elk calls

[duckhunt]

I was just watching RMEF elk calling championship on youtube and a thought crossed my mind. I havent been elk hunting yet so im not sure how it sounds in the wild, but I was wondering how many hunters have been fooled by another hunter making calls when thinking it was a real elk. Come on guys, I want to hear some stories.

 

[noharleyyet]

Just over a decade ago during my first elk foray, everything (crows, squirrels skittering...etc) sounded like elk to this dumbass Texan..mostly because I wanted it to be so. I did muff an opportunity on a decent first bull thinking I could stop it with a well known squeeze call.





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[npaden]

I've called in other hunters, I've come VERY close to sneaking up on another hunter who was calling but never done it, but I had a nice bull shot out from under me because I was positive that it was another hunter bugling because there was no way that crappy sounding bugle was coming from a real elk.

 

[MThuntr]

I called in a guy from Minnesota this fall with a cow call. His bugle sounded like someone gut punched him. all I can say is that I'm glad it was archery season!

 

[nidahunter]

I have called people in, and have lost opportunities at shots because I could have sworn that donkey-braying terrible sound could not have possibly been an elk until it walked out. You never know, but I have learned that it is worth the possible embarrassment of coming in to someone calling to make sure it is not an elk. Some elk just don't sound like elk.

 

[LCH]

Yet to go elk hunting, but I do like to practice my bugling outside at night to bewilder my neighbors..