10Turkeys Report post Posted November 25, 2020 I was thinking more along the lines of Jeff Sievers. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Outdoor Writer Report post Posted November 25, 2020 1 hour ago, 10Turkeys said: I was thinking more along the lines of Jeff Sievers. Jeff was of the same era as Fred. He was a good taxidermist, too. A couple of my friends had him do their work. I met him once at some gathering but don't recall where. 🙄 Marc Plunkett, who mounted all of my critters from Africa and New Zealand, worked for Jeff until his untimely death in a car wreck. Though I never used them, two other local taxidermists that were well liked during that era were Bob James and Bob Hancock. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Outdoor Writer Report post Posted November 26, 2020 On 11/18/2020 at 4:35 PM, Swivelhead said: Do not recall whether or not Sam himself wrote any articles but do remember reading about his technique. Sam advocated calling softly, expecially the first few sequences IIRC. Beyond that, don't remember much. Calling in the 50's had to be insane. Before packing it to ship to the buyer, I was leafing thru the VARMINT HUNTERS DIGEST, written by Jim Dougherty. I ran across these two passages, in regards to Sam's calling technique, as you mentioned. "The real tipoff to this was all wrapped up in Sam Dudley, a good friend of mine, who many, myself included, consider to be the finest caller ever. Dudley would enter a contest on occasion and he could play the game by the rules, one of which was to blow the call as loud and as hard as you can. A lot of money points ride on the volume. But things were different when you made a stand with Sam in the field. Volume wasn't as important as subtle technique; a good bit of perfected coaxing style and a natural talent to know just what bush to set himself before the party got started." ___________________________________________________________________________________ "Dudley made the next stand after spotting Wright and me about 30 yards on each side of his location, a bit farther due to a natural ridge that formed an inverted broken Y. It was typical of Dudley, putting us where we had the edge and would no doubt get the shooting. When Dudley started calling -- the first time I heard him -- I almost smirked. His pattern was subdued, artful in its pleading dialogue but a far cry from what I expected, especially after being dealt with severly for the past two years by his son, the strongest caller the sport has ever known. Dudley's call was almost lazy by comparison. To me, it didn't convey excitement but it was long on realism. Wright and I dropped three dogs on that stand. I said something to Dudley about it as we carried our game back to the truck. 'Son,' he said, 'we're going to do a lot of calling in the next three days, no sense in getting licked and wore out in the first few hours. There's lots of country and lots of coyotes. They all hear real good and I'll last a lot longer this way.' It was a lesson in style garnished with a good deal of class." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trophyseeker Report post Posted December 2, 2020 On 11/25/2020 at 12:07 PM, Outdoor Writer said: Here's a good article written in 2009 (a year before his death) about Jim. It paints a nice image of who he was. Local wildlife photographer has seen – and shot – pretty much everything Sorry for the late reply. Been a bit under the weather lately. After you mentioned AZ Highways, I looked through several I had from the 1990's and found some photos Tallon took. He was pretty good at it. It's also neat that he influenced your life so much. 👍 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
