Sep 20, 2026 · 34 min · 10 segments
Kevin shares his intense elk hunting day, covering calling techniques, encounters with bears, and lessons learned from a challenging day in the backcountry. Key topics Calf calling and its…
So there's been a lot of stuff on the internet about don't like only do cow call, only do cow call, only do cow call.
Now listen, if you're hunting an area and you're able to call in nearly 70 bulls with a cow call, you're hunting an extremely high population dense area.
area there's a lot of bulls if you can call it like dude like dude i haven't even seen 70 bulls in the last 10 years like i i would bet that there's not even 70 bulls in the area i hunt like on the big area i hunt like probably you know like 70 bulls is a lot so i think and like i i don't want to I want to be very careful about how I approach this because there is a very important time and a place to calf call.
And I have found bulls, heard bulls, legal bulls using a calf call in specific situations.
situations i'm going to talk about situations where i've killed bulls or i've located bulls or i've located elk using a calf call because i really can't speak to how anybody else is using them in places where there is a shit ton of elk like if you're calling in nearly 70 bulls there's going to be a lot of bulls in that area it's not going to be It's not going to be the same as it is if you're hunting a place like I am, or like maybe you are, who or wherever you're listening from.
If you're in Alberta, BC, Saskatchewan as well, probably places along the border, Northern Idaho, Northern Washington, there is places that are very hard to call elk because they're very... unresponsive to calling they have a lot of human pressure they have low numbers there's a lot of predation a lot of pressure from predators and they just don't call so if i'm going into a new area i'm not going to just start cow calling just not going to start sorry i keep getting saying cow calling i mean calf calling i will cow call I am going to utilize location bugles, advertising bugles, and cow calls.
Now, if I know there is a herd of elk in a specific area, and it's, say, 10 o'clock in the morning, 11 o'clock in the morning, I will use a calf call.
Like I'm going to pick the sunny side of the hillside and I'm going to call into the shaded side of the hillside using calf calls.
What I'm trying to do is I'm trying to get those cows to advertise their location from their bedding area.
And I say that very with a grain of salt because I have had this before where a couple cows have left the group and the bedding area and came and busted me.
And once I get in real tight, I'm going to do some raking or I'm going to throw out a quick chuckle with like a challenge bugle or bark at the end of it.
So there's been a lot of stuff on the internet about don't like only do cow call, only do cow call, only do cow call.
Now listen, if you're hunting an area and you're able to call in nearly 70 bulls with a cow call, you're hunting an extremely high population dense area.
area there's a lot of bulls if you can call it like dude like dude i haven't even seen 70 bulls in the last 10 years like i i would bet that there's not even 70 bulls in the area i hunt like on the big area i hunt like probably you know like 70 bulls is a lot so i think and like i i don't want to I want to be very careful about how I approach this because there is a very important time and a place to calf call.
And I have found bulls, heard bulls, legal bulls using a calf call in specific situations.
situations i'm going to talk about situations where i've killed bulls or i've located bulls or i've located elk using a calf call because i really can't speak to how anybody else is using them in places where there is a shit ton of elk like if you're calling in nearly 70 bulls there's going to be a lot of bulls in that area it's not going to be It's not going to be the same as it is if you're hunting a place like I am, or like maybe you are, who or wherever you're listening from.
If you're in Alberta, BC, Saskatchewan as well, probably places along the border, Northern Idaho, Northern Washington, there is places that are very hard to call elk because they're very... unresponsive to calling they have a lot of human pressure they have low numbers there's a lot of predation a lot of pressure from predators and they just don't call so if i'm going into a new area i'm not going to just start cow calling just not going to start sorry i keep getting saying cow calling i mean calf calling i will cow call I am going to utilize location bugles, advertising bugles, and cow calls.
Now, if I know there is a herd of elk in a specific area, and it's, say, 10 o'clock in the morning, 11 o'clock in the morning, I will use a calf call.
Like I'm going to pick the sunny side of the hillside and I'm going to call into the shaded side of the hillside using calf calls.
What I'm trying to do is I'm trying to get those cows to advertise their location from their bedding area.
And I say that very with a grain of salt because I have had this before where a couple cows have left the group and the bedding area and came and busted me.
And once I get in real tight, I'm going to do some raking or I'm going to throw out a quick chuckle with like a challenge bugle or bark at the end of it.
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