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Originally Posted by pikeslayer22
Extremely successful and my calling leaves a lot to be desired!!!!
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If you are truly calling in elk using blind calling techniques...as in just walking through elk country and hooking bulls up at different times through the season you are better at elk calling than you think.
Some of the lousiest sounding bugles I have ever heard came from real bulls...thats not the point... if you hear a lasy bugle ( more of a grunt than bugle) and you fire off the biggest baddest lip bawl most likely you wont see that elk...at least not in my area... but you certainly can work a lazy non responsive bull to full throttle by your calling.... done it many times.. learning how to entice a bull away from his cows in thick timber....most times they will just push their cows away...good calling is how you get them to try to push you off rather than running their cows outa the country....
Id say if your having success calling your doing something right...if your not having any success calling and your in good elk habitat.....you should evaluate your calling skills hunting techniques.
Its never a bad idea to try to get better at something.
If elk hunting was so easy and lousy callers could kill elk everytime they went out, success rates would not be where they are......
I do agree that calling is only one aspect of elk hunting..But good calling has definitely upped my success rate by 100s of percent.
I have hunted the same general patch of crown for 20 years. First 6 years i never even saw a live bull elk while " calling" I started getting serious about really developing that aspect of my techniques and I havent gone a season since where I dont call into bow range at least 4-5 bulls/ season. Starting in August and going right through Nov.. In fact I called in a bull on Nov 30th 8 years ago.