and it really works great. A word of caution: be prepared to defend its life. Good luck and happy hunting to you all.............
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