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MOUNTAIN_HUNTER
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Who here uses them and what brand of call is it?
Most important question. Do they work?
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Most important question. Do they work?
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Trophymossback
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E.L.K. Inc. makes the best deer call we have ever used,and it works great!
Their Company name is Eastman, Laurbach Kreations, Inc, Box 85, Main Street, Gardiner, Mt. 59030. Phone: (406)848-7655.
My hunting partner and I have used their Mule Deer Call for about five years. We have taken a number of bucks that we would not have harvested without our Deer Calls.
I am about to order their Elk Call. These guys a Biologists and have developed these calls after a ton of research.
Give them a try!
TM
Their Company name is Eastman, Laurbach Kreations, Inc, Box 85, Main Street, Gardiner, Mt. 59030. Phone: (406)848-7655.
My hunting partner and I have used their Mule Deer Call for about five years. We have taken a number of bucks that we would not have harvested without our Deer Calls.
I am about to order their Elk Call. These guys a Biologists and have developed these calls after a ton of research.
Give them a try!
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MOUNTAIN_HUNTER
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TM
Thanks for the reply.
Anyone else use any other brands?
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Thanks for the reply.
Anyone else use any other brands?
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NMHUNTNUTT1
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I also have that call . I used it on a January bow hunt in central NM a few years back. Wow , I was amazed how well it worked , I'd heard you couldn't call mule deer. Well I ended shooting a nice little fork that hung up with a bunch of doe , long enough to let me dile in. The very next year we hunted a private ranch unit 4 northern NM. Myself , my dad and two other friends. I told them and showed them the call , they pretty much laughed at me. We were hunting a great ranch with lots of deer and knew I'd have my chance to prove em wrong.Deer herd after deer herd , this call made me look stupid. By the end of the first day my dad told me not to use it anymore and my partners threatened me.I did hold up a coyote long enough to watch my friend lace an arrow about 80 or so yards through the dog , very amazing shot, but never blew the call again. I still have it and will try it, but can't figure out why the deer down south were so acceptant of it and the northern deer scattered, both hunts were in January...Puzzled.
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kbuckthomas88
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I was on a guided hunt in Wyoming back in 1996 and 1997,
all the guides carried cow elk calls, to help with getting
a buck to raise out of their beds, also to stop, a buck
when running, I bought a Sceery Ace cow call, and have used
it since 1998, it has helped stop running bucks, 160"-170"
bucks, every year in Colorado, along with my binoculars,
I have my cow elk call, try it, it works!
KBUCK
all the guides carried cow elk calls, to help with getting
a buck to raise out of their beds, also to stop, a buck
when running, I bought a Sceery Ace cow call, and have used
it since 1998, it has helped stop running bucks, 160"-170"
bucks, every year in Colorado, along with my binoculars,
I have my cow elk call, try it, it works!
KBUCK
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canhunter
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Just a grunt tube works great and is easy to use. I use a Primos MD, but have used some cheap ones. Just calms them or makes them take a look instead of bolting. Seems like the stud bucks don't respond as well as the younger bucks to calling including horn rattling.
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prarierocket
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LAST EDITED ON Jun-16-07 AT 04:34PM (MST)[p]I have and use the E.L.K. brand deer, elk and antelope calls, as well as the Calls-M-All game call. The elk and antelope are more vocal than the deer(in my experience), and seem to attract better. When mule deer hunting, I try to use either the elk or deer call only when trying to go through very thick and noisy timber areas where visibility is low. My theory is that if they hear me, but hear an elk or deer calling from the same location they won't leave the area thinking I'm just another animal. I've had small forkhorns run out of the trees up to 5 ft of me before they turn tail and leave the area. The elk call has only seemed to keep them calm allowing me to get in amongst them. The Calls-M-All call is great for versatility and a different voice if you want to mix it up.
muzzhunter
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I was on a scouting trip a few years back and had heard that deer will come to a cow call, so we saw a little forky and we tried it. He froze for about 3 seconds, then turned around and bolted. Then a doe came up out of some thick brush to the side of us. We hadn't seen her before, so we kept calling. She kept on charging in and then kinda dancing around at about 10 yards pacing back and forth. We were under a tree and I don't know if she could see us and didn't know what we were or what. It was kind cool. Haven't tried it much since though.
