We
are pleased to
present the FOXPRO Custom Shop. Over the years, FOXPRO has designed a
number of special callers, speakers, and decoys for various government
agencies, professional and recreational hunters upon special request.
We have also assembled a number of prototype units to prove conceptual
ideas that have never been revealed to the general public.
The
following
pictures are a small sample of the products that we have made in the
past for customers or for conceptual purposes. These items are shown to
give you an idea of our willingness to think "outside the box" and to
show some of our capabilities. If you have a special caller in mind,
give us a call, we may be able to bring your dream caller to life.
Check
back frequently as we will be adding more pictures soon.
 
Circa
1993
This
little unassuming transistor radio...we
mean game call...is very important in the history of FOXPRO. It was one
of our first attempts to make a small game call. This one played one
sound...a gray fox pup. It had one control, volume. This was built in
an old transistor radio housing. It used the cone speaker that came
with the radio. It is shown with the TX-200 to show its relative size.
 
Circa
1995
This
15 sound
"talker" was designed for people with speech handicaps. This was
designed to store 15 phrases to help these individuals communicate with
people that could not understand sign language. These phrases could be
recorded and changed at will utilizing the internal microphone. This
could also easily store animal sounds. It used an off the shelf keypad
and the same enclosure as the TX5-LR and TX-200 remote controls.
  
Circa
Spring/Summer 1996
This
small pocket
game call has four sounds, volume control, external speaker jack, and
four LED's to let you know which sound you are playing. It had
removable sound cards and if you look closely, you will see the name
Penntek which stood for Pennsylvania Technology. Penntek was a
predecessor of FOXPRO Inc. It is shown with the new "mini" for size
comparison.
Circa
1996
The
image above shows
a small shirt pocket wildlife caller. It has four sounds, volume
control and an external speaker jack. This is the same size housing as
the current TX5-LR and TX200 remote controls.
Circa
October 1996
The
image above shows an amplified remote speaker.
Circa
2000
This
little trap bait
caller made a great bird sound, but at that time it was found to be too
cost prohibitive to manufacture for that market. We may have to take
another look at this product.
Circa
2001
This
non-remote power
amp was designed to be used with external audio sources such as a CD
player, cassette player, etc. It features an on/off volume control,
audio input jack, external speaker jack, pilot light, and runs on four
'AA' batteries.
Circa
2003 - 2004
This
Adapt-A-Call was
designed as a remote controlled amplifier. It runs on four 'AA'
batteries, has a decoy jack, pilot lamp, audio input jack and a speaker
jack. It used a transmitter very similar to that of the modern AR4.
  
Circa
Spring 2004
The
pictures above
show a sample of various motors that we have evaluated for our product
line. The PVC bird decoy was one of our first attempts at creating a
motorized decoy before the Jack-in-the-Box. Lack of a place to store
the decoy topper was a disadvantage of this design. We are still
looking at manufacturing smaller decoys.
 
Circa
Late 2004 - Early 2005
The
decoy shown above
also has a model 416LR game caller inside and also has a cone speaker.
We were very busy working on the new FX3 during the time and this
conceptual product was put on the back-burner for a later date.
Circa
Spring 2005
This
conceptual 416
bird version was designed for government owl studies. They wanted a
lightweight caller that could reproduce owl sounds.
We
also made a more
popular version using the same enclosure as the bird caller above. For
this external speaker version we ported the enclosure to make a
phenomonal owl speaker that could be used with their existing 48, 416,
and 532 model game calls.
Circa
Spring 2006
Shortly after
evaluating the
speaker that would become the SP-FR1, we were toying with the idea of a
caller based on that speaker flush-mounted in an ammo-box and the FX3
electronics. We are considering the marketability of a similar unit.
Circa
Spring 2006
We received a request
from a
prestigious southern university to design a game calling system that
could control up to 32 FX3's individually with one TX-5LR remote. We
were able to successfully accomplish this task.
Update
(Spring 2007): We successfully updated their calling
system to work with one TX200.
Circa
Fall 2006
This
prototype "Call
Box" was designed as the result of many requests by various government
agencies. This unit was in the field for a ten month field trial. The
features include: ability to change sounds, start delay, user
adjustable play time, user adjustable play wait time, user adjustable
initial delay timer, and day/night or night only operation. This caller
would run for days and days without changing or charging the batteries.
Because of this successful field study and ongoing requests for this
type of product, we will most likely produce this unit and add a few
features including day only operation, USB port, charge jack, solar
charger, etc.
 
Circa
Summer 2007
Here
is a version of
the "mini" that features a decoy and ten 'AA' batteries. Again, there
is no place to store the topper. This products fate is yet to be
determined. Perhaps a 2D top will be considered and a nice carry pouch
to store it all in.
Various
Large Game Callers
Here
are five examples of large game callers that we have made.
The
first one on the left will be released at a later date. We are not
ready to release any more details at this point.
The
second caller is
a caller based on the SP-108. We did not like this form factor. Here is
a second image showing a side view of this caller:
The
third caller can be read about earlier on this page.
The
fourth caller is
the Prairie Blaster. This caller has great form factor, flush-mounted
SP-55, and a 4" cone speaker. This unit will be avaialble for late
October delivery and will sell for $699 with the TX-200 remote control,
100 sounds and many of the same features as the new Scorpion model
X1-A. More details to follow.
 
Preliminary photos - more to follow.
The
last caller is
for existing Snow-Crow-Pro (both SC3 and SC5 version) owners. We can
convert your Snow-Crow-Pro to be an SCP+ portable unit with no external
speakers to carry along. Price of the upgrade is $119. This upgrade
also includes two switches to turn the internal speakers on or off.
This unit can also be ordered new from the factory for:
*
$649 SC3+ with NEW internal speakers and no external SP-108SC speakers
* $799 SC3+ with NEW internal speakers and 2 external SP-108SC speakers
* $849 SC5+ with NEW internal speakers and no external SP-108SC speakers
* $999 SC5+ with NEW internal speakers and 2 external SP-108SC speakers
 
Deluxe
Snow-Crow-Pro
Here is another
version of
the Snow-Crow-Pro that features two internal SP-55 speakers, selector
switches to turn the internal speakers off, and four external speaker
jacks that can accomodate four SP-108SC speakers. The Deluxe
Snow-Crow-Pro has all the same great features as the SC5 including the
TX-200 remote control, 1GB of internal memory that allows storage of up
to 200 sounds, USB port, and more! With both SP-55 attached and a 8Ah
battery it weighs in at about 13.5lbs.
Various
Speakers
Here are a number of different compression drivers and tweeters that we have been evaluating.
"Mr.
Mister"
Circa Summer 2008 - Spring 2009
Mr. Mister is a remote controlled electronic
scent dispenser. This could be used for a wide variety of hunting
applications from deer to predator; the possibilities are endless! The
images above show the original bottle before and after being painted.
There is a built in charge jack for using rechargeable batteries and
the unit quickly connects to the AUX jack on your FOXPRO game call or
can be used as a stand-alone device. Check out the short video clip below to see it in action.
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