If Elias McMillan takes anything away from his recent experience at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation elk-calling championship, it's this: Sounding like an elk is sure different when it's judges, not ...

All elk hunters dream of a screaming bull that charges across a meadow and into bow range, hot steam still flowing from his nostrils. After all, calling in a bugling bull (or even just getting a ...

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I knew where I wanted to be based on experiences the season prior. That was the first time I’d bowhunted for elk in this mountain belt within Montana’s interior. I spotted a bull I on that trip during ...

Courtesy of Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Hearing an elk bugle in the wild can sound otherworldly: high pitched, but also guttural, sound, sometimes even seeming to have a metallic resonance. These ...

Elk sounds vary from grunts, screams and coos to something like an excited chimpanzee – a sound human elk callers refer to as “chuckling.” None of it sounds like something that would emanate from a 12 ...

Which elk call is best? Professional hunters have a substantial amount of gear that they use on a field trip. If you’re a novice hunter, you don’t need every piece that professional hunters do, but ...

VERNONIA, Ore. — Three years after going pro, a Vernonia man is now world champion in elk calling. Last weekend in Montana, Tony Gilbertson took home the top prize in the professional division in a ...