Phelps- Amp grey & Amp white
As other have said. Practice
I also recommend the ElkNut app.
Phelps- Amp grey & Amp white
As other have said. Practice
I also recommend the ElkNut app.
Wayne Carlton, various mouth Reed diaphragms, and a grunt tube.
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Good advice here.
I've evolved through all the calls over the years. Presently I use the Phelps products. The Amp reeds.
As stated above, there is no one call. Most calls can work, but more important is timing and location.
I pack about 6 reeds with me (of course I have my go to) and I carry about 10 hand held calls with me. Some loud, some quiet. Like fishing lures, changing up a call from panicked and searching, to soft, to erotic, to aggressive can make the difference and turn a bull.
Learn to identify the situation you find yourself in and the call appropriate for that moment.
I have no talent so I use a hootchie mama cow call. I know it’s basic but I have had some pretty good luck. Bulls have come in from a ways off. Timing is key.
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i wouldn't over think it. Bull elk at the right time will come to pretty much anything. Even someone pulling on a chainsaw.
Go to Can Tire, buy the 2 pack Hoochie Momma calls for 39.99. They are 39.99 for just the Cow call alone anywhere else.
Sorry I sent before finishing my reply.
The two pack is a cow call and a calf call, those two and I maka da bull crazy calls have worked for me. Just keep changing them up. Best buy is the CanTire two pack.
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Well, this all depends.
Lots of folks, the 1st time around, cant use a reed without some serious practice.
So, for a cow call, i like the Primos Hyper Lip.
It sounds like like the Primos Hoochie Mama, but way more reliable!!
BUT, it is fairly quiet.
Also, Buglin Bulls make a cow call by hand (cant think of the name or #), but is louder if you get the plastic version. (think it
comes in wood as well?)
As for a diaphragm call, a cow call is way easier to learn, so any Primos or HS or Wayne Carleton or Buglin Bulls cow call reed
will do, not a big difference, imo.
Now, for bulls, and using a diaphragm call, i only use the Wayne Carleton Tone Trough these days....period.
I like it in a 2.5, but that is me.
Now, if you dont use a diaphragm for bull call, then there are many bugles out there.
Most common would be Primos or Thunder Bugle.
I like the Buglin Bulls stuff myself.
And yes, Abe and Son make one too!
I cant say about how their mouthpiece part of the call works, but have always been interested in buying their product for the
tube and chamber they have designed on there.
One other cow call would be Primos I maka da bull crazy (something like that).
Orange is quiet, the green is louder and for longer range, fyi.
I like the Phelps calls with a tube... I totally suck at calling though. Gotta start practicing again in the truck where people can't hear me! LOL At least I'm not chocking on them now... getting there.
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Great Thread. I have been practicing in my truck as well. I have a couple phelps reeds. i think i have the cow calls down. I need to pickup a bugle tube soon.
I have used all sorts of external calls and bugles. i have had good success, but it like others have said practice.practice.practice!
i think variety is best for calling. make it sounds like you are more than one cow. Don't sounds like the biggest bull otherwise you limit your challengers...