03-28-2019, 04:58 AM
I started to call this post " Bugling Elk" because calling bull elk in close is to me the funniest thing I have ever done. But I really didn't get good at it until the guy in Montana came up with the cow call. I drew out for the first muzzle loader elk tag that Utah had. And again two years after when I was eligible again. I had to be the first one to shoot two bulls with a ML. Anyway, that first Muzzle loader hunt I heard my first bull bugle. And have been in love with elk ever since. Lol
I said it then, I'll say it again. Calling elk in is better than sex.
I turned to bow hunting after that so I could keep hunting September. And hunted Colorado mostly but Utah and New Mexico also. I learned when to bugle and when not. I learned you can't, unless you're just offal at it; over cow call. I have two or three cow calls and a huchie mama (the hand operated cow call) around my neck at all times. I have had 50 bulls surround me at once one time. All within 20 yards,some I could touch if I dared move. I had a cow bend down and sniff my toe. I had a calf try scratching her nose on my nocked arrow. And another rub my back with her nose. One time at Ford Springs by Goslin Mt. And Flaming Gorge, I walked in with a huge herd of elk at night. With my cow call I mingled with the herd only inched away. I was scouting Antelope that time and the elk seemed to know I was harmless.
But what close encounters have you had with these great tasting animals?
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I said it then, I'll say it again. Calling elk in is better than sex.
I turned to bow hunting after that so I could keep hunting September. And hunted Colorado mostly but Utah and New Mexico also. I learned when to bugle and when not. I learned you can't, unless you're just offal at it; over cow call. I have two or three cow calls and a huchie mama (the hand operated cow call) around my neck at all times. I have had 50 bulls surround me at once one time. All within 20 yards,some I could touch if I dared move. I had a cow bend down and sniff my toe. I had a calf try scratching her nose on my nocked arrow. And another rub my back with her nose. One time at Ford Springs by Goslin Mt. And Flaming Gorge, I walked in with a huge herd of elk at night. With my cow call I mingled with the herd only inched away. I was scouting Antelope that time and the elk seemed to know I was harmless.
But what close encounters have you had with these great tasting animals?
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]not my brother). He must have thought that there was a big old fight going on or that another bull was angrily beating the tar out of a tree. A couple of days later my brother took a nice six point down in the hole where he had come from. That place was like a cattle pen so we couldn't be sure it was the same bull but it's nice to think maybe it was.
. So l started leaving it in my mouth as much as possible. All day long for about a week it was in my mouth or the side of my cheek. I was working alone in a boiler plant so I could practice and no one could hear. But the first two days I just kept it in my mouth. Not trying to call. Then after that I would switch it from my cheek to calling position and back again for two days. On the 5 day I could call good and it never gagged me again.