elk calling

[idgaf]

You have roughly ten weeks to season starts. Get a few single, double, triple reed mouth calls and start practicing. Your neighbors will love you for it.

[naturegirl]

time to get practicing !

[rthrbhntng]

Check out this link for short calling videos from Steve Chappell.

http://www.chappellguideservice.com/elk_calls___products

[Heat]

I highly recommend Elknut's DVD's for elk. Paul breaks it down better then most.

[justinspe25]

Since were talking about calling elk. I have been wanting to ask a question and this looks like a good place...I think. I have a late Nov rifle bull hunt and i have been wondering if it will be useful\helpful to get a cow call for the late hunt? From what i have read before bugling isn't going to be effective, but i was curious about cow calls to get the attention of a moving bull.

 

Thanks,

[BASS]

Idgaf is right! Everyone at work hates me since tags came out! I've been blowing on diaphragms in the parking garage and hallways for months now! If youre ever in downtown Phoenix around three in the morning, you *may* hear some bugles, cow estrus and some turkey mixed in. ;0)

[Elkaddict]

Since were talking about calling elk. I have been wanting to ask a question and this looks like a good place...I think. I have a late Nov rifle bull hunt and i have been wondering if it will be useful\helpful to get a cow call for the late hunt? From what i have read before bugling isn't going to be effective, but i was curious about cow calls to get the attention of a moving bull.

 

Thanks,

Have a cow call handy at all times on the late hunt. I have stopped bulls from busting by doing a quick cow call, enough time to make the shot.

[idgaf]

I had the late archery hunt last year in 3c got into 3 or 4 days of hard rutting

[ready2hunt]

Thats good advice from elkaddict. From what I have learned in a seminar before is there are 3 phases to the Rocky Mt. Elk rut. The 3rd phase or round of the rut may or may not take place at all depending on the weather therefore its only smart to have a cow call handy.

 

More than anything like was previously mentioned it can just give you that crucial 3 sec window to make a bull freeze and allow you to squeeze off your shot.

 

Its all about practice like BASS is talking about. My family and I have done the Fall turkey hunt every year I can remember (if we were drawn of course) just to be up in the rut. Its all about practice.

[6ANut]

Since were talking about calling elk. I have been wanting to ask a question and this looks like a good place...I think. I have a late Nov rifle bull hunt and i have been wondering if it will be useful\helpful to get a cow call for the late hunt? From what i have read before bugling isn't going to be effective, but i was curious about cow calls to get the attention of a moving bull.

 

Thanks,

Have a cow call handy at all times on the late hunt. I have stopped bulls from busting by doing a quick cow call, enough time to make the shot.

 

 

 

Yes, a cow call helps in the Late hunt, couple of examples; when still hunting kick a rock or break a fallen limb, do a cow call and that seems to calm the game infront of me down. What I have experienced with elk if they smell you, it doesnt matter what you do all you will see is a yellow rump but you can make some noise and cover it up(cow call). Obviously, if your one of those hunters who cant walk quietly then your S.O.L. Also, as mentioned above I have seem them stop on a dead run to a cow call just in time to get a shot off, I have not seen that happen when someone will whistle at a moving bull. I feel the main reason for the cow call stopping elk in the later hunts is the fact that most of the elk are on the move(hunting pressure/weather) and not fimiliar with their surroundings.

[bigorange]

In my opinion the worst thing you can do is call too much. If they're bugling you won't have to call much...just locate them and get ahead of them if you can. Last year we saw a lot of bulls being pushed out by overuse of both bugles and cow calls which were obviously hunters. Bugling can help locate them if they're not making much noise but use sparingly.

[ultramag]

Lots of hunters call way to much. The elk will tell you that when you call and you find the elk are now moving away from you, but just keep calling anyway. You'll eventually get a satellite bull to come check you out.