Here's a quick tip to improve your shooting, Remember to relax your bow hand as much as possible before shooting, any side pressure on the grip will cause your arrows to kick or cork screw. Also follow through after your shot. Keep the bow on the target until you know your arrow has reached its mark. A wrist sling will help to keep from dropping your bow. squeezing the trigger on your release so it fires by suprise will save you tons of problems and bad habits in the future. Also will shrink groups and put more trophies on the wall!
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ELK CALLING TECHNIQUES I've had several people ask how i call elk so here's a few of the things that have worked for me.
Determining what call to use when you are hunting elk is not a matter of what time of the year you are hunting, but which sex and age class elk you want to attract. I've called bulls in early season with a bugle when nothing was bugling. Spikes and raghorns like excitement and are usually curious to check out any kind of excited estrus call or a hyper call. Cows don't normally respond to any call, other than a Fighting Squeal, because they prefer to stay with the herd and their calves. However, lone cows may come to a Contact Mew, Cow Mew or other cow/calf calls to join a herd; or to the Bugle. Remember, it's the cow that chooses and responds to the bull. Older cows may respond to Distress Mews and Calf Mews out of maternal instinct.
Here's what i do that has worked for me,
1. start out with a simple quiet mew, mew 2-3 times and wait 5 minutes. face a different directions or change locations after a few calling sequences. to make it sound like you are moving, leaving,feeding...etc. Repeat this and do it a little louder as time goes on with no responses.
If a bull bugles immediately call back to him. If it works stick with what your doing.
2. If this doesn't work give them a small bull squeal. don't blow them off the mountain! try to make the bull sound farther away than the cow mews. this creates urgency and makes other bulls move in quicker. I like to try and create the perfect situation for a bull close by to sneak in unnoticed. I then go to a bugle cow call mixture. make it sound like several cows, short mews, longer mews, use your hand to throw your calls in different directions to sound like multiple cows. If you bugle and one responds immediately give it right back to him. if he chuckles i will chuckle, if he doesn't i don't. basically immitate him. Bulls will usually always circle downwind to come check out the situation so be ready to change position if needed.
3. Don't be affraid to make a little noise. elk are noisy when moving through the woods and will be on high alert if its to quiet. rakes some trees snap a stick or to. this has worked great for us over the years. Pay attention to what the bugling bull is doing if you get one to respond. If he's getting closer either set up a caller 80 yards back behind you or call several times and then move forward quickly. call slightly if need to keep him interested, do not call once you see the elk. He will pinpoint your location and know something is wrong when he sees nothing. make him look for you. A small cow call with your mouth mostly closed if needed to keep his attention but only when he is ready to leave. If he leaves don't give up. stay put, we have had bulls come back in several times on the same set up.
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