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Then stalk in close enough to get the shot. Through the years, we've called in very few big elk. But if you'll use the call to learn where the bull is positioned, then you can rely totally on your stalking skills to get in closer to get a shot. More than likely, the bull you want to take won't be bugling. He'll be giving a low, deep growl. The growlers are the trophy bulls.
7 Understand the wind to take a big bull. I use Scent-A-Way products to keep from spooking elk downwind of me. However, when I'm going to a big bull, I want the wind in my face. Remember that when the sun is up, you need to get above the elk and hunt down to him, because the drafts (thermals) will come up the mountain
and carry your scent to the elk; and, if you're going to an elk before daylight,
and the elk are below you,
you'll spook the elk you're trying to take. Instead, get below the
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heard the bull give one grunt. That grunt told me the bull was in the area, but that he wouldn't come to where I was calling. We closed the distance to him from about 200 yards, and within 10 min utes, the bull came walking to us with half a spruce tree hanging in his antlers. My bowhunter took this 6x7 bull when the elk was 17 yards away from him. We hunted in the bedding area, we were patient enough to wait until the bull let us know where
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he was, we got close to him, and he finally came to us.
6 Call and Stalk. You've heard the term spot and stalk. My son, Mark, and I have developed what we believe is a better term: call and stalk. You don't have to see the elk to go to him, but you do have to know where he is. Identify where the elk is by using a bugle or a cow call. Next, put your call in your pocket, and don't use it anymore.
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