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05-20-2008, 07:21 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Canby
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What kind of elk calls do you use
Me i use diaphram calls i use bugling bull calls both diaphram and bugles. I also have a couple primso calls. What do you guys use?
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05-20-2008, 07:28 AM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Lebanon, OR
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
Diaphram calls work best for me.....can make alot more realistic sounds. I can tell a primos terminator or abe & sons bugle a long ways away. Also use the primos hyper lip........ 
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05-20-2008, 07:28 AM
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Chromer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Oregon City
Posts: 682
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
I use a Primos pack bugle as is or with a diaphram depending on what sound I want, Primos mouth reeds, Primos Cowgirl, Hoochie Mama.
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05-20-2008, 07:49 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: McMinnville...GO CATS!
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
Primos palate plate, any color. And just gimme any tube to blow them through.
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05-20-2008, 08:25 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Hillsboro Oregon
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
Larry Jones reeds what can I say I started with his and will use them until they are no longer aval. I have already bought this years supply I usually go though a couple chewing on them swallowing them  or loosing them trying to get them into my case in a hurry. I will break in all the new ones a few weeks before the season blowing them on my way to work.
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05-20-2008, 08:35 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Beaverton,OR
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
Since I'm not an archery guy, all I need is a cow call to stop them for a look back or to cover a misplaced step and limb crack.
So I use my turkey mouth calls. Heck you look at the triple reed elk calls and many look just like an old raspy boss hen.
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05-20-2008, 08:58 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 2,261
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
I use Primos diaphram calls, Primos Bull horn, and primos hyper lips.
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05-20-2008, 10:07 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Hillsboro
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
Mouth reeds--check
Custom bugle--similar to Deep Timber sounds--check
Hoochie Mama--check
Squeeze me--check
"The Duck"--check
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05-20-2008, 01:59 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Tillamook OR.
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
everyone ever made and a few home made 
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05-20-2008, 02:10 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
Alfalfa when the hunting gets tough
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05-20-2008, 02:26 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Canby
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
Quote:
Originally Posted by beardbuster
Alfalfa when the hunting gets tough
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LOL...
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05-20-2008, 02:31 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Oregon city
Posts: 2,513
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
diaphrams for bugling and cow chirps, hyper lip single and double
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05-20-2008, 02:35 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Clackamas River
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
I still use a couple Primos calls. The pack/spike bugle is a classic.
I prefer the Rocky's Mountain diaphrams to the Primos, although I use both. I actually started with the RMs and now I'm back! The Mellow Yellow Mama is my new favorite. I just like sounding different than everyone else.
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05-20-2008, 02:58 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
Bugle - Modified Abe and Sons
Cow Calls - Primos Hyper lip
Modified Hyper Hot
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05-27-2008, 01:35 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
The most effective elk bugle I've ever used is to whistle between my thumbs like I learned to do when I was a kid. It doesn't sound like a elk (to me), but they always respond...sometimes aggresively. When elk get wary of commercial calls and begin sneeking around quietly we really tone down our calling. I locate by tracks then call by breaking sticks (you have to know how to break a stick right) and a few very quiet cow/calf/bugle noises. The secret is to not be aggressive...just normal herd noises. Breaking sticks as you walk through the woods will allow you to walk right into a herd, but, then you are sort of trapped when you suddenly see them and they see you, but its a good way to get close. Its not so important to spend a lot of money on this fancy gimmick or that one, but to use a simple diaphram that you can operate easily to sound like a cow/ calf/ bull, or turkey, a simple grunt tube, and then go out and listen to elk. They make many sounds...some really wierd. Can you pant out loud for two minutes...weeeeeeeeeeeeuh-uh-uh-uh-uh-pant-pant-pant-pant, etc. for two minutes-pant-pant-pant. Can you bugle so softly it won't carry much beyond 50 yards? Rutting bulls make some really wierd noises you just have to hear. You can call elk without financing the manufaturers retirement in the tropics.
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05-27-2008, 04:51 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Oregon City
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
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Originally Posted by Charlie Storey
The most effective elk bugle I've ever used is to whistle between my thumbs like I learned to do when I was a kid. It doesn't sound like a elk (to me), but they always respond...sometimes aggresively. When elk get wary of commercial calls and begin sneeking around quietly we really tone down our calling. I locate by tracks then call by breaking sticks (you have to know how to break a stick right) and a few very quiet cow/calf/bugle noises. The secret is to not be aggressive...just normal herd noises. Breaking sticks as you walk through the woods will allow you to walk right into a herd, but, then you are sort of trapped when you suddenly see them and they see you, but its a good way to get close. Its not so important to spend a lot of money on this fancy gimmick or that one, but to use a simple diaphram that you can operate easily to sound like a cow/ calf/ bull, or turkey, a simple grunt tube, and then go out and listen to elk. They make many sounds...some really wierd. Can you pant out loud for two minutes...weeeeeeeeeeeeuh-uh-uh-uh-uh-pant-pant-pant-pant, etc. for two minutes-pant-pant-pant. Can you bugle so softly it won't carry much beyond 50 yards? Rutting bulls make some really wierd noises you just have to hear. You can call elk without financing the manufaturers retirement in the tropics.
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A guy that I work with does this too. He's pretty successful at calling elk in. He's shown me how to do it but I can't for the life of me.
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05-27-2008, 06:16 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Pendleton, Or
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
I make my own reed diaphram calls and use a fairly ridgid piece of spiraled radiator type hose for the bugle !!!!!!!
Works Great!!!
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05-27-2008, 06:31 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: in the treetops by who goosed the moose
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
My first elk bugle was homemade out of a piece of garden hose and a plug I whittled out of a piece of cedar. Called in a bull in the Cascades with it back in the late 70's. 
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05-27-2008, 09:29 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Hermiston Oregon
Posts: 1,899
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
primo's pack bugle, diaphram calls, hot lips, and what ever the larger bugle that prinos makes. I like the diaphram calls the best.
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05-28-2008, 06:30 AM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Kennewick, WA
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
I use the primos Hyper single and double. Sometimes together, most times alternating.
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05-28-2008, 07:09 AM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Colton, Or
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
Over the weekend I called a cow elk with a fawn distress call...looking for a coyote.
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05-28-2008, 10:34 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Tigard,Oregon
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
Cow Calling- Hoochi Mommmmmmmmma...
Bugle- Abe and Sons
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Last edited by Nw dukn; 05-28-2008 at 10:36 AM.
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05-28-2008, 11:32 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Hillsboro Oregon
Posts: 7,787
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
One of the best calls and it is free a stick and a tree
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05-28-2008, 11:34 AM
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Fry
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
I use berry mouth reeds, primos hoochie mama,and a berry bugle
works great!
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05-31-2008, 10:51 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 1,078
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Re: What kind of elk calls do you use
Quote:
Originally Posted by sliverpicker
My first elk bugle was homemade out of a piece of garden hose and a plug I whittled out of a piece of cedar. Called in a bull in the Cascades with it back in the late 70's. |
I remember those days. If you were really good you could get 3 notes out of a "whistle" (which is what they were). I don't remember if we ever called anything in, but it was cool to go hunting with that home made thing.
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