my phelps call does it again!

[Kowsrule30]

I have complete faith in his cow calls...  I stopped cows that had spooked in their tracks..  they thought my fat ass was another elk evidently.... 

As always though, half the battle with calling elk is knowing how to use the call... how to use the right pitch...   right now, you use that "I am a hot hootchie momma looking for a bull" sound, you may not get much of a response...  you use the herd sounds (the mewing, calf calls, etc...  ) you are gonna get a response..

    I wonder if that works on the young adolescent guys just like in humans?!?!   Young guys fall for it but not the older guys with experience.

I've been really putting the calls to the test by trying to hit all the different sounds and pitches and so far they've held up better than anything i've used previously.  So again, Jphelps, you make some awesome calls.

Learning all the sounds is half the battle... the other half is knowing that even if slightly off pitch... you are still ok...  Not every elk sounds like the calls on a video or cd...  they vary as much as humans very in sound...  heck, I had a cow almost step on me while totally screwing around with my call once...  they are VERY curious as long as they do not smell you or see movement..

Exactly..... Dad and I had both tagged out on cow tags.... We were on our last trip down the mountain and took a break in the shade.... Started totally screwing around with a variety of 4 different calls.... I mean really screwing around.... Some even sounded like a duck it was so bad.... Next thing we know a decent 3x4 MD came in behind us..... Spooking us just as bad as him.... Then we looked up the sage hillside to see a herd of 12 elk with a 6x7 bull in the lead heading straight for us... Got within 10 yards searching for the sounds before making their way off into the timber....

[Huntbear]

Ive been listening to elknuts cds since the day i got them for xmas....i listen to them everyday..ive learned so much about calling.from them....they answered every question i had...i woukd reccomend anyone new to.calling to buy those cds

Agree deerhunter,,, but nothing still beats sneaking into a herd of cows, calves and spikes in the snow and fog, and just mingling using a call... until some wise ass has to sneeze and can not hold it back....  THEN, you are in the middle of a stampede of crazed spooked elk.. YOU HOPING you do not get bulldozed by a full grown elk with spike horns or sharp hooves....       one of the best 4 hours I ever spent in the woods...   

[deerhunter_98520]

Now that would be awsome