#BULL ELK CALLING HOW TO#

Our original design the Elk Reel changed the game forever.The hinging action makes a natural sliding note. We wanted perfection, we spent years perfecting the sound so that we couldn’t pick it out from real animals. In our opinion most calls can only really imitate Cow elk not duplicate them.

And last but not least to sound like the Bull Elk and Cow Elk we’ve spent so much time being around. To be small and fit in your mouth and your pocket while not being fragile. Easy to learn and not be a push button monotone with no volume control. We could never find a call that did several things. Therefore no matter what we tried to use there was a huge obvious void. Traditional cow elk calls were something we always found lacking. How much time and money do we spend on a single hunt chasing Wapiti? We don’t ever want our calls to ever be the reason that big boy spooked! While not having the chance of a call making a bad sound at the worst possible time. There is no doubt that with our patented Elk Reel you will make amazingly accurate Cow Elk vocalizations.

#BULL ELK CALLING HOW TO#

Plus this article is a little more on calling strategy and a lot less on how to actually operate a call. There is a reason we haven’t rushed to make any. Open reeds and Diaphragms are far less complex to manufacture. If we felt it would help us to hunt elk more efficiently we’d make some of the traditional designs to carry. We also feel we’d be doing you a disservice to discuss stuff we no longer carry on our person when we hunt. We will save that topic for a future article. However in this article we strictly talk about tactics and strategy on how to use our Cow Elk calls. We do that quite commonly during the September Elk Seasons. Not that you can’t bugle with an Elk Reel mind you. Elk reel is simple to use, has the best accurate sound and performs at a bar raising level. We are renowned in the elk hunting world as the company with the best cow elk call. If I'm calling and he's the shooter, I'll sit him in closer to the bull and I'll stay back and try to aggravate the bull to come in closer.Use Cow Elk Calls How to use Cow Elk Calls by Drew Rouse You do have that chance of spooking that bull, but that happens every time you hunt. Another strategy we might take is just separating.

Like my dad said, sometimes we are hunting together. When the cow calls and estrus calls haven't worked and we start getting more aggressive with the bull calls.

SKRE Gear® Elk Bundle will ensure you have a layering system that will help you succeed as you chase big bulls.Īlright guys, so like we said that's kind of when we're getting more aggressive. I'll be the hunter over here and I'm going to copy him, so you can kind of get an idea. Thomas is going to step down and be the bull. And we're really challenging the bull. So we're going to demonstrate that a little bit. We're going in and a lot of times we'll move in a little closer when we start doing this. There is a chance in that scenario that you could intimidate a bull, but at this point we are really getting after it. Then about the fourth or fifth time we'll just interrupt his bugle with our bugle and step right on him. We'll keep copying him three or four times. If he bugles once and grunts three times, we'll bugle once and grunt three times. We'll do things like raking trees and we'll copy-cat a bull. It really helps bring that bull in. But if he's still hung up out there, that's when we start getting aggressive. When you have a bull hanging up, that is always a great call to bring out. It's Tom and Thomas from Mile High Note Game Calls with another quick tip from the elk calling woods. If you were with us last week, we talked about the estrus call.

Bull elk calling