“hunting calls”

Shooting a bull as it comes stomping to your calls is an adrenaline rush, surely, but you need to be ready for silence. Here’s how to work your calls on low or mute.

Over the years the author has rattled bucks into point-blank distance many times. He’s here to tell you the practice works.

Hand calls shouldn’t be relegated to the dust bin just yet. Unlike an electronic call, a couple of calls around your neck provide an inexpensive, lightweight and simple-to-master orchestra of sounds on a predator hunt.

Sparkling sunshine, rainfall, snowstorms and particularly the wind all play a huge role in picking the location and hunting strategy of every setup.

Coyotes, like other predators, cannot resist a ringside seat to a good fight. So create the sounds of your own “fight club.” Yips, growls, barks—they all may work to lure a member of a local coyote family bickering among itself.

Thanks to changes in elk behavior due to land use, development, human encroachment and more, the elk we hunt today do not behave as the species did in our granddaddies’ days. Here’s how to zero in on modern habitat where elk seek refuge, and how to hunt it.

A 75-percent sized version of the Wapiti Whacker, the Little Big Mouth still has plenty of features to speak of.

Follow these tips to adjust your strategy weekly to take advantage of pre-rut, breeding and post-rut elk behavior to up your odds of success.

To get that gobbler alert and talking, check out the Classic Owl Call, from Primos. With an incredibly loud tone, this is a call that will carry even on days with poor, windy conditions.