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swecology
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LAST EDITED ON Jun-25-07 AT 11:58AM (MST)[p]I have used the elk-inc. Deer Stopper call with success on coues whitetail. It doesn't seem to be species-specific. I would recommend it in a heartbeat!
MuskegMan
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FWIW - I've used calls quite a bit on blacktails (also works on brown and black bears - from personal experience!) The calls I use are handmade fawn bleats. This call will call does at anytime of the year. It has helped with bucks in August. They would otherwise stay bedded down - blowing the call got them up out of their beds in cover.
Now when the rut is on (Halloween to Thanksgiving - Vet's day peak) blacktails does come like magnets. Just wait for the buck on her tail. I will be bringing this call with me to Colorado for 2nd season in a limited area, so we'll see.
Lohman makes the K'meer Deer call. It's supposed to work on whitetails and muleys. Not a fawn bleat or grunt, but a vocalization call. I've tried it, but it takes a varying amount of biting pressure to make the "right" sound. I can only hit the right note less than 50% of the time, so I'm too worried about scaring animals off.
I never hunt deer without one.
Now when the rut is on (Halloween to Thanksgiving - Vet's day peak) blacktails does come like magnets. Just wait for the buck on her tail. I will be bringing this call with me to Colorado for 2nd season in a limited area, so we'll see.
Lohman makes the K'meer Deer call. It's supposed to work on whitetails and muleys. Not a fawn bleat or grunt, but a vocalization call. I've tried it, but it takes a varying amount of biting pressure to make the "right" sound. I can only hit the right note less than 50% of the time, so I'm too worried about scaring animals off.
I never hunt deer without one.
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tmbrlinewarden
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LAST EDITED ON Jul-03-07 AT 11:50PM (MST)[p]I've used the E.L.K call a bunch and try it for effect whenever I run across deer in the field year round. It's worth it's weight in gold when watching/glassing large groups of deer at distance, and when you hit it you'll find deer rushing out of the woodwork that you hadn't seen. I've found Fall bucks to be generally uninterested in vocalization calls but they will stand up and take a peek, or step out from behind a tree to check it out, without being "spooked" by it (from a distance).
It's likely that it's just my awful calling, but I've never had it do anything but make a deer bolt when used within 50 yards. Works great getting game to freeze when buggered, but so does a whistle.
I've done a lot of work in my career darting deer, and have found that most effective way to actually call deer into dart (bow) range is a predator call and have used it to great effect. (young bucks and does). Only problem is that you can't pick and choose which deer it will bring in, I mean it's like coyote calling- you do it all day and you'll get some deer in to dart, but if you spot a deer to try and call it in, it may have positive/negative effect, and in a hunting situation may not be a chance worth taking. If your out of options, give it a shot.
If you're a call fanatic like me, definately get the E.L.K call and practice with it. I recommend buying their "instruction" video too.
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It's likely that it's just my awful calling, but I've never had it do anything but make a deer bolt when used within 50 yards. Works great getting game to freeze when buggered, but so does a whistle.
I've done a lot of work in my career darting deer, and have found that most effective way to actually call deer into dart (bow) range is a predator call and have used it to great effect. (young bucks and does). Only problem is that you can't pick and choose which deer it will bring in, I mean it's like coyote calling- you do it all day and you'll get some deer in to dart, but if you spot a deer to try and call it in, it may have positive/negative effect, and in a hunting situation may not be a chance worth taking. If your out of options, give it a shot.
If you're a call fanatic like me, definately get the E.L.K call and practice with it. I recommend buying their "instruction" video too.
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NM Operation Game Thief 1-800-432-4263
?I want as game protectors men of courage, resolution, and hardihood, who can handle the rifle, ax, and paddle; who can camp out in summer or winter; who can go on snowshoes if necessary; who can go through the woods by day or night without regard to trails" Theodore Roosevelt-1899
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