Peak Design Travel Tripod: (best lightweight tripods for hunting)īOG DeathGrip Tripods: (best tripod for hunting) Vortex Tripod: (best tripods for coyote hunting) I heard people who sound like a text bull elk bugle, and still can't call in an elk.Primos Trigger Stick Gen 3 Tall Tripod: (best hunting tripod) All elk sound different so don't be ashamed of your call. They will let you know what they are used to. Most of all when you are in the spot to watch and listen to the elk in your neck of the woods do and pay attention. If you see a lone bull, get below him and try to sound like a small heard, cupping your hand back and forth on both sides of your mouth to through the direction of your voice. If you bust up a heard try as I did, it might work for you. My first nice bull, during this hunt I learned that it is not about the perfect elk call, it's about the tone and the presentation at the time. Then he slowed and took about three half steps back and then as he tried to walk forward then fell over. I sat down and watched him after he kicked his legs and took off for about fifty to sixty yards. My heart raced, I could hardly keep from yelling out with excitement. I let out another short call and he stopped turned his head looking almost at me quartering away, THUD! I got him right in the engine room. I stopped calling and he ran right by me twenty feet. There he was bearing down right towards where I was standing. About maybe half a minute went by with me doing this, and elk started heading my direction. The wind was in my favor as I started calling trying to sound as the lead cow had been keeping the same tone I heard her calling, or at least as how I thought she had sounded. I tried to imitate the lead elk I had just heard the first time they got spooked. I ran over the ridge and as they were once again scattered in different directions. I thought I might be able to get between them and try calling to me. Thinking that they might head down to a thicket I had went through the previous day. Needless to say there were too many eyes and ears of other elk and I ended up spooking. As the bull kept bugling out I heard another long mmmmmEEEEEEEEEI was thinking oh man here he comes if I can just get another twenty yards down the draw I could get myself in a good shooting lane as he is heading towards the cow. Watching him on the next ridge over, I heard him let out a" RRRRRRRRRuuuuh" no chuckle at the end just a strong deep "I am Over Here".Īll the other elk were in a commotion not knowing where to go or what happened, they just knew something wasn't right when the other elk started running off. He was a nice even, long tined six point. Some went down the draw others went up on the side of the next ridge, as I sat and watched I seen him. The elk went in several different directions. The doe ran about fifty yards away from where the elk were standing, causing the elk to bust out of the draw. I turned over my shoulder and seen four coyotes chasing a small doe. Ten or so minutes went by after watching the cow and her calf, when I heard something moving pretty fast. Many of times I have gotten them to answer. So the short- non boisterous call is what I like to call the "just checking call" which works good when your close to elk and can small them but your just not sure where there at. It reminded me of how my mother used to call out my name, when we were at the park when we were kids, not alarmed or worried just one of those calls "Jesse", "what are you doing over there". I realized there the tone she used to locate her young. Finally noticing what she was doing, I realized that she was just calling on the young calf she had that was about fifty yards off playing in the meadow. While I was watching and listening I seen a cow grazing through the draw, and about every ten to fifteen seconds she would raise her head and give out a little Meeew, (or chirp as some people call them). Being that I did not see any bulls other than spikes (Martians as my father in-law would call them) I just watched listening to how they communicate with each other. Most of the elk were cows and calves meandering through the grassy, aspen filled draw without the slightest suspicion that they were being watched. Once I got behind this two hundred foot tall pine tree, I looked down and seen about 50 head of elk. After Deciding it was more than likely some elk down in the draw I crept up to a large pine tree that gave me the cover I needed, to glass down in the draw without being seen. I stopped for a second to make sure it wasn't a bird or maybe a far off tree squirrel. The sun wasn't fully over the top of the next ridge when I heard some cow elk chirping. I was just cresting up to the top of a small ridge in an area new to me. This is how I learned to call in elk and it has worked ever since.
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