Aggressive calling and raking

[Drawnandpinned]

Hey guys I have a quick question who will be aggressive calling and raking and if u have luck with this and when would u say its most effective pre rut or rut ect. I wanna try some aggressive calling and just wanted some input

[Pop-r]

I absolutely LOVE aggressive calling (mostly bugling) but raking also & will be doing such! All in an effort to piss off my intended target as bad as I possibly can! I have alot of luck with it if I can get in the right scenario. It will work when a bull has cow's & wants to protect them (amongst other's) whether that be pre rut or rut. Distance is key here!!

[Glacier Country]

This was October 26th. But the same scenario has played out for us from September 1st to late October. I had to shorten this clip to fit it on the Forum. But I located this bull with a bugle,I don't think I ever cow called with this bull. Turn up your speakers.

[ElkNut1]

Bryan, here's a real life story from a hunter that emailed me with his success. This is the story in his words he sent me! I'm guessing this may be a bit of what you are trying to accomplish yourself this year! (grin) >>>>>

ElkNut1


Hey Paul,
I don't know if you remember me or not. You stopped by my camp on >>>>>>>>> a couple of weeks ago. I enjoyed meeting you. You gave us a quick seminar on some calling techniques and I put some to use. I harvested a fantastic bull this last Saturday. I had to fight off some old bad habits. This is my 14th elk in 16 years but he is the largest I've taken. Just makes me wonder how many I could have harvested if only I'd known then what I know now. If you shoot me your email I'll attach a photo. My wife is now hooked she was with me and got to see it unfold. It was fantastic. Hope you are having some success this year. Hope to see you out there.
Good luck and thanks again. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>



Hi Paul,
Here is the picture of this years fine representation of the species. My wife and I located this bull early Saturday and any attempt at getting close to him while calling failed. He just kept moving away as so many times they do any time you pressure them. We let him calm down and called to him from about a mile away. He had obviously bedded down but was still talking to us some. I was able to get a pretty good idea on his location. He put himself in a pretty good spot. There was really no good way to reach him from below without being spotted, so the hike was on. A short four hours later and some serious verticle we slipped in above him. I waited until we were within about a hundred yards of him. I gave him a short bugle. Like you said, call the cows. He immediatelly started rounding his cows with the calls you had spoke to us about. I turned up the heat on him. I stomped and smashed anything I could find. Literally ran in another thirty or so yards and racked a tree followed by a short bugle. That's when he really got excited. Went into a long chuckle and followed that up with a rake of his own. I spotted his cows and they were actually coming our direction. I called to them again followed up by an excited cow call. That was too much for him to handle and he marched straight up through a meadow. Which they NEVER do. I realized the wind had changed and was blowing directly into my shooting lane. But like you said, he was seeing red. He hit that lane and picked up my scent, stopped in his tracks but instead of taking off like a rifle round, gave me enough time to sink one home. He ran about eighty yards. In years passed I would have just waited, quietly and called. I don't know how many times I've been in the same situation and just watched the heard leave. I put some of your tips to work, against everything I've done in passed years and it worked out great. I'll be back up next week with my brother and we'll put it to the test again. I'll let you know how it works out. Thanks again for the tips. Stop in and say hello if you're up that way. We will probably be camped in the same spot.
By the way I used your cow rattle a couple of days after we spoke and called in six cows. Worked great. I don't know how many times that I've known I was close to elk only to have them move off without ever seeing them. I think you may have created a monster.
My wife is now hooked. She has never been that close to an elk heard. Not to mention see a nice bull taken with a bow. Now I've got to get her a bow. Thanks for that. LOL
Thanks again, Good luck with your hunt.

[twinkieman]

Prior to knowing anything about Elknut,in 2008, I used this calling method to kill a nice bull. I got on a herd, 10 cows, and a herd bull, no satellites that I could see or hear. I moved in to 200 yds. and cow called( I know to far). the herd and bull would respond, but never came any closer. I dogged them, across a valley and up into some thick timber. Got into 100 yds., and tried again. I got the same result, they just continued to move away. Once again I dogged them, into a small open meadow. They were about 80 yds. , with me still in timber. I decided, no cow calling this time, I bugled, and took a limb and soundly thrashed a tree. The bull came unglued and screamed. I bugled back, doing my best to mimic him. I waited about 1 min, and started to rake again, and as I was watching the direction I had last heard the bull from, a single tree about 30 yds. from me started shaking, I stopped raking and my bull was the source of the tree's shaking, and limbs being torn off. I bugled again, and he started right at me. He went around a large fir tree at 10 yds., and I drew. When he came around the tree I had a quartering to shot. I released my arrow as he stepped closer to me, and I would like to say I made a perfect shot, but I didn't(bull fever I guess) . I knew I only got one lung, I waited and did recover him later